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Quotes about Dominance

It is the pride of kings that throws man kind into confusion.
- Thomas Paine
The narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all machinery.
- Walt Whitman
Authority in the world is being increasingly undermined until at the end all authorities will be overthrown and lawlessness shall rule.
- Watchman Nee
The rule, acknowledged or not, seems to be that if we have great power we must use it. We would use a steam shovel to pick up a dime. We have experts who can prove there is no other way to do it.
- Wendell Berry
There is a lure in power. It can get into a man's blood just as gambling and lust for money have been known to do.
- Harry S. Truman
Michael Jordan and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar were the two guys with unstoppable moves.
- Andre Iguodala
The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure.
- Elias Canetti
When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.
- Madeleine L'Engle
I like to do all the talking myself.  It saves time, and prevents arguments." "But
- Oscar Wilde
If the white man has inflicted the wound of racism upon black men, the cost has been that he would receive the mirror image of that wound into himself. As the master, or as a member of the dominant race, he has felt little compulsion to acknowledge or speak of it; the more painful it has grown the more deeply he has hidden it within himself. But the wound is there, and is a profound disorder, as great a damage in his mind as it is in his society.
- Wendell Berry
His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.
- William Golding
The one aim of these financiers is world control by the creation of inextinguishable debt.
- Henry Ford