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Quotes about Dominance

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
— CS Lewis
Whoever can do as he pleases, commands when he entreats.
— Pierre Corneille
We want very good leaders who have a lot of power.
— Charlie Munger
I'm the man of the hour, the man with the power, too sweet to be sour.
— Billy Graham
Law always chooses sides on the basis of enforcement power. Morality and legal niceties have little to do with it when the real question is: Who has the clout?
— Frank Herbert
The depositary of power is always unpopular.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Power always protects the good of some at the expense of all others.
— Thomas Merton
Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.
— Philip Yancey
He who achieves power by violence does not truly become lord or master.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.
— William Hazlitt
Man is the hunter; woman is his game.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson