Quotes about Dominance
Things are in the saddle, And ride mankind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
the colonel surged to his feet like a gigantic belch
- Joseph Heller
Pharaoh is clearly a metaphor. He embodies and represents raw, absolute, worldly power. He is, like Pilate after him, a stand-in for the whole of the empire. As the agent of the "empire of force," he reappears in many different personae.9
- Walter Brueggemann
To be "defiled" by empire is to be robbed of a distinct identity that permits freedom against dominant culture. "Fasting" as alert abstention may be the order of the day that will make the asking of prayers more serious and compelling.
- Walter Brueggemann
The outcome is to delegitimize and deconstruct the kings in effective ways in order to show that while they occupy the forms of power, they lack the substance of power.
- Walter Brueggemann
Oppressors themselves acknowledge that even the weakest of their subjects must agree to be oppressed.
- James Carse
The exercise of power always presupposes resistance. Power is never evident until two or more elements are in opposition.
- James Carse
Sexuality is the only finite game in which the winner's prize is the defeated opponent.
- James Carse
I've always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.
- Steve Jobs
The hold on power always ends. While death will surely break it, someone else usually grabs it before then.
- Michael Wolff
I walk into a room Just as cool as you please, And to a man, The fellows stand or Fall down on their knees.
- Maya Angelou
For the power of Man to make himself what he pleases means... the power of some men to make other men what THEY please.
- CS Lewis