Quotes About Dominance

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

It is very difficult, when there are those people who want power over other people and will stop at nothing to get it: it is very difficult for all the people who don't want power, except just power over themselves, to find a way of resisting it.

To think that men and women had actually had sex together—had actually done things. Or, rather, men had done things. It was the men who did them, the women who had them done. Men who had the pleasure, women all the suffering.

turn on a man, humiliate him, wound his pride, crush him under foot and think no more of the matter than if he had stepped on a worm. And

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms his strength into right, and obedience into duty.

The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest.

It is not the men who are in command of the bulldozers. It is the bulldozer who invented men, and then, since they failed to interest it, obliterated them with its muscular arm.

You had to clearly choose. Shaq was jealous of Kobe. Kobe wasn't jealous of Shaq. Kobe just wanted to kick everybody's ass.

If we keep him for ourselves, we can do anything we want with him!' 'OH, REALLY?! Does that include baking him in a quiche?!' 'NO, IT DOES NOT INCLUDE THAT! IT INCLUDES EATING HIM RAW!' 'That's too bad. He would've made a fine pastry filling.

I have all the guns and all the money. I can withstand challenge from without and from within. Am I right, comrade?

The ultimate weapon for the abusive individual is the refusal to communicate directly....

Above all is the NPD person's need for control, particularly in close relationships.

The touch to which one resigns oneself because all resistance appears hopeless – and particularly so as regards the future – has, in our society, become the arrest . The feel of the hand of authority on his shoulder is usually enough to make a man give himself up without having to be actually seized. He cowers and goes quietly.

It is those who devote themselves to killing who have power.

The sky is so close to the sea that it is difficult to tell which is reflected in the other, which one needs the other, which one is dominating the other.

Honey -- even Ray Charles can see that you have control issues.

It helped that Celia Ray could walk into a joint like nobody I've ever seen. She would throw her resplendence into a room ahead of her, the way a soldier might throw a grenade into a machine gunner's nest, and then she would follow her beauty right on in and assess the carnage.

She gasped again and opened blue eyes lit with erotic mischief. "Are you trying to steal the reins from me?" Even with his penis buried deep within her, even moments from climax, he arched an eyebrow. "You have them only by my permission.

Maximus turned to the house, thinking. He had no idea how he would do it yet, but he meant to best her. He'd show her that he was the master, and when she'd admitted his victory… well, then he'd have her. And he'd hold her, by God. His huntress. His goddess.

She lies! cried the Fox, and he leapt toward her, his arm raised. The Wolf lunged, seized the Fox's right arm, twisted it up behind his back, and slammed the other man to his knees. Iris stared and felt a tremble shake her body. She'd never seen a man move so swiftly. Nor so brutally. The Wolf bent over his prey, both men panting, their naked bodies sweating. The snout of the Wolf mask pressed against the Fox's vulnerable bent neck. Don't. Touch. What. Is. Mine.

The strange thing, you know, is that Stalin openly admired Ivan the Terrible. Two leaders who were willing to crush and kill their own people-to do anything necessary- in order to consolidate their power...Can you imagine a world in which Stalin could live for five hundred years...or perhaps forever?

it is much the same, I daresay, wherever and whenever men desire power and the use of power on others.

The oppressed are sometimes the most rabid of oppressors (119).