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Quotes About Dominance

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
No one man should have all that power.
~ Kanye West
Nothing is more arrogant than the weakness which feels itself supported by power.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Law in the United States is at once a powerful medium and a medium for power.
~ Catharine MacKinnon
I have plumbed the depth of human cowardice and I realized that there is only one way to be right, and that is to be in power.
~ Georges Bidault
What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
~ C. S. Lewis
Anyone who said power was not addictive had never really experienced it.
~ Dan Brown
Whoever can do as he pleases, commands when he entreats.
~ Pierre Corneille
What is American strategy first of all? So American strategy is to command the seas, right? The foundation of our power is sea control. Nobody can invade us, but we can invade them.
~ George Friedman
To come under siege was the inevitable fate of power.
~ Frank Herbert
Concentrated political power is the most dangerous thing on earth.
~ Rudolph Rummel
We want very good leaders who have a lot of power.
~ Charlie Munger
It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.
~ Eric Hoffer
Simply stated, power is the ability to get things done.
~ Pat Heim
I'm the man of the hour, the man with the power, too sweet to be sour.
~ Billy Graham
Powerlessness corrupts: absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely.
~ Rosabeth Moss Kanter
You can't trust anybody with power.
~ Newt Gingrich
Power is a thing of perception. They don't need to be able to kill you. They just need you to think they are able to kill you
~ Julian Assange
Money: power at its most liquid.
~ Mason Cooley
You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
~ Major Owens
Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them.
~ Olive Schreiner
Power is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.
~ Samuel Johnson
All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Absolute power demoralizes.
~ Lord Acton