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Quotes About Dominance

All interest in every other topic" seemed to be "eaten up" by the slavery question.
~ Unknown
After defeating the Axis powers in the Second World War with its military and industrial might, the United States then set about waging and winning a far more subtle war against the whole world: a war of cultural superiority.
~ Matthew Reilly
Some men are so macho they'll get you pregnant just to kill a rabbit.
~ Maureen Murphy
Men who love power are not only dominated, as is generally supposed, by an appetite for wealth and honours. Above all they are influenced by an objective taste for the creation of events, for controlling their occurrence, for acting upon the world with effectiveness and for being always in the right. Wealth and honours are no more than the signs and tools of their influence.
~ Maurice Druon
The organism is an edifice of compensated instabilities (cf. walk, lose one's balance, catch oneself). Sich bewegen= to organize the instability oneself, and thereby dominate it (the Sich defined without 'consciousness').
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
To preserve itself, male dominance is obliged to prize competition and central control and to turn away from making adjustments to the constantly shifting, personal needs or the problems that relate to women and their children.
~ Unknown
To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.
~ Max Beerbohm
Es justamente el espíritu dominador de la naturaleza el que continuamente reivindica la superioridad de la naturaleza en la competencia
~ Max Horkheimer
hard race from the north who ruled Kemet with iron,
~ Unknown
He is a man. He is governed by power and riches and by his testicles.
~ Unknown
Might is a fine thing, and useful for many purposes; for "one goes further with a handful of might than with a bagful of right.
~ Max Stirner
He who has might has—right; if you have not the former, neither have you the latter. Is this wisdom so hard to attain?
~ Max Stirner
Wer die Gewalt hat, der hat – Recht; habt Ihr jene nicht, so habt Ihr auch dieses nicht. Ist diese Weisheit so schwer zu erlangen? Seht doch die Gewaltigen und ihr Tun an!
~ Max Stirner
Political freedom means this: that the polis, the state, is free; religious freedom this: that religion is free, just as freedom of conscience indicates that conscience is free; thus, it does not that I am free from state, from religion, from conscience, or that I am rid of them. It does not mean my freedom, but the freedom of a power that rules and vanquishes me; it means that one of my oppressors, like state, religion, conscience, is free.
~ Max Stirner
He who, to hold his own, must count on the absence of will in others is a thing made by these others, as the master is a thing made by the servant. If submissiveness ceased, it would be all over with lordship.
~ Max Stirner
Apart from any other basis which might justify a superiority, education, as a power, raised him who possessed it over the weak, who lacked it, and the educated man counted in his circle, however large or small it was, as the mighty, the powerful, the imposing one: for he was an authority.
~ Max Stirner
Material goods have gained an increasing and finally inexorable power over the lives of men as at no previous period in history.
~ Max Weber
el estado moderno es una asociación de dominación con carácter institucional que ha tratado, con éxito, de monopolizar dentro de un territorio la violencia física legítima como medio de dominación y que, a este fin, ha reunido todos los medios materiales en manos de su dirigente y ha expropiado a todos los funcionarios estamentales que antes disponían de ellos por derecho propio, sustituyéndolos con sus propias jerarquías supremas.
~ Max Weber
o capitalismo atual, que se desenvolveu a ponto de dominar a vida econômica, educa e seleciona os sujeitos econômicos de que precisa por um processo de sobrevivência econômica dos mais bem adaptados.
~ Max Weber
Für die Politik ist das entscheidende Mittel: die Gewaltsamkeit.
~ Max Weber
I know we live in a very sexist world, and a lot of boys do nothing except get in trouble, until one day they grow up and dominate every aspect of society," Ash said. "But girls, at least while they're still girls and perform well, seem to do everything better for a while.
~ Meg Wolitzer
I know we live in a very sexist world, and a lot of boys do nothing except get in trouble, until one day they grow up and dominate every aspect of society. But girls, at least while they're still girls and perform well, seem to do everything better for a while. Seem to get the attention.
~ Meg Wolitzer
It's like we kept trying to use the same rules," Greer said, "and these people kept saying to us, 'Don't you get it? I will not live by your rules.'" She took a breath. "They always get to set the terms. I mean, they just come in and set them. They don't ask, they just do it. It's still true.
~ Meg Wolitzer
In this life," she said, crossing these glorious gams, shimmering in the filmy light, "you can't let your guard down. If you can control yourself, you can control everyone else.
~ Megan Abbott