Quotes about Dominance

The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent.

I never had a political power base.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his turn.

He possessed the power to depart, as much as a cat possesses the power to leave a mouse half killed, or a bird half eaten.

I'll not do anything, though you should swear your tongue out, except what I please!

It ended. Well, we must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering - and it ended when circumstances caused each to feel that one's interest was not the chief consideration in the other's thoughts.

The real tragedy of humankind,' Shealtiel used to say, 'is not that the persecuted and enslaved crave to be liberated and to hold their heads high. No. The worst thing is that the enslaved secretly dream of enslaving their enslavers. The persecuted yearn to be persecutors. The slaves dream of being masters. As in the book of Esther.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

A time would come when nobody in the State would dare antagonise the BJP if they were to conduct politics in Tamil Nadu.

I have three Defensive Players of the Year. Only one other player has done that. But being a defensive lineman, it's hard to control the game.