Quotes About Dominance

There are two things that create, protect, and increase a sovereign's rule—soldiers and money—both being dependent on each other. Armies need money and money is acquired by the strength of arms. If you lose one, you lose the other. Caesar

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart. —Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind (1954)

It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable. —Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind

humanity can be transformed by power and by powerlessness. Underlying

Authoritarianism—the familial, social, and political obsession with order, control, and obedience—is rooted in violence and coercion.

Britain was still seen as a world power. It was enjoying

Its a town eat town world

In a world without meaningful authority, all "acts" are coercive.

Accurate forecasts may help do that sometimes, and when they do accuracy is welcome, but it is pushed aside if that's what the pursuit of power requires.

The world hasn't changed that much; men still rule.

What matters is that you gain more and more control of the institutions that serve us all so poorly.

most girls and boys continue to experience childhood in father-dominated, father-absent, and/or mother-blaming families.

Female-female aggression (starving, abusing) causes spontaneous abortions. Hrdy notes that dominant, higher-ranking female primates overtly harass subordinate females. Such behaviors are "implicated in delays in maturation, inhibition of ovulation, or in extreme cases, spontaneous abortion by subordinates.

Female primates and female humans may both be genetically predisposed to compete against and dominate other females in order to suppress, severely, the next female's desirability, fertility, live-birth rate. We have seen how primates accomplish this. In a sense, humans do likewise. Advantages of class, caste, race, and geography function in similar ways. For example, I have seen women fight over the same mate or for the same child in truly primal or primate-like ways.

the Church is the merciless heart of the State.

champ de production culturelle est le lieu de luttes qui, à travers l'imposition de la définition dominante de l'écrivain, visent à délimiter la population de ceux qui sont en droit de participer à la lutte pour la définition de l'écrivain.

Every established order tends to produce the naturalization of its own arbitrariness.

He who punishes the vanquished fears not the victor.

Who is all-powerful should fear everything.

Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

There are players out there who want to dominate and keep their opponent sitting down. They want to make centuries and win frames at a single visit, and I like to see that.

I sometimes feel like it's my world and everyone is just visiting.

For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.