Quotes About Dominance

The only way to be safe is to own the place.

What matters is that she could, if she wanted. The power to hurt is a kind of wealth.

When does power exist? Only in the moment it is exercised.

she could kill them in three moves before they stirred in their comfortably padded chairs. It doesn't matter that she shouldn't, that she never would. What matters is that she could, if she wanted. The power to hurt is a kind of wealth.

But consider this: are patriarchies peaceful because men are peaceful? Or do more peaceful societies tend to allow men to rise to the top because they place less value on the capacity for violence? Just asking the question.

Remember, if you're going to stay here, you're going to need to own the place so they can't take it from you. The only way you're safe, honeybun, is if you own it.

she knows she can control this, it's the control that gives her pleasure, at first.

I am the kind of man who takes what he wants. I am the kind of man who fights for what he has. I am the man who fucks his wife on his dead ex-fiancée's bed, because the past can't contain me and I mold the future to my liking.

I dare because people like you walk around like you own the world, when really, you spend your entire pitiful life stacking up your lopsided tower of toy blocks, hoping no one bigger and stronger comes along to knock it down. But me? I'm bigger. I'm stronger. And I take a very distinct pleasure in stomping your world to fucking smithereens.

'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.

There are two levers for moving man -- interest and fear.

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.

I love power like a musician loves music.

To have ultimate victory, you must be ruthless.

I have destroyed the Austrian army by simply marching

Men are ruled by toys

There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest

Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.

There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.

Do you know what amazes me more than anything else? The impotence of force to organize anything.

My enemies are many, my equals are none. In the shade of olive trees, they said Italy could never be conquered. In the land of Pharaohs and Kings, they said Egypt could never be humbled. In the realm of forest and snow, they said Russia could never be tamed. Now they say nothing. They fear me, like a force of nature, a dealer in thunder and death! I say: I am Napoleon, I am Emperor. (Napoleon: Total War)

There are two levers for moving men interest and fear.

There are but two powers in the world, the sword and the mind. In the long run the sword is always beaten by the mind

I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay hands on everything they can get.