Quotes About Dominance

Power controlled or abridged is almost always the rival and enemy of that power by which it is controlled or abridged.

The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity, and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex.

The populous States would, with little difficulty, overrun their less populous neighbors. Conquests would be as easy to be made as difficult to be retained. War, therefore, would be desultory and predatory. Plunder and devastation ever march in the train of irregulars.

Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God afraid of me.

The ruling passion, be it what it will, the ruling passion conquers reason still.

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor carth two masters.

Be Peter the Great, Ivan the Terrible, Emperor Paul–crush them all under you . . . be the Master, & all will bow down to you.

The big brutes, I can not name them differently

Clever, clever cat. He knew precisely what to say. And how to touch, she acknowledged, as his fingers moved from her ass to trace the curve of her waist. "My need for dominance doesn't bother you?" she pressed, knowing his answer was important. Her cat would never be happy in a subservient role. "Let's say I'm willing to compromise," he said, the rasp of his breath filling the air. "I don't always have to be on top.

Why don't you put on an animal's pelt and drag me to your house by my hair?

Men from the mountaintops will always come down to the molehill to conquer it. That will always be the vice of the conquerors.

Control breeds the need for more control, which then is used to justify the use of control.

Individuals with a pathological power-drive seek to secure their position in life with extraordinary efforts, with exceptional haste and impatience, with violent impulses, and all without the slightest consideration for others. These are the children whose behaviour is characterized by their frantic strivings towards an exaggerated goal of dominance. Their attacks on the rights of others in turn put their own rights at risk; they are against the world and the world is therefore against them.

Is is true that dictators never dream because they can change their smallest fantasies into realities if they want to?

Someone who goes through this wilderness among mankind again and again as the Seeker, and as the Caller, You can sense that that this is more than the call of man, or a power, or a greatness, or a thirst for dominance, or a violent force. This is the Calling God, who calls out in the midst of the wilderness through voices of men. He has filled them, and their very documents that such perfected people are among us sent by God.

I think about the question of perspective in reporting all the time, and since I spent 20 years of my career in Washington as both a reporter and an editor I'm keenly aware that a newspaper should not be dominated by stories in which the only voices and perspective come from those in power.

The number one way of becoming powerful in Washington is by becoming the 'Washington Post.'

Anyone that's watched my career knows that I finish fights and that I'm one scary dude to be in the cage with.

It's not easy to convey to someone who doesn't read comics just how Alan Moore has dominated the field since 'Watchmen.'

In the event of a Mad Max-style post-apocalyptic dystopia, people with supplies of food and water could become warlords or chieftains in the social order that emerges out of the rubble.

The 'low' quality of many American films, and of much American popular culture, induces many art lovers to support cultural protectionism. Few people wish to see the cultural diversity of the world disappear under a wave of American market dominance.

When I win, I send shock waves through the boxing world.

Wayne Gretzky is the greatest hockey player of all-time, I don't think there is any debate about that. If you look at the records he holds, they'll never be broken or touched. He wasn't the biggest, wasn't the fastest, and didn't have the hardest shot, but no one saw the game developing the way he saw the game develop.

John Wayne represents more force, more power than anyone else on the screen.