Quotes About Dominance

Horsepower sells cars, torque wins races

Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.

He who has the bigger stick has the better chance of imposing his definitions of reality.

se había engañado a sí misma al dejarse convencer, por un momento, de que los seres humanos no se dividen en exterminadores y exterminados, y que los exterminadores tienden a colocarse en la situación dominante en cuanto pueden. La fuerza de voluntad es inútil si no se va a algún lado.

Everything we knew from life suggested that America would do what it liked ...

The biggest evildoers in the world, the ones who do what's not right, are the ones who have all the power, and that's what makes it right. It's right not 'cause you say so, or I say, or even if the Lord on high says so. It's right 'cause them what's got the money and the power, they say it's right, and that makes it right even if it's dead wrong. Dead wrong.

all power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely").

In Washington, it is far more important to be feared than loved.

Michael was more likely to break through his attackers with his power and strength.

The Celtics were so dominant in the 1960s that Jerry West stopped wearing anything green because it reminded him of the frustration the Lakers had endured during that decade.

In a one-party system there is always a landslide.

She makes life over, he realized. She controls life, whereas I just sit on my can and let it happen to me.

It horrified him, this thought: the ancient gigantic cannibal near-man flourishing now, ruling the world once more. We spent a million years escaping him, Frink thought, and now he's back. And not merely as the adversary . . . but as the master.

Do you know what the true basis of political power is? Not guns or troops but the ability to get others to do what you want them to do. By whatever means are appropriate.

I think they should be the rulers,' Juliana said, pausing. 'They always were the best. The British.

All his life he had controlled machines, bent nature and the forces of nature to man and man's needs. The human race had slowly evolved until it was in a position to operate things, run them as it saw fit. Now all at once it had been plunged back down the ladder again, prostrate before a Power against which they were children.

Looking at him I felt as if I had just met a powerful gorilla while at the same time being in possession of the world's last banana.

There he dwelt, a prisoner acting like a king.

Asriel was a tall man with powerful shoulders, a fierce dark face, and eyes that seemed to flash and glitter with savage laughter. It was a face to be dominated by, or to fight: never a face to patronize or pity. All his movements were large and perfectly balanced, like those of a wild animal, and when he appeared in a room like this, he seemed a wild animal held in a cage too small for it.

Like a wave that has been building it's strength over a thousand miles of ocean, and which makes little stir in the deep water, but which, when it reaches the shallows rears itself high up into the sky, terrifying the shore dwellers, before crashing down on land with irresistible power - so Iorek Byrnison rose up against Iofur, exploding upward from his firm footing on the dry rock and slashing with a ferocious left hand at the exposed jaw of Iofur Raknison.

Lord Asriel was a tall man with powerful shoulders, a fierce dark face, and eyes that seemed to flash and glitter with savage laughter. It was a face to be dominated by, or to fight: never a face to patronize or pity. All his movements were large and perfectly balanced, like those of a wild animal, and when he appeared in a room like this, he seemed a wild animal held in a cage too small for it.

Bullies love to summarize.

I know what a plantation is, Mr. Legree—I mean, Mr. Levov. I know what it means to run a plantation. You take good care of your niggers. Of course you do. It's called paternal capitalism. You own 'em, you sleep with 'em, and when you're finished with 'em you toss 'em out. Lynch 'em only when necessary.

To a modern mind, hegemonic liberty is an idea at war with itself.