Quotes About Dominance

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

Power is founded upon opinion.

the wages of empire is myopia

Get there first with the most men.

Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.

We'll take the cake with the red cherry on top.

I knew I hated him as only a woman can hate a man, as only a slave can hate his master. I saw from the expression in his eyes that he feared me as only a master can fear his slave, as only a man can fear a woman.

When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins.

To own a slave was to have a license for libertine behavior, because sexual violation was intrinsic to slavery. The slaveowner had the full legal right to do with his property as he saw fit

It all comes back to one thing... brutality. Compel people into a position where they have to use the brute that's in them in order to live and the brute will waken all right. When the brute is naturally strong in a man - that's the man who becomes the leader of the pressgang. And there you have it. Where all is compulsion and enforcement, it's the bully that rules.

new technologies compete with old ones—for time, for attention, for money, for prestige, but mostly for dominance of their world-view.

The strong live off the weak and the clever live off the strong.

We can bring in all the guns and drugs we need and bring out all the bodies of people we don't.

The household revolved around Matthias's power, his anger, and obedience to him in all things.

the most common cause of death among alpha males was ego.

The secret to success is to own nothing, but control everything.

agarrou-o pelo braço, numa energia tão inesperada e viril, que ele se deixou dominar.

but he was big and, superwoman or not, Anna knew when all else was equal, big won. Young won. The point was to make sure all else was as unequal as possible.

Rape was about violence, hate and dominance. Sex had little to do with it.

For most of the nineteenth century, N M Rothschild was part of the biggest bank in the world which dominated the international bond market. For a contemporary equivalent, one has to imagine a merger between Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, J P Morgan and probably Goldman Sachs too – as well, perhaps, as the International Monetary Fund, given the nineteen-century Rothschild's role in stabilising the finances of numerous governments.

Jimmy Mack said she had Gone-into-Teaching because it was the only place where she could rule without reprisal; where she could give free rein to the awesome dimension of her need to crush things. Mr. Conheedy it seemed had enjoyed this for the first three months of their marriage, but then had run off, Nan said to try and find a female Mrs. Conheedy next time around.

He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command

People should either be caressed or crushed. If you do them minor damage they will get their revenge; but if you cripple them there is nothing they can do. If you need to injure someone, do it in such a way that you do not have to fear their vengeance.

Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved