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Quotes About Dominance

We all know how ruthlessly these American millionaires crush their rivals as they climb to power.
~ Elizabeth Peters
You must win the respect of your subordinates by treating them with absolute fairness. Of course it helps to have an inherently dominant personality and a character both strong and just, commanding and yet tolerant…
~ Elizabeth Peters
I may say, without undue egotism, that when I make up my mind to do something, it is done quickly. The lethargic old city of the Popes fairly quaked under my ruthless hand during the following week.
~ Elizabeth Peters
magisterially
~ Ellis Peters
Power beyond reason created a lasting irrationality.
~ Alfred Kazin
Man is the hunter; woman is his game.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
The degeneracy of mankind is distinguished from its uprise by the dominance of chill abstractions, divorced from aesthetic content.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
In all their colonies, wealth, power, and beauty were the property of the white elite and the lighter-skinned children of intermarriages and illegal liaisons between white male colonizers and local women.
~ Ali Rattansi
She remarks, in particular, how white people simply fail to understand how they might be complicit, unwittingly, in shoring up structures of white dominance.
~ Ali Rattansi
The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.
~ Alice Hoffman
You'll never leave me now. You're mine. Be as I say.
~ Alice Notley
Men were made for war. Without it they wandered greyly about, getting under the feet of the women, who were trying to organize the really important things of life. When they couldn't make war men made money - and trouble and a dreadful nuisance of themselves.
~ Alice Thomas Ellis
Perfecte gastheren. Vehikels die je kunt gebruiken en waaraan je plezier kunt beleven, en dan weg kunt gooien. De weggooimaatschappij breidt zich uiteindelijk tot de mens zelf uit. Daar streeft Phobetor naar, een wereld waar de mens niet meer is dan een lege huls. Waar daemonen oppermachtig zijn en de volledige zeggenschap hebben over jullie aarde. - Leo
~ Alison Baird
Men impinged upon women without thought; another male right in a world of male rights.
~ Alison Goodman
One and all, you have proclaimed Pittakos, the lowborn, to be tyrant of your lifeless and doomed land. Moreover, you deafen him with praise.
~ Alkaios
A society is patriarchal to the degree that it promotes male privilege by being male dominated, male identified, and male centered. It is also organized around an obsession with control and involves as one of its key aspects the oppression of women.... If men occupy superior positions, it's a short leap to the idea that men must be superior...[and that] whatever men do will tend to be seen as having greater value.
~ Allan G. Johnson
Women are to be conquered, subdued, the way a mountaineer conquers a peak or a matador slays a bull.
~ Allan Hall
Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.
~ Allen Ginsberg
Power among humans is not simply the physical force with which one material body may move another; it is the force to distract, detour, maneuver, and command. Every pleasure we indulge in and every pain we suffer exerts power over others.
~ Alphonso Lingis
Well, clearly Apple is a role model of the American innovation whereby it produced all these products - iPod, iPhone, iPad - that are really now dominating all the technology arena in the world.
~ Al-Waleed bin Talal
I look at him more than a little shocked by his words knowing how much he likes being right being in charge most people do.
~ Alyson Noel
Our cause is much greater. And now,with you on board, it won't be long before we rule the Middleworld, the Lowerworld, and ultimately the Upperworld too. My dad's really gonna be proud of me then." His eyes blaze at the idea,proving once again,he's a psychopath.
~ Alyson Noel
And while I definitely agree with that, I also think the same can be said of how people handle power.
~ Alyson Noel
El poder no me interesa. Reinar es mucho más hermoso
~ Amelie Nothomb