Quotes About Dominance

All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.

What gave transcendent importance to the aggressiveness of power was the fact that its natural prey, its necessary victim, was liberty, or law, or right.

Lists are a form of power.

Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a modern man would appear to be justice

Law always chooses sides on the basis of enforcement power. Morality and legal niceties have little to do with it when the real question is: Who has the clout?

Power is sexy, not simply in its own right, but because it inspires self-confidence in its owner and a shiver of subservience on the part of those who approach it.

Law is but a heathen word for power.

It's not about money. The money will flow. It's about power and influence.

Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.

Nothing is more stylish than power.

Even one billion Chinese do not a superpower make.

I don't know how you can do it, if you don't recognition the media as a power center in America.

Culture follows power.

The spell of power never quite releases its hold.

You know, if you think about it, the most powerful people on this earth probably never raise their voices - they just say it and people hop to, because they have that power.

Those who do not wish to kill any one, wish they had the power. [Lat., Et qui nolunt occidere quemquam Posse volunt.]

Without any doubt, I am striving for power.

Sol has experience, pace and physical power, which nobody else has together.

No doubt that the U.S. is a super-power capable of conquering a relatively small country, but is it able to control it?

The depositary of power is always unpopular.

I am compelled to fear that science will be used to promote the power of dominant groups rather than to make men happy.

Deny a strong man his due, and he will take all he can get.

The possession of power over others is inherently destructive both to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

As usurpation is the exercise of power which another has a right to, so tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right, which nobody can have a right to.