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Quotes About Dominance

Victory is by nature insolent and haughty.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
The drive for control, or the perception thereof, is truly the strongest force in human nature.
~ Tom Peters
A lion does not become king of the jungle hunting mice.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Man will destroy what man fears!
~ Nadina Boun
The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
~ Anthony Trollope
They loved their country largely because they controlled it.
~ Tom Clancy, Executive Orders
I like to grasp the initiative and not give my opponent peace of mind.
~ Mikhail Tal
There is no peace now, and there will never be peace, so long as one rules over another.
~ Voltairine de Cleyre
Peace is not the absence of conflict it is authority over chaos.
~ Danny Silk
In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.
~ Ludwig von Mises, Liberalism
To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
~ Tacitus
Peace through superior firepower.
~ John Ringo
There are questions of real power and then there are questions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authority to begin to fight the real questions of power.
~ Karen Nussbaum
The visual impact of a United States battleship springs from its ability to put Soviet ships on the bottom of the sea and to put devastating firepower ashore - nothing else.
~ John Lehman
War has become a mode of sovereignty and rule, eroding the distinction between war and peace.
~ Henry Giroux
'Peace through Strength' only works if you have and show strength.
~ Rand Paul
Education about gender and peace is important. Educational strategies to promote peace must consider all relations of dominance.
~ Widad Akreyi
Once the computers got control, we might never get it back. We would survive at their sufferance. If we're lucky, they might decide to keep us as pets.
~ Marvin Minsky
Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.
~ David Hume
My old man had a philosophy: peace means having a bigger stick than the other guy.
~ Robert Downey, Jr.
Politically, the goal of today's dominant trend is statism. Philosophically, the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically, it is the erosion of ambition.
~ Ayn Rand
I don't discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I'm not interested in philosophy classes.
~ Al McGuire
It's all about control.
~ Anthony T. Hincks