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Quotes About Dominance

What if I can't get it up?" Guy wailed. "That's of no importance if you're on the right end of a whip.
~ Edmund White
more and more ferocious to devour the South.
~ Edmund Wilson
unchecked power corrupts.  
~ Edward Gibbon
In the second century of the Christian Æra, the empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth
~ Edward Gibbon
They soon experienced, that those who refuse the sword must renounce the sceptre. 
~ Edward Gibbon
the empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth
~ Edward Gibbon
subdue the wild beast, which, according to the lively metaphor of Aristotle, [48] seldom fails to ascend the throne of a despot.
~ Edward Gibbon
For what fortress, (added Attila,) what city, in the wide extent of the Roman empire, can hope to exist, secure and impregnable, if it is our pleasure that it should be erased from the earth?
~ Edward Gibbon
There seemed to be no one in a position of power, from the Vatican to Wall Street, from Parliament to Scotland Yard to Fleet Street, who could think of anything better to do than abuse it....
~ Edward St. Aubyn
The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them.
~ Albert Einstein
The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.
~ Albert Jay Nock
Every colonial nation carries carries the seeds of a fascist temptation in its bossom. What is fascism if not a regime of oppression for the benefit of a few
~ Albert Memmi
Again and again he would lie down at her feet; only to waken presently with a thunderous growl and a snarl, and with a lunge of bared teeth at her caressing hand. The hand would continue to caress; and his show of fury was met with a laugh and with a comment: "You've had a good sleep, and now you've waked up in a nice homicidal rage.
~ Albert Payson Terhune
Hitler's dictatorship was the first of an industrial estate in this age of modern technology, a dictatorship which employed to perfection the instruments of technology to dominate its own people. By means of such instruments of technology, eighty million persons could be made subject to the will of one individual. Telephone, teletype, radio, made it possible to transmit the commands of the highest levels directly to the lowest organs where they were executed uncritically
~ Albert Speer
and landed near Steve. They were kingly in stature and commanded power. "Dark
~ Alex Anderson
Oh no, his power level is unbelievable,
~ Alex Anderson
The way to win battles, wars and games is by attacking and overrunning the opposing side.
~ Alex Ferguson
When winning becomes a way of life, true winners are relentless.
~ Alex Ferguson
The one thing I could never allow was loss of control, because control was my only saviour.
~ Alex Ferguson
Control is part of faking it
~ Alex Flinn
Inhumanity is the keynote of stupidity in power.
~ Alexander Berkman
she looked at me as if a horse had wandered into the hall, and in commanding it with her eyes, she could get it to return to its stable.
~ Alexander Chee
In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will.
~ Alexander Hamilton
Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.
~ Alexander Hamilton