Quotes About Dominance

He was standing in the middle of the room, an arrogant look on his face. "What a night," Wendy sighed. Without even turning his head to look at her Raphael said, "Sleep." Wendy fell backward, her head landing on the pillow. "Don't do that to her!" Susan exclaimed. "You'd prefer to have this conversation with her listening?" Raphael asked, lifting one eyebrow.

man can live or work far beyond the earth's atmosphere … the first nation to do this will control the earth.

A ruthless foe established on a space station could actually subjugate the peoples of the world,

Today vegetables. Tomorrow...the world!

As Simone de Beauvoir had told us, women are not supposed to eclipse men in a world in which success and power are marked out for them. It is not easy to take up the historic privilege of dominance over women... if he is economically dependent on her talents. At the same time, she receives the fatal message that she must conceal her talents and abilities in order to be loved by him.

a lack of influence is of course its own kind of influence.

To survive, the weak must feed on the hearts of the strong.

In all practically relevant cases, governments—or more accurately the individuals involved in governmental process—do possess the power to coerce.

Creators of history always play with our impotence and our ignorance.

Vandals listen only when others are stronger. If vandals are equal or stronger, their word is the last word.

Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.

Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.

Sometimes you have compulsions that you can't control coming from the subconscious... They are the dictator inside ourselves.

To take command, one must first create the illusion that command is already yours.

How empire permeates!

It will be Eclipse first, the rest nowhere.

The European colonization efforts toward the Americas, for example, operated from the assumption that the enculturation of indigenous peoples was justified because European culture was superior (Barongan et al., 1997). Forcing the colonized to adopt European beliefs and customs was seen as civilizing them.

The irrational sense of entitlement is a dominant feature of White privilege (McIntosh, 2002).

allegations of playing the race card and the pressures of political correctness are games of verbal jujitsu used by dominant group members to portray and redefine White talk as the silenced, oppressed, and dissenting voice, while back talk is portrayed as the untouchable incorrect stance that needs to be challenged.

And I order people around really well. This morning, Tipstaff came over with a cup of tea and I told him no, I don't want tea I want coffee. That was great. I really asserted my authority." "Did he go and get you a coffee?" "No, he said he'd already made of a pot of tea so I took the tea because, you know, he'd already made it, but my authority was still firmly asserted.

We promised them power.

The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are.

Since the discovery of printing, knowledge has been called to power, and power has been used to make knowledge a slave.

The control of knowledge is the crux of tomorrow's worldwide struggle for power in every human institution.