Quotes About Dominance

My week beats your year.

I am the state.

A reprodução das relações de produção não pode deixar de ser o empreendimento de uma classe. Ela se realiza ao longo de uma luta de classes que opõe a classe dominante à classe explorada.

What people do for power. How they're willing to mutilate themselves, physically, intellectually, morally, for power and position.

Chief Superintendent Arnot might hold power, but Armand Gamache was the more powerful man.

the one-eyed man is king,

We see it when bullies are in charge.

Like whites in South Africa or the Southern states who knew that things had changed, who even accepted the changes, but who couldn't quite shake the certainty deeply, diplomatically, hidden, that they should still be in charge.

There's no tyrant like a brain.

If I could have a superpower, it'd be the ability to make all my enemies change their minds and see things MY way.

more than other senses, the eye objectifies and masters. it sets at a distance, maintains the distance. in our culture, the predominance of the look over smell, taste, touch, hearing, has brought about an improverishment of bodily relations...the moment domin ates the look dominates, the body loses its materiality" -luce irigaray

Let them hate so long as they fear.

Let them hate so long as they fear. (Oderint Dum Metuant)

Wherever the Roman conquers, there he dwells.

The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are.

In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.

Nobody ever recommended a dictatorship aiming at ends other than those he himself approved. He who advocates dictatorship always advocates the unrestricted rule of his own will, although operated by an intermediary, an amanuensis. He wants a dictator made in his own image.

Political ideas that have dominated the public's mind for decades cannot be refuted through rational arguments. They must run their course in life and cannot collapse otherwise than in great catastrophe…

The state is essentially an apparatus of compulsion and coercion. The characteristic feature of its activities is to compel people through the application or the threat of force to behave otherwise than they would like to behave.

Chi è incapace di servire il prossimo, vuole dominarlo.

Chi sostiene un sistema schiavistico non si ferma mai a riflettere su come egli stesso potrebbe diventarne vittima.

Nobody ever recommended a dictatorship aiming at ends other than those he himself approved. He who advocates dictatorship always advocates the unrestricted rule of his own will

The highest ranking wolf in the pack isn't the one that uses brute force. It's the one who can, and chooses not to.

The catch was this: Power always involved loss of humanity.