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Quotes About Dominance

The Baron had become her slave: whatever she demanded of him he carried out with pleasure. When her humour so decreed, he would lie at her feet like a slave..., like a dog!
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Whoever was in her presence trembled before her, and the more she made herself feared, the more it delighted her, the more it seemed to make her feel happy.
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
And the cruel woman ordered that the Derevlian Kniaz's arms and legs be severed. For the rest of his life he was to stay under her table and gather the breadcrumbs with his tongue.
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
The more the woman shows herself submissive, the quicker the man becomes bored and overbearing; but the crueler and more faithless she is, the more she mistreats him, the more frivolously she plays with him and the less mercy she shows, the more she excites the lust of the man and is loved and worshiped by him. It was like that in all eras Ã¢â'¬â€œ from Helen and Delilah to Catherine the Great and Lola Montez
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
You are the sort of man who could quite ruin a woman
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
For the time being there is only one alternative: to be the hammer or the anvil.
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
La mujer que no hace del hombre su súbdito, su esclavo, ¿qué digo?, su juguete, y que no le traiciona riendo, es una loca.
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
it was important for the people to understand that all around them lay human slavery, although most recently it had been called by other names. Everyone was or had been a slave to some other person or to something that was controlled by another. Most people were not free.
~ Leslie Marmon Silko
You mean to make me beg for it?" "Not at all, my lord. I mean to keep it
~ Leslie S. Klinger
was so easy to ignore people when you understood how little power they really had over you—he
~ Lev Grossman
And now we are going to put our Jimmy Choo so far up your ass, your going to taste next season.
~ Lev Grossman
it was so easy to ignore people when you understood how little power they really had over you—
~ Lev Grossman
Their little dance was like the endgame of a disastrously bloody chess match, just a queen chasing a beleaguered king around an empty board, sadistically refusing to checkmate.
~ Lev Grossman
We reduce things to mere Nature in order that we may "conquer" them.
~ lewis c s ii
But instead of freeing labor, the royal mega-machine boasted of imprisoning and enslaving it.
~ Lewis Mumford
The megamachine is an elephant that fears even the smallest mouse.
~ Lewis Mumford
The great secret of centralized power was secrecy itself. That holds of all totalitarian states down to our own day.
~ Lewis Mumford
Control over the use of one's ideas really constitutes control over other people's lives; and it is usually used to make their lives more difficult.
~ Richard Stallman
The Premier League used to be two teams going for the title, but it has come on a long way since then.
~ Aaron Ramsey
In my opinion, any navy less than that which would give us the habitual command of our own coast and seas would be little short of useless.
~ John C. Calhoun
Closed environments dominated the computing world of the 1970s and early '80s. An operating system written for a Hewlett-Packard computer ran only on H.P. computers; I.B.M. controlled its software from chips up to the user interfaces.
~ Ellen Ullman
Ever since I started using guys, I feel so much better about myself. I feel so much more powerful.
~ Cardi B
You kind of alluded to it in your introduction. I mean, for the last 300 or so years, the exact sciences have been dominated by what is really a good idea, which is the idea that one can describe the natural world using mathematical equations.
~ Stephen Wolfram
In contrast, once food can be stockpiled, a political elite can gain control of food produced by others, assert the right of taxation, escape the need to feed itself, and engage full-time in political activities.
~ Jared Diamond