Quotes About Dominance

The obstinacy on which power is based is never so fragile as in the moment of its triumph.

Under the law established by the possessor of the greatest number of devices, sickness and the sick will flourish.

If people would know how little brain is ruling the world, they would die of fear.

Dictatorship is power based directly upon force and unrestricted by any laws.

Perhaps the future belongs to magic, and it's we women who control magic.

There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.

There are certain things that come along that take precedence over all other events, like natural catastrophes, car accidents, and unexpected meetings with rockstars. These things suck you entirely and leave no room for you to wonder how bored or worried other people might be while you are so completely engaged.

The moment sex ceases to be a servant it becomes a tyrant.

When one man says, "No, I won't," Rome begins to fear.

History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon?

History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon?

Britain alone controlled almost a fifth of the world.

wealth is power" – not because wealth automatically gives its owner political power, but because it gives him or her control of other people's labour.

I know what cancer was. How is it like humankind?" Sek Hardeen's perfectly modulated, softly accented tones showed a hint of agitation. "We have spread out through the galaxy like cancer cells through a living body, Duré. We multiply without thought to the countless life forms that must die or be pushed aside so that we may breed and flourish. We eradicate competing forms of intelligent life.

In this painting the artist has become more dominant than his subjects

All men would be tyrants if they could.

It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.

Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.

The major in charge of this little collection of Quonset huts and planes in the hills controlled six and a half times World War II's worth of firepower.

human beings come into the world with a passion for control, they go out of the world the same way

human beings come into the world with a passion for control

Written language, invented by the Greeks around 550 B.C.E., has helped reinforce left hemisphere dominance (at least in the West) and created what Harvard classicist Eric Havelock called "the alphabetic mind."7 So perhaps it's no surprise, then, that the left hemisphere has dominated the game. It's the only side that knows how to write the rules.

Viv Richards, a man who put the ire into fire, the ow into power and the fucking fury into fucking fury.

Today, music is produced by few and consumed by many. But this is a situation of such historical and cultural rarity that it should hardly be considered. The dominant mode of musicality throughout the world and throughout history has been communal and participatory.