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Quotes About Dominance

Power is power. It's energy. And if you get big, big energy, you can use that in a good way.
~ Yoko Ono
If one is to rule, and to continue ruling, one must be able to dislocate the sense of reality.
~ George Orwell, 1984
Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power.
~ Malcolm X
Wherever I found a living creature there I found the will to power.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.
~ Lao Tzu
True power lies not in the spotlight, but in the influential shadows.
~ J.Adam Snyder
Ethics and oversight are what you eliminate when you want absolute power.
~ DaShanne Stokes
They have influence, but no power." "In my experience, influence is power.
~ Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
The mind is constituted to accept the god of the more powerful. If you have to choose between the god of the slave owner and the god of the enslaved, naturally you will choose the former . . .
~ Barry Unsworth, Sacred Hunger
The worship of power is an old religion.
~ George Santayana
Experts are by definition the servants of those in power: they don't really THINK, they just apply their knowledge to problems defined by the powerful.
~ Slavoj Zizek
To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.
~ Kevin Alfred Strom
If you can abuse your power you have too much.
~ Marty Rubin
Power changes its appearance but not its reality.
~ Bertrand De Jouvenel, On Power
If you make peace without defense power, then you should be really ready to be ruled.
~ Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
I would be bored to death if I didn't control a country--Gin
~ Mayu Shinjo
There is a lure in power. It can get into a man's blood just as gambling and lust for money have been known to do.
~ Harry Truman
Everyone who searches for power, without exception, searches for battle. Do you fight in order to become more powerful? Or do you want more power so you can fight?
~ Lucifer
What would you sacrifice for power?
~ Kiersten White, And I Darken
Give little people a little power, and it goes straight to their ugly, little heads. -Foot talks about authority
~ Ray Palla, H: Infidels of Oil
Power is the crown that eats the head, "...
~ Pierce Brown, Golden Son
One of them says, 'Why did they do it?'And the other answers, 'Because they could.'That is the only answer there ever is.
~ Naomi Alderman, The Power
Struggle of power is natural in human because with power their individuality prevails over others.
~ Zaman Ali, Humanity
To tell a story is to take power over it.
~ Mark Doty, Firebird