Quotes About Dominance

The people who control this country are the real gangsters. You know that, right? And if you play by their rules, you're nothing but their slave.

Achilles pauses, looks over his shoulder at the masses of men behind him, turns back, looks past Zeus toward Olympos and the masses of gods in front of him, and then crooks his neck to look up again at towering Zeus. Surrender now, says Achilles, and we'll spare your goddesses' lives so they can be our slaves and courtesans.

Agamemnon: Our prayer was simple — to raze Ilium's walls to its roots, kill its heroes, rape its women, enslave its people. Is that too much to ask?

All humans feed on violence, on the small exercises of power over another, but few have tasted—as we have—the ultimate power.

Ogni forma di violenza è potere, signor Luczak.

The roof was torn off the gym. God's way of telling the jocks that they'd better remember who's really charge.

In any interaction the more high-power person tends to focus his or her gaze on the other person less than others, and is more likely to interrupt and to monopolize the conversation—all signifying a lack of attention.

History is written by the winners

Only slaves love being powerful. HANS ERICH NOSSACK

Because the Empire controls the media, we can turn any news to the Emperor's advantage.

For four decades, U.S. energy policy was dominated—and its foreign policy hobbled—by the specter of shortage and vulnerability

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

Various Turkish people invaded southwest Asia during the Middle Ages and carved an empire for themselves from lands occupied by the indigenous Semitic and Indo-European inhabitants.

Rome alone can resist Rome.

Keep cool and you command everybody.

Anger is an emotion preeminently serviceable for the display of power.

The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself anymore. Anger is. And when anger is the boss, you get unintended consequences.

If the white man has inflicted the wound of racism upon black men, the cost has been that he would receive the mirror image of that wound into himself. As the master, or as a member of the dominant race, he has felt little compulsion to acknowledge or speak of it; the more painful it has grown the more deeply he has hidden it within himself. But the wound is there, and is a profound disorder, as great a damage in his mind as it is in his society.

An infinitely greedy sovereign is afoot in the universe, staking his claims.

TALIBAN-ESQUE Any behavior that imposes the beliefs of one person on everyone else. Conversations with the Taliban-esque are impossible. They aren't even conversations. WIth them, it's my way or no way.

They have been taught nothing but destruction and learned nothing except that a man's desires can be achieved simply by killing anybody who stands in his way.

There is no natural order. Only rules that one race invents to make the other serve its uses.

The rod of iron with which he rules her never appears in company--it is a private rod, and is always kept upstairs.

To rulers religion, like almost everything else, is a tool of power.