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Quotes About Dominance

Remember: what consumes us, controls us. As
~ Lysa TerKeurst
A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. Neither are a people any the less slaves because permitted periodically to choose new masters. What makes them slaves is the fact that they now are, and are always hereafter to be, in the hands of men whose power over them is, and always is to be, absolute and irresponsible.6
~ Lysander Spooner
only those who have the will and the power to shoot down their fellow men, are the real rulers in this, as in all other (so-called) civilized countries; for by no others will civilized men be robbed, or enslaved.
~ Lysander Spooner
N'importe quel groupe de scélérats, pourvu qu'ils aient assez d'argent pour l'entreprendre, peuvent décider qu'ils sont un gouvernement; car, pourvu qu'ils aient de l'argent, ils peuvent engager des soldats, et utiliser ces soldats pour extorquer davantage d'argent, et ainsi contraindre tout le monde à obéir à leurs volontés.
~ Lysander Spooner
Theoretical economists use their mathematical prowess the way the great stags of the forest use their antlers: to do battle with one another and to establish dominance.
~ Unknown
Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.
~ Unknown
A Máquina era que matava os homens porém os homens é que mandavam na Máquina...
~ Unknown
I always win because I live this life by my terms and conditions
~ Unknown
No serious politician has proposed putting America second. The goal is not the issue. What separates Trump from every president since the dismal trio of Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover is his conception of how America's interests are best advanced. He conceives of the world as a battlefield in which every country is intent on dominating every other; where nations compete like real estate developers to ruin rivals and squeeze every penny of profit out of deals.
~ Madeleine K. Albright
MUSSOLINI OBSERVED THAT IN SEEKING TO ACCUMULATE POWER, it is wise to do so in the manner of one plucking a chicken—feather by feather—so each squawk is heard apart from every other and the whole process is kept as muted as possible.
~ Madeleine K. Albright
with the rights of others, and is willing to use violence and whatever other means are necessary to achieve the goals he or she might have.
~ Madeleine K. Albright
When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Then I learned that I could bend the world to my will, as a bow is bent for an arrow. I would have done that toil a thousand times to keep such power in my hands.
~ Madeline Miller
They do not care if you are good. They barely care if you are wicked. The only thing that makes them listen is power.
~ Madeline Miller
Our men liked conquest; they did not trust a man who was conquered himself.
~ Madeline Miller
I had felt untouchable, filled with teeth and power.
~ Madeline Miller
Then I learned that I could bend the world to my will, as a bow is bent for an arrow. I would have done that toil a thousand times to keep such power in my hands. I thought: this is how Zeus felt when he first lifted the thunderbolt.
~ Madeline Miller
It was like a great chain of fear, I thought. Zeus at the top and my father just behind. Then Zeus' siblings and children, then my uncles, and on down through all the ranks of river-gods and brine-lords and Furies and Winds and Graces, until it came to the bottom where we sat, nymphs and mortals both, each eyeing the other.
~ Madeline Miller
she was not ruled by appetites; she ruled with them instead.
~ Madeline Miller
Then I learned that I could bend the world to my will, as a bow is bent for an arrow.
~ Madeline Miller
Killing a whole family was something to boast of, a glorious deed that proved you powerful enough to wipe a name from the earth.
~ Madeline Miller
they won't fear you as they fear the rest of us.
~ Madeline Miller
So potent however is the concentrated love of the feminine heart, that although this man, sitting there above her, had just beheld—actually in the flesh—that elusive Mystery which was the cause of Glastonbury's being Glastonbury, it was the girl and not the man who dominated that moment, her exultation, and not his, that held the thunder-flash of that charged air.
~ John Cowper Powys
No le importa lo que yo digo y lo que siento. Mis sentimientos no significan nada para él. El hecho que le importa es que me tiene en su poder.
~ John Fowles