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Quotes About Dominance

Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
~ Baron de Montesquieu
Power is the pivot on which everything hinges. He who has the power is always right; the weaker is always wrong.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Islam is under obligation to gain power over all nations.
~ Ibn Khaldun
It is the nature of Islam to dominate, not to be dominated, to impose its law on all nations and to extend its power to the entire planet.
~ Hassan al-Banna
Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.
~ Thomas Hobbes
There is only one thing in this world, and that is to keep acquiring money and more money, power and more power. All the rest is meaningless.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
A lioness has got a lot more power than the lion likes to think she has.
~ Jacki Weaver
Anarchy is the stepping stone to absolute power.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
The only thing power respects, is power.
~ Malcolm X
Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world.
~ Henry A. Kissinger
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
~ Charles de Gaulle
I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else.
~ John Locke
If you were to come to Minnesota, I could have you locked up like that. That's power.
~ Jesse Ventura
The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
~ Tacitus
The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.
~ Adolf Hitler
All the power's in the hands of people rich enough to buy it.
~ Joe Strummer
We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.
~ George Orwell, 1984
The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
~ Thomas Paine
When I came to Mogadishu...here was one road built by the Italians. If you try to force me to stand down, I will leave the city as I found it. I came to power with a gun; only the gun can make me go.
~ Siad Barre
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
~ Charles de Secondat
No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
~ Plutarch
People in power need to control others in order to maintain power. One of the ways to do that is to take that which is threatening and demonize it.
~ Jasmine Guy
Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
~ George Orwell
A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired.
~ Alexander Hamilton