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Quotes About Dominance

Wherever there is power there is age.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Those who live in the best cliffs think they are better than us. That is always man's attitude when he has power.
~ Ray Bradbury
Power never turns power down, ever, unless institutionally demanded.
~ Richard Dreyfuss
He soon recognized the fact that the stimulus proceeded from the idea to be in the power of a woman rather than from the act of violence itself.
~ Richard von Krafft-Ebing
This is politics. People in power never have to play by the same rules.
~ Richelle Mead
It's the most ambitious power grab I've ever witnessed.
~ Rick Santorum
My interest is in power. How power works.
~ Robert Caro
Based on all criteria - military power, economic influence, cultural dominance - America remains number one, even though other, new players are increasingly challenging it in that role.
~ Robert Kagan
Greater economic power will be in the hands of too few.
~ Robert Ludlum
The United States has been a global power since late in the 19th century.
~ Robert M. Gates
Sweetie, in our world, fair's got nothing to do with anything. He who has the greatest power wins. It's why we're all willing to kill each other off without flinching. (Solin)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.
~ Simone Weil
Mike Laga will make you forget about every power hitter that ever lived.
~ Sparky Anderson
There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
~ Tacitus
He who achieves power by violence does not truly become lord or master.
~ Thomas Aquinas
The reputation of power IS power.
~ Thomas Hobbes
... a thirst for power is the natural disease of monarchy.
~ Thomas Paine
If you were handed power on a plate you'd be left fighting over a plate.
~ Tom Stoppard
I once read somewhere that, in any relationship, the one who cares the least is the one with all the power.
~ Tony Parsons
It is a major world power, and today it is an economic and military leader - no doubt about it. That is why America has a strong influence on the situation in the world in general.
~ Vladimir Putin
When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.
~ Walter Jon Williams
The rule, acknowledged or not, seems to be that if we have great power we must use it. We would use a steam shovel to pick up a dime. We have experts who can prove there is no other way to do it.
~ Wendell Berry
To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.
~ William Hazlitt
Because the good old rule Sufficeth them,-the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can.
~ William Wordsworth