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Quotes About Dominance

the alpha male wins his position by building a stable coalition with other males and females, not through mindless violence. In
~ Yuval Noah Harari
Atominis ginklas kar? tarp supervalstybi? pavert? kolektyvine savižudybe, taigi atgras? nuo bandym? ginklu siekti viešpatyst?s pasaulyje.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
Male chimps cannot gather in a constitutional assembly to abolish the office of alpha male and declare that from here on out all chimps are to be treated as equals.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
Homo sapiens conquered the world thanks above all to its unique language.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
The process of taming almost always involves the castration of males. This restrains male aggression and enables humans selectively to control the herd's procreation.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
The empires built by bankers and merchants in frock coats and top hats defeated the empires built by kings and noblemen in gold clothes and shining armour.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
commandment is to link everything to the system, including heretics who don't want to be plugged
~ Yuval Noah Harari
La escritura nació como la criada de la conciencia humana, pero cada vez más se está convirtiendo en su dueña y señora.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
In 1775 Asia accounted for 80 per cent of the world economy. The combined economies of India and China alone represented two-thirds of global production. In comparison, Europe was an economic dwarf.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
The farm thus became the prototype of new societies, complete with puffed-up masters, inferior races fit for exploitation, wild beasts ripe for extermination and a great God above that gives His blessing to the entire arrangement.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
Our children's books, our iconography and our TV screens are still full of giraffes, wolves and chimpanzees, but the real world has very few of them left. There are about 80,000 giraffes in the world, compared to 1.5 billion cattle; only 200,000 wolves, compared to 400 million domesticated dogs; only 250,000 chimpanzees –in contrast to billions of humans. Humankind really has taken over the world.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
What potential did Europe develop in the early modern period that enabled it to dominate the late modern world? There are two complementary answers to this question: modern science and capitalism.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
Un imperio que no puede aguantar un golpe y seguir de pie no es realmente un imperio.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
Really powerful human organisations – such as pharaonic Egypt, communist China, the European empires and the modern school system – are not necessarily clear-sighted. Much of their power rests on their ability to force their fictional beliefs on a submissive reality.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
Struggle of power is natural in human because with power their individuality prevails over others."
~ Zaman Ali
The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities.
~ Zbigniew Brzezinski
All political power comes from the barrel of a gun.
~ zedong mao
That was one of the ways she established social dominance over people: she would sit and watch until she frightened them, and then suddenly be friendly and free and just as charming as she had been formidable
~ Zelda Fitzgerald
If you end up getting into a fight with someone, make sure that you win by at least half a mile.
~ zelinski ernie j ii
When authority is backed up by an immediate physical compulsion, what we are dealing with is not authority proper (i.e. symbolic authority), but simply an agency of brute force.
~ zizek slavoj ii
It's bad if we are controlled, but if we're not, it can be even worse.
~ zizek slavoj iii
I feel like she could drown me in a spoonful of water or crush me with her fingernail clippings. I realize I have no chance.
~ Zoe Trope
Déjà, il était trop tard. Ils ne savaient bien. L'ennemi avait clairement gagné. Bientôt il ne resterait plus du miracle de la vie sur notre planète que la monoculture des vaches, cochons, chiens et poules maltraités, quelques autres espèces utiles -ainsi que des humains, d'horribles, de répugnants, d'imbattables humains.
~ Deb Olin Unferth
If you can make a compelling argument, and win enough minds, and if you can transform various parts of our world sufficiently, then the moment belongs to you.
~ Debbie Millman