Quotes About Dominance

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know." ? Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

The mighty lion toys with the mouse that crosses his path—any other reaction would mar his fearsome reputation.

If the world is like a giant scheming court and we are trapped inside it, there is no use in trying to opt out of the game. That will only render you powerless, and powerlessness will make you miserable. Instead of struggling against the inevitable, instead of arguing and whining and feeling guilty, it is far better to excel at power. In fact, the better you are at dealing with power, the better friend, lover, husband, wife, and person you become.

Such is the fate, in some form or other, of all those who unbalance the master's sense of self, poke holes in his vanity, or make him doubt his pre-eminence.

The only means to gain one's ends with people are force and cunning. Love also, they say; but that is to wait for sunshine, and life needs every moment. JOHANN VON GOETHE, 1749-1832

Power depends on appearing larger than other people

The only means to gain one's ends with people are force and cunning. Love also, they say; but that is to wait for sunshine, and life needs every moment. JOHANN VON GOETHE, 1749–1832 You

The great questions of the time will be decided, not by speeches and resolutions of majorities, but by iron and blood.

never let your targets get too comfortable with you. They need to feel fear and anxiety. Show them some coldness, a flash of anger they did not expect. Be irrational if necessary.

Nobody has any rights unless they've got a machine gun.

Oh, I'm sorry. Did I interrupt some sort of dominance foreplay?

Looking at everything, I started to feel nauseous, as if the seventies had taken refuge here against extinction and were preparing to take over the world.

I can smell her all over you. You need some help taming her? Let me break her in for you.

Men," she said, rolling her eyes as she sat before her screen again. "Don't they realize that if we wanted to rule the world, we could?

Orange blossom honey is the boss

A struggle in the sphere of ideology is the prelude to a political struggle, and naturally develops into a struggle for power.

it looked like the centuries-long wrestling match between state and capital had ended in a decisive victory for capital. Possibly

My body worked so well that eventually all things everywhere were swallowed and digested by me. I grew so large that I ate the world, and all the blood in the world is mine. What am I? You know, even though you are like everything else, and see me from the inside. I am the market.

the shift from feudal land power to bourgeois money power was complete.

Money equals power; power makes the law; and law makes government

Wherever there's a commons there's enclosure. And enclosure always wins.

And with our work," John continued, "we are carving out a new social order and the next step in the human story"—i.e., the latest variant in primate dominance dynamics.

The mind must have the final say and sway over the body and not the other way round