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Quotes About Dominance

Honey will wipe the floor with you." His eyes went half-mast, and his voice dropped in evident pleasure. "I know.
~ Patricia Briggs
It's easier to be horrible if you can squash everyone who tries to stop you.
~ Patricia Briggs
But I would be a much better monster than you were. There would be no stories about my reign of terror because no one would live to tell the tale.
~ Patricia Briggs
Dominance among wolves is a combination of force of personality, strength of will, physical ability and a component of other
~ Patricia Briggs
Besides," he told her gently, "my wolf is more interested in courting you than in asserting his dominance.
~ Patricia Briggs
She needs feeding up. Leo never could take care of the gifts he was given.' 'He wasn't given Anna,' Charles said. 'He hunted her down.' Tag's face stilled. 'He Changed an Omega by force?
~ Patricia Briggs
Mine," he said. Adam's eyes narrowed. "I don't think so. She is mine." It would have been flattering, I thought, except that at least one of them was talking about dinner and I wasn't certain about the other.
~ Patricia Briggs
could land or take off from the planet. They hoped that the young Queen of Naboo would agree quickly to their demands. Then they could use Naboo as an example to persuade or force other planets to do the same. But
~ Patricia C. Wrede
I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.
~ Patricia Cornwell
Controllers think differing ideas and views are personal opposition to be rejected and destroyed. And, since Controllers identify themselves with their prescriptions, it becomes important to them that others be dissuaded of theirs. Their success is measured in conversions.
~ Unknown
verbal abuse is an issue of control, a means of holding power over another. This abuse may be overt or covert, constant, controlling, and what Bach and Deutsch (1980) call "crazymaking.
~ Unknown
Anything achieved by the partner is seen as a threat by the abuser.
~ Unknown
Suppressing the knowledge produced by any oppressed group makes it easier for dominant groups to rule because the seeming absence of dissent suggests that subordinate groups willingly collaborate in their own victimization.
~ Patricia Hill Collins
Suppressing the knowledge produced by any oppressed group makes it easier for dominant groups to rule because the seeming absence of dissent suggests that subordinate groups willingly collaborate in their own victimization. Maintaining the invisibility of Black women and our ideas not only in the United States, but in Africa, the Caribbean, South America, Europe, and other places where Black women now live, has been critical in maintaining social inequalities.
~ Patricia Hill Collins
Cunningham, the English lord, owned all our land, all our houses; he could put any of us out if he wanted.
~ Patricia Reilly Giff
How dare you speak to me like that?' She tried to pull away, but his strength was too great, a conquering strength that held her fast, his hands tightly at her waist, his eyes burning into her. 'I will speak to you as I choose!' His lips tightened at her anger. 'The bride is there for you to see. It is finished, over. Forget him. I would not have allowed it in any case, even if Rina had not existed. You're mine, exactly what I want.
~ Unknown
For the addict, however, there is no choice. No choice. The addiction is in charge.
~ Unknown
there is no replacement as such in that pleasure retains its dominance. The reality principle "does not abandon the intention of ultimately obtaining pleasure, but it nevertheless demands and carries into effect the postponement of satisfaction, the abandonment of a number of possibilities of gaining satisfaction and the temporary toleration of unpleasure as a step on the long indirect road to pleasure.
~ Unknown
I have two maxims that I believe, dear girl. One, if you can control yourself, you can control others. Two, if you can control information, you can control others.
~ Patrick Ness
Superior numbers versus superior firepower. A recipe for unending slaughter.
~ Patrick Ness
Close enough so I can see the smile, a smile I know full well, a smile that clubs, a smile that beats, a smile that dominates.
~ Patrick Ness
There's only one room on this planet for one side to be dominant, Todd.
~ Patrick Ness
Most Gods don't care. About anything. Other than gaining dominance over other Gods and telling you how wonderful they are and demanding that you say the same. There's nothing like a bunch of Gods to show you how alone you really are.
~ Patrick Ness
If a crowd can flinch, they flinch. More than a thousand men flinch under the fist of just one. I don't see what the women do.
~ Patrick Ness