Quotes About Dominance

Ten thousand years ago, humans plus their pets and livestock accounted for about 0.1% of the terrestrial vertebrate biomass inhabiting the earth; we now account for 98%.

In terms of development, very young children are right-hemisphere dominant, especially during their first three years.

A vile and overbearing temper becomes sometimes, in one long accustomed to the exercise of power, unendurable to those who are subject to its humors.

There has to be that feeling in a good villain - that he's awesome, he has his own power; that he is, in several senses, unstoppable.

They are superpower of villains. They are superpower of Al Capone.

Symbolic violence is violence wielded with tacit complicity between its victims and its agents, insofar as both remain unconscious of submitting to or wielding it.

Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.

Violence has always been unfortunately embedded in masculinity, this alpha thing.

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

The world is ruled by violence, or at least the imminent threat of violence. It always has been.

Philosophers are people who do violence, but have no army at their disposal, and so subjugate the world by locking it into a system.

War is an attempt of one group to impose its will upon another group by armed violence.

In this world, people are violent toward people that they feel are conceptualized as smaller than them. It's an impulse that we have.

Our society constantly promotes role models for masculinity, from superheroes to politicians, where the concept of being a 'man' is based in their ability to be tough, dominant - and even violent when required.

Football is a violent, competitive game. That's the way it was always meant to be played. You are supposed to play with an edge. You are actually supposed to impose your will on the other person to win.

I've always been a dominant and violent person.

All signs point to there being many virtual and augmented reality competitors, and not just a single, dominant company.

I think people don't realise that running a piece of code that verifies some conditions for a financial transaction, that by itself is a lot less work than verifying a cryptographic signature, and so even if the virtual machine is inefficient, the cryptographic signature is still going to dominate.

The only secret to being in control is to have it in the beginning. Retaining control is still hard, but obtaining control is virtually impossible.

Virtually no other state concentrates as much political, economic and cultural power in its capital city. Even Paris is less economically dominant than London and its hinterland.

Amare, Carmelo Anthony, Chauncey Billups - they're virtually unstoppable.

It was interesting to find how dominating American vision is all over the world. I think there's something to be said about the world's mindset and its economics and all of that, and I think it affects the way we see ourselves and it affects music.

We were always drawing comics as kids. My brother Charles made me draw comics. I was very much under his domination. He was actually a much stronger artistic visionary than I was.

There will be sway.