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If an EHM is completely successful, the loans are so large that the debtor is forced to default on its payments after a few years. When this happens, then like the Mafia we demand our pound of flesh. This often includes one or more of the following: control over United Nations votes, the installation of military bases, or access to precious resources such as oil or the Panama Canal. Of course, the debtor still owes us the money—and another country is added to our global empire.
- John Perkins
This got him to the door. There, ridiculously, he turned. It was only at the door, he decided in retrospect, that her conduct was quite in excusable: not only did she stand unncessarily close, but, by shifting the weight of her body to one leg and leaning her head sidewise, she lowered her height several inches, placing him in a dominating position exactly suited to the broad, passive shadows she must have known were on her face. ("Snowing in Greenwich Village)
- John Updike
Aristocracy is kept up by family tyranny and injustice.
- Thomas Paine
Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds and these magnets attract to us the forces, the people, the circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts.
- Napoleon Hill
No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.
- Euripides
The future is the only kind of property that the masters willingly concede to the slaves.
- Albert Camus
Control of space means control of the world.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
Spiritual force is stronger than material force; thoughts rule the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One must do violence to the object of one's desire when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
- Marquis de Sade
What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you...every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.
- Marquis de Sade
An ambitious wolf will rise above a complacent lion.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.
- Milan Kundera