Quotes About Dominance

Slowly the increasing complexity of tools and trades subjected the unskilled or weak to the skilled or strong; every invention was a new weapon in the hands of the strong, and further strengthened them in their mastery and use of the weak.

a handful of might is better than a bagful of right.

War is a nation's way of eating.

justice is the interest of the stronger

Political society has made the many the property of the few.

Powers is the greatest aphrodisiac. -Nicole Muldoon

One rule for the lion and ox is oppression.

India has always had a strange way with her conquerors. In defeat, she beckons them in, then slowly seduces, assimilates and transforms them.

On the road, as in many other aspects of Indian life, Might is Right.

I reckon I'll be at the beck and call of folks with money all my life, but thank God I won't ever again have to be at the beck and call of every son of a bitch who's got two cents to buy a stamp.

You tell 'em, big boy; treat 'em rough.

Case had always taken it for granted that the real bosses, the kingpins in a given industry, would be both more and less than people.

She wondered how powerful money could actually be, if one had enough of it, really enough. She supposed that only the Vireks of the world could really know, and very likely they were functionally incapable of knowing; asking Virek would be like interrogating a fish in order to learn more about water.

Are you familiar with the strategic concept of competitive control areas?" Ash asked. "Yes," Stets said.

Imagine an alien, Fox said, who's come here to identify the planet's dominant form of intelligence. The alien has s look, then chooses. What do you think he picks? I probably shrugged. The zaibatsus, Fox said, the multinationals. The blood of a zaibatsu is information, not people. The structure is independent of the individual lives that comprise it. Corporation as life form. Not the Edge lecture again, I said.

terror should remain the sole prerogative of the state.

His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.

Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!

Hitler, always at his best when he detected weakness in an opponent

He would make Germany strong again

Prussia," remarked Mirabeau, "is not a state with an army, but an army with a state.

Goebbels was sure of one thing, though: "Once we have the power we will never give it up. They will have to carry our dead bodies out of the ministries.

And here I find the great distinction between the faith of the Indian and the white man. Indian faith sought the harmony of man with his surroundings, the other sought the dominance of surroundings.

It is a jungle where hierarchies of infinities tower like prehistoric beasts.