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Quotes About Dominance

She took the castle and hanged the captain from the walls of the battlements.
~ John Guy
England was so much richer and more powerful than its northern neighbor.
~ John Guy
outnumbering her opponents by five to one.
~ John Guy
Identification is domination.
~ Unknown
The core concept in Griffin's writings about racism—that members of dominant groups tend to view minorities, because they seem different in some extrinsic way, as intrinsically other, and "as merely underdeveloped versions of their own imprisoning culture"—was intuited in Black Like Me and articulated in a seminal essay, "The Intrinsic Other
~ John Howard Griffin
He also knew that rivals are best unmanned by being ignored.
~ John Irving
What we witnessed with the death of Kennedy was the triumph of television; what we saw with his assassination, and with his funeral, was the beginning of television's dominance of our culture-- for television is at its most solemnly self-serving and at its mesmerizing best when it is depicting the untimely deaths of the chosen and the golden. It is as witness to the butchery of heroes in their prime-- and of all holy-seeming innocents-- that televisions achieves its deplorable greatness.
~ John Irving
For once the battle station is fully operational, you will wield the ultimate power in the galaxy." Tarkin
~ John Jackson Miller
Controlling nothing. Consider that! The youngling and the aged experience it — the struggle with ineffectuality. Controlling nothing is the true death. But I have come back from the dead. And through me, the Empire will control everything.
~ John Jackson Miller
This was how the Empire would conquer and rule, he thought: through might and fear. The
~ John Jackson Miller
Already he was polishing a few carefully worded accusations designed to reduce his mother to repentance or, at least, confusion. He often had to keep her in her place.
~ John Kennedy Toole
He lunged at the glove, deflowering it, stabbing it, conquering it.
~ John Kennedy Toole
NON SUFFICIT ORBIS," a medal struck for Philip proclaimed in 1583, after he'd taken over Portugal and its overseas colonies: "The World Is Not Enough.
~ John Lewis Gaddis
The ideal may seem remote of execution, but the democratic ideal of education is a farcical yet tragic delusion except as the ideal more and more dominates our public system of education.
~ John Dewey
The purpose of the environmental movement is to establish control over the people.
~ Kent Hovind
Our intellect has created a new world that dominates nature, and has populated it with monstrous machines.
~ Carl Jung
If human equality is to be forever averted -- if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently -- then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity.
~ George Orwell
There is no equality without coercion.
~ Unknown
Dominating others is not equality.
~ Christina Engela, Loderunner
Always define your area of excellence. Establish the area where you will be the best.
~ Farrah Gray
Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.
~ Edsger Dijkstra
Power, from the standpoint of experience, is merely the relation that exists between the expression of someone's will and the execution of that will by others.
~ Leo Tolstoy
What is there in being able to say that one has dominated the stream in an attitude of self-defense; in proving that one has had the experience of carrying a stick?
~ Marianne Moore
It is not sufficient that I succeed - all others must fail.
~ Genghis Khan