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Quotes About Dominance

A functioning police state needs no police.
~ William Seward Burroughs
You see control can never be a means to any practical end. Control can never be a means to anything but more control like Junk.
~ William Seward Burroughs
We were not born to sue, but to command.
~ William Shakespeare
The eagle suffers little birds to sing,And is not careful what they mean thereby.
~ William Shakespeare
Ay, every inch a king.
~ William Shakespeare
The demi-Atlas of this earth, the armAnd burgonet of men.
~ William Shakespeare
This is Ercles' vein, a tyrant's vein.
~ William Shakespeare
And it is greatTo do that thing that ends all other deeds,Which shackles accidents, and bolts up change.
~ William Shakespeare
She could do to me with one eyebrow what two weeks without water can do to a plant.
~ William Sutcliffe
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
~ William Tecumseh Sherman
I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
~ William Tecumseh Sherman
In practice, often 12 political officers, 100 British soldiers, and 800 paramilitary personnel controlled 10 million people, with the nearest regular force lying 1,000 miles away. From 1924 to 1937, 10,000 regular personnel and 200 aircraft controlled half the Middle East; 8,000 colonial troops governed British Africa; and only 45,000 European soldiers garrisoned India. Never
~ Williamson Murray
The Yanks have colonized our subconscious.
~ Wim Wenders
The need to break her, to make her move to the touch of his harness, pumped through him like hot blood and bile. No
~ Win Blevins
Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.
~ Winston Churchill
The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.
~ Winston Churchill
A tiger doesn't proclaim his tigritude, he pounces
~ Wole Soyinka
A tiger doesn't proclaim its tigerness; it jumps on its prey
~ Wole Soyinka
THE DIFFICULTIES AND INDEED PERPLEXITIES which beset us the moment we try to make philosophic sense out of the findings of quantum theory are caused, not just by the complexity and subtlety of the microworld, but first and foremost by an adhesion to certain false metaphysical premises, which have occupied a position of intellectual dominance since the time of René Descartes.
~ Wolfgang Smith
Instead of the vast organization to exploit the weakness of the Many, should we not possess one for the exploitation of the intelligence of the Few?
~ Wyndham Lewis
The slavemaster took Tom and dressed him well, and fed him well, and even gave him a little education -- a little education; gave him a long coat and a top hat and made all the other slaves look up to him. Then he used Tom to control them. The same strategy that was used in those days is used today, by the same white man.
~ x malcolm
men unite against none so readily as against those whom they see attempting to rule over them.
~ Xenophon
How can you say that princes have the greatest power of subduing their enemies, when they are sensible that all are their enemies, who are subject to their rule?
~ xenophon ii
I kept my gaze steady on him. "My greatest nightmare is to be owned by someone." "No. Your nightmare is being owned by someone unworthy.
~ Yamila Abraham