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Quotes About Dominion

Again and again, as he looked at each brutal performance, the lesson was driven home to Buck: a man with a club was a lawgiver, a master to be obeyed, though not necessarily conciliated
~ Jack London
He only is fitted to command and control who has succeeded in commanding and controlling himself.
~ James Allen
He shall rule, whom they look not for that dwell upon the earth, and the fowls shall take their flight away together:
~ Compton Gage
if you can't control yourself, you will be controlled by others—choose your master.
~ Rick Julian
Man marks the earth with ruin - his control stops with the shore.
~ Lord Byron
Men are pigs. Too bad we own everything.
~ Tim Allen
Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.
~ Thomas Love Peacock
Animals... are there merely as a means to an end. That end is man.
~ Immanuel Kant
The freedom of man is, in political liberalism, freedom from persons, from personal dominion, from the master; the securing of each individual person against other persons, personal freedom.
~ Max Stirner
It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.
~ Hans Christian Andersen
There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men.
~ Ayn Rand
The power of the mind is your power. Use it. Don't let it use you.
~ Terri Guillemets
Unless a man is master of his soul all other kinds of mastery amount to little.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Remember, your prerogative is to govern, and not to serve the things of this world.
~ Thomas a Kempis
Figure out your niche and maximize it.
~ P. J. Tucker
Anarchism is necessarily anti-capitalist in that it "opposes the exploitation of man by man." But anarchism also opposes "the dominion of man over man." It insists that "socialism will be free or it will not be at all. In its recognition of this lies the genuine and profound justification for the existence of anarchism.
~ Noam Chomsky
As the wheel of time turned, there came those who pushed aside the old gods for the gods of greed, for the lust of dominion over the land and the sea, for the glory of what some deemed progress.
~ Nora Roberts
How folks lay claim to a loved one is they give you a name of their own. They figure to label you as their property.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
And I say, that's different. Humans are above animals. Animals were put on this planet to feed and serve humanity. Human beings are precious and intelligent and unique, and God gave the animals to us. They're our property. Of course you'd say that, Helen says, you're on the winning team.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Before you can truly submit, you must learn to control your reactions, your responses, your desires and your needs. Before you give yourself fully to another, you must first become the master of yourself." He
~ Claire Thompson
What marked this place as another Dominion was the people in the streets outside, some human, many not, all retreating from the wind or the commotions it carried.
~ Clive Barker
Well, she's lucky. She still has her little dominion here in Coldheart Canyon.
~ Clive Barker
I lived, I suppose, in a cell of my own creation, while outside its walls lay a landscape of unparalleled richness. But I could not bear to venture there. In my self-delusion I thought I was a minor king, and I didn't want to step beyond the bounds of what I knew for fear I lost my dominion.
~ Clive Barker
To Romans I set no boundary in space or time. I have granted them dominion, and it has no end.
~ Virgil