Quotes About Dominance

Every decision in the world is made by the person who has the power to make the decision. Make peace with that.

Es cierto que nuestra desigualdad empieza cuando aquellos conquistadores se quedan con todo porque son distintos: que su título para mantener el poder era esa diferencia, esa desigualdad.

Here one has the perfect example of justice: the men have kept their women enslaved—the Arabs more than the Christian Copts—kept them stupid and limited and apart, for their male vanity and power; result: the dull women bore the daylights out of the men.

sociopathic opponent is utterly stuck in his conviction that winning by dominating is all-important. He is helpless to change his objective. If you are able to change yours, you will have a powerful advantage.

If all you had ever felt toward another person were the cold wish to "win," how would you understand the meaning of love, of friendship, of caring? You would not understand. You would simply go on dominating, and denying, and feeling superior. Perhaps you would experience a little emptiness sometimes, a remote sense of dissatisfaction, but that is all.

Controlling others—winning—is more compelling than anything (or anyone) else.

Michael Flynn was so angry he was almost spitting his words down the phone. Over six feet tall and with a heavy build he was a big man and, as everyone in the room knew, he was more than capable of great violence. He was paying them for their expertise, which they currently seemed to be lacking in. In fact, they were irritating the arse off him with their stupidity.

In many ways the rise of the state was the descent of the world from freedom to slavery

the empire created the emperors – not the other way round.

we should be thinking more about the fault-lines and fractures that underlie dominant male discourse.

We have to be more reflective about what power is, what it is for

The losers could be as spectacularly cruel as the victors.

Para conseguir su imperio, los romanos no aplastaron brutalmente a pueblos inocentes que se ocupaban de sus propios asuntos en pacífica armonía hasta que las legiones aparecieron en el horizonte

They called it, in their ignorance, "civilisation", but it was really part of their enslavement

In short, as the last part of this chapter reveals, the empire created the emperors – not the other way round. Governors

Graecia capta ferum uictorem cepit. 'Fierce Rome', that is, 'had been captured by captive Greece.

Mais pour regner il faut se taire.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

It's my world, you all just live in it.

Remember, it doesn't matter whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.

Vini, Vici, Vidi (I came, I saw, I conquered). - Julius Caesar

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Marriage is the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Incompatibility: In matrimony, a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.