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Quotes About Dominance

He who has his thumb on the purse has the power.
~ Otto von Bismarck
All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism.
~ Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Sovereignty and the right to rule cannot be conferred on anyone no matter who ... as a result of an academic discussion. Sovereignty is acquired by force and power and violence.
~ Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Everyone may be called "comrade," but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.
~ Thomas Sowell
Power is nothing unless you can turn it into influence.
~ Condoleezza Rice
The love of power is the demon of mankind.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story.
~ Lincoln Steffens
Understand: A person of power instills a kind of fear by deliberately unsettling those around him to keep the initative on his side.
~ Robert Greene
The more famous and powerful I get the more power I have to hurt men.
~ Sharon Stone
Offense is the essence of air power.
~ Henry H. Arnold
The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.
~ Adolf Hitler
Abuse of power comes as no surprise
~ Jenny Holzer
The thing to keep in mind is that laws are framed by those who happen to be in power and for the purpose of keeping them in power.
~ Mary Brave Bird
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
~ Henry Kissinger
It's not just the abuse of power that's the problem. It's the power to abuse.
~ Stefan Molyneux
Those who have been intoxicated with power... can never willingly abandon it.
~ Edmund Burke
And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.
~ Lord Acton
Oppression is the essence of power.
~ Ernst Kaltenbrunner
In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support [salary] is a power over his will.
~ Alexander Hamilton
God and the people are the source of all power. I have twice been given the power. I have taken it, and damn it, I will keep it forever.
~ Francois Duvalier
Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
~ Denis Diderot
Victory, speedy and complete, awaits the side that employs air power as it should be employed.
~ Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet
Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity
~ Gilles Deleuze