Quotes About Dominance

The most awful thing about power is not that it corrupts absolutely but that it makes people so utterly boring, so predictable.

Perhaps down in his heart Okonkwo was not a cruel man. But his whole life was dominated by fear, the fear of failure and of weakness. It was deeper and more intimate that the fear of evil and capricious gods and of magic, the fear of the forest, and of the forces of nature, malevolent, red in tooth and claw. Okonkwo's fear was greater than these. It was not external but lay deep within himself.

Habits are either the best of servants or the worst of masters.

Humanity increased its degree of control over nature, but at the price of most people becoming subject to control and exploitation by privileged minority groups.

It's kind of like... It's kind of like playin' a basketball game. I am there and the other player is there, and it's just the two of us and I put the other player's body in my van. And I am the winner.

Black people dominate sports in the United States - 20 percent of the population and 90 percent of the Final Four. We own this sh*t. Basketball, baseball, football, golf, tennis, and as soon as they make a heated hockey rink we'll take that sh*t too.

I think my best work is when I'm kind of in charge.

You got a gun, you don't have to work out.

Black people dominate sports in the United States. 20% of the population and 90% of the final four.

When you permit an outside agency to control your feelings and emotions at frequent intervals for a prolonged period, your system will soon get into the habit of submitting to the control of this outside agency, and will not respond any longer to any effort that the will may make to regain its original power of control.

Care, admitted as guest, quickly turns to be master.

I intend to marry Michael, and squander all his money and run his life, and make sure he never again consorts with wicked women or gambles with licentious men. I promise I will henpeck him until he has no life beyond what I allow him, and when we die, I will lie in his arms through all eternity.

subjugating opponents, what the Romans termed Vae victis (Woe to the conquered).

Le sexe est simplement un marqueur de la division sociale [hiérarchique de genre] ; il sert à reconnaître et identifier les dominants des dominé[e]s

Today there are about six thousand languages in the world, and half of the world's population speaks only ten of them. English is the single most dominant of these ten.

These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.

It seems to be almost inevitable that the man who accepts a subordinate economic position in the Family degenerates into a loafer and a tyrant.

allowing the maintenance of dictatorial "impunity".

The hawk had caught me. It was never the other way around.

Being powerful is so much more interesting than being beautiful.

Our exchanges always seem to turn into whatever he wants them to.

We live in an age when the mice are hunting the cats...nobody knows who are the mice and who the cats.

Tu nous domines de silence, Tu nous hantes d'éternité.

We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels.