Quotes About Dominance

The moment a man claims a right to control the will of a fellow being by physical force, he is at heart a slaveholder.

It the British System is the most gigantic system of slavery the world has yet seen, and therefore it is that freedom gradually disappears from every country over which England is enabled to obtain control.

Lo! Men have become the tools of their tools.

The one aim of these financiers is world control by the creation of inextinguishable debt.

Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.

In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.

For the greatest part of humanity and the longest periods of history, empire has been the typical mode of government.

Who controls money control the world.

Almost all empires were created by force, but none can be sustained by it. Universal rule, to last, needs to translate force into obligation. Otherwise, the energies of the rulers will be exhausted in maintaining their dominance at the expense of their ability to shape the future, which is the ultimate task of statesmanship. Empires persist if repression gives way to consensus.

Where Western strategists reflect on the means to assemble superior power at the decisive point, Sun Tzu addresses the means of building a dominant political and psychological position, such that the outcome of a conflict becomes a foregone conclusion. Western strategists test their maxims by victories in battles; Sun Tzu tests by victories where battles have become unnecessary.

Almost all empires were created by force, but none can be sustained by it. Universal rule, to last, needs to translate force into obligation. Otherwise, the energies of the rulers will be exhausted in maintaining their dominance at the expense of their ability to shape the future, which is the ultimate task of statesmanship. Empires persist if repression gives way to consensus. So

The Art of War articulates a doctrine less of territorial conquest than of psychological dominance; it was the way the North Vietnamese fought America

What is new about the emerging world order is that, for the first time, the United States can neither withdraw from the world nor dominate it.

Who controls the money controls the world

Power is the great aphrodisiac.

la dependencia de la coerción es síntoma de un liderazgo inadecuado

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Voting is simply a way of determining which side is the stronger without putting it to the test of fighting

History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men.

Knowledge is power, and power is the possession of influence over the minds and actions of others.

If it's a man's world, as they say, then men: your world is a poorly run carnage fest.

Though some say youth doth rule me.

Power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand.

What energy!' I thought. 'Man has conquered everything, and destroyed millions of plants, yet this one won't submit.