Quotes About Dominance

We must acknowledge, of course, that what looks like failure to us Americans outside the privileged elite may not actually be failure for our overlords.

When a belief becomes dominant in American psychological circles one can be sure of one thing: that belief refers to something that no longer exists.

Do you feel like a man when you push her around? Do you feel better as she falls to the ground?

The weaker are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.

So what made you think you could just take a life and push it around? I guess to build yourself up so high, you had to take her, and break her down.

Confidence is nothing when you aren't the best.

You are the common denominator of your life, take charge, you are the boss.

When a person feels powerless in regard to controlling his life, he can defend against the discomfort of such an experience by asserting control over someone else.

There was always a leader. He was not the largest, and he need not be the captain, but he was the one they looked to for instruction in their cruelty. He had a cold eye and a coiling tension. Like a snake, the poets might say, but I knew snakes better by then.

Even in her pain, she commanded the room, drawing all the light to herself, leeching the world around her pale as mushrooms.

I can veil the sky itself. Just try to watch me.

first blood was ours, spilt by the god-like prince of Phthia.

Ero cresciuta ai piedi di mio padre e sapevo riconoscere lo sfoggio di potere quando me lo ritrovavo davanti.

There are no bargains between lions and men. I will kill you and eat you raw.

His rage was so hot the air bent and wavered around him. "I can end you with a thought." It was my oldest fear, that white annihilation. I felt it shiver through me. But enough. At last, enough.

Il ressemblait à un orage d'été, dont la foudre illumine le ciel pâle. En sa présence, tout le reste s'estompait.

He was large, but I was a goddess, and we were of a height. "I need your cloak," I said to him, "and your tunic, at once." His eyes narrowed, and I could see the reflexive no in them. I would come to know this type of man, jealous of his little power, to whom I was only a woman.

I have the same goal I've had since I was a girl. I want to rule the world.

Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.

I only have 'yes' men around me. Who needs 'no' men?

Freedom} is certainly not the right to own the economic, social, political, or cultural capital in order to dominate others and trade their happiness in a monopolistic market. Freedom is the process by which you develop a practice for being unavailable for servitude. -Avery F Gordon paraphrasing Toni Cade Bambara p.42

a large and ever-expanding range at the bullies' disposal.

And I wonder---if everything's connected, does that mean that everything can be manipulated and controlled centrally by those who know how to pull strings. . . .

Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power.