Quotes About Dominance

La fuerza es tan despiadada con quien la posee como con quien la sufre: a este lo aplasta, al primero lo envenena.

And power will always consume itself.

Once we have power, we shall never again give it up, unless we are carried out as corpses from our offices.

Assyria soon discovered a painful truth: empires are like Ponzi schemes: financial frauds in which previous investors are paid returns out of new investors' deposits. The costs of holding imperial territory can only be underwritten by loot and tribute extracted by constant new conquests; empires must continue to expand if they are not to collapse.

Thrasymachus said it was just a word invented by the victors to rule the losers. Like, we won the war; now we make the laws.

Turns out that capitalism is unkillable because it kills every other system first.

The more you try to control another person, the more you are under that person's control." If how you feel or what you do next depends on what the person you are trying to control does or does not do next, then you are under that person's control.

Christopher Columbus himself established the template for the newcomers' view of the aboriginal population. "They ought to make good and skilled servants," he wrote; "I think they can very easily be made Christians. … I could conquer the whole of them with 50 men, and govern them as I please.

In time, we'll tame them and they'll welcome their bondage. Many already do.

Fear was a tool used by the strong to cow the weak.

The weak are found out and killed by the strong.

February 17, 1950: "We shall have world government whether or not you like it – by conquest or consent.

The best way for them to ensure their psychological survival is to be in control of their environment and the people in it at all times. That's why it's their way or the highway, and compromise and flexibility seem impossible.

Cognition reigns but does not rule.

Consciousness reigns but doesn't govern.

je suis l'empire à la fin de la décadence.

You can run a lot of plays when your X is twice as big as the other guys' O. It makes your X's and O's pretty good.

I am a cold hearted, ruthless bastard who sees what he wants and takes it. Is that not so?" He stepped closer to her, too close. His voice, no longer tender, was like the growl of a hungry wolf. "You think I don't want you." He ran his fingers over the pulse beat of her throat..."But I do.

As a matter of fact," the other voice went on, "if you do tie her up from time to time, or whip her just a little, and she begins to like it, that's no good either. You have to get past the pleasure stage, until you reach the stage of tears.

But he spoke. Holding her by the collar, with two fingers slipped in between the neck and collar, he told her it was his intention that henceforth she should be shared by him and those of his choosing, and by those whom he did not know who were connected to the society of the château, shared as she had been the previous evening.

For a long time he had wanted to prostitute her, and he was delighted to feel that the pleasure he was deriving was even greater than he had hoped, and that it bound him to her all the more, as it bound her to him, all the more so because, through it, she would be more humiliated and ravaged. Since she loved him, she could not help loving whatever derived from him.

The right to dispose of her body however they wished, in whatever place or manner they should choose, the right to keep her in chains, the right to whip her like a slave or prisoner for the slightest failing or infraction, or simply for their pleasure, the right to pay no heed to her pleas and cries, if they should make her cry out.

In the final analysis, with Rene she had been an apprentice to love, she had loved him only to learn how to give herself, enslaved and surfeited, to Sir Stephen.

I'm not hungry," Alexander whispered. "I'm famished. Watch out for me. Now, don't make a single sound," he said, moving on top of her. "Tania, God....I'll cover your mouth, just like this, and you hold on to me, just like this, and I'm going to-just like this-