Best 91 quotes in «dominance quotes» category

A truly submissive woman is to be treasured, cherished and protected for it is only she who can give a man the gift of dominance.

American society is very like a fish society. . . . Among certain species of fish, the only thing which determines order of dominance is length of time in the fishbowl. The oldest resident picks on the newest resident, and if the newest resident is removed to a new bowl, he, as oldest resident, will pick on the newcomers.

Control over a woman is the only form of dominance most men possess, for most men are merely subjects of more powerful men.

Dominance is a burden. Most men who are honest will admit that.

Aviation seems almost a gift from heaven to those Western nations who were already the leaders of their era, strengthening their leadership, their confidence, their dominance over other peoples.

Elizabeth A. Johnson explains that including divine female symbols and images not only challenges the dominance of male images but also calls into question the structure of patriarchy itself.

Dominance contests with other wolves are rare, if they exist at all. During my 13 summers observing the Ellesmere Island pack, I saw none.

Hence not only the crisis of geopolitics and geostrategy but also the shift towards the emergence and dominance of chronostrategy.

He should have no further trouble from her, he thought in satisfaction. Surely by now she knew his dominance over her. She would submit as easily in all matters as she had in this one. He frowned then. She had submitted, hadn´t she?

Germany is in favor of integration precisely because we don't want dominance.

If you have a pack establishing dominance in an area that involves such physical exertion, you're sucking the life out of the opposition.

I believe Saddam Hussein's strategic objective was, and remains, to assert dominance over the Gulf region.

Imperialism is capitalism at that stage of development at which the dominance of monopolies and finance capitalism is established; in which the export of capital has acquired pronounced importance; in which the division of the world among the international trusts has begun, in which the division of all territories of the globe among the biggest capitalist powers has been completed.

It's a pity we're still officially living in an age called the Holocene. The Anthropocene - human dominance of biological, chemical and geological processes on Earth - is already an undeniable reality.

Iraq is a manufactured conflict for the sake of geopolitical dominance in the area.

It must be pointed out, however, that strictly speaking it is incorrect to talk of the dominance of the pleasure principle over the course of mental processes. If such a dominance existed, the immense majority of our mental processes would have to be accompanied by pleasure or to lead to pleasure, whereas universal experience completely contradicts any such conclusion.

I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group

Male chimpanzees have an extraordinarily strong drive for dominance. They're constantly jockeying for position.

Oh, I'm sorry. Did I interrupt some sort of dominance foreplay?

Love, joy, and peace cannot flourish until you have freed yourself from mind dominance.

Naval dominance of European waters was the largest, longest, most complex and expensive project ever undertaken by the British state and society.

People are becoming more and more aware of how the dominance of development and business is altering their lives and, in particular, their own heritage.

Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality.

one question for me and others like me is whether ... we will get truly distressed, even outraged, about unearned race advantage and conferred dominance and, if so, what we will do to lessen them.

The dominance of [an ideology] is shown by the fact that the dominated classes live their conditions of political existence through the forms of dominant political discourse: this means that often they live even their revolt against domination of the system within the frame of reference of the dominant legitimacy.

The Dutch and the English, former competitors for world dominance, taught me the wisdom of waiting as well as withholding.

The Kurdish minority has been cozying up to the Iranians and given the traditional hatred between the Iranians and the Iraqis, maybe Saddam Hussein sees this as a threat to his dominance of the Kurdish area north of the 36th Parallel.

The best intentions (of respect and tolerance) can often be annoying to those whose cultures are not in dominance: we feel that we are often zoological specimens.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

The single biggest threat to man's continued dominance on the planet is the virus.

The same men who are blind and deaf to feminism are acutely sensitive to what threatens their dominance and privilege.

This is the warfare of the future. America's dominance in this arena [cybersecurity] must be unquestioned.

The State is not the nation, and the State can be modified and even abolished in its present form, without harming the nation. On the contrary, with the passing of the dominance of the State, the genuine life-enhancing forces of the nation will be liberated.

Violence within the context of policing has a sense of control and power to it, whether it is dominance, getting what you want, or acting out of emotion. At the same time, it is not ultimately satisfying and [you are] trapped in the cycle.

To be a hegemon is inherently ambiguous, usually implying some mixture of dominance and legitimacy, that is, being seen as contributing global leadership in a generally benevolent manner.

We can save ourselves, but only if we let go of the myth of dominance and mastery and learn to work with nature.

We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain, only to see them re-imposed at a European level with a European super-state exercising a new dominance from Brussels.

We're living through the twilight of American economic dominance.

Whatever Scotland was, it was not a matriarchy; whereas the United States was a profoundly matriarchal society - and much more feminine than would be suggested by all that male bravado. That was a front, and a misleading one at that; underneath the male swagger lay a passive acceptance of female dominance - a fact not always appreciated by outsiders.

A gentleman holds my hand. A man pulls my hair. A soulmate will do both.

All evil seems to arise from the desire to dominate others. Most men in our society are taught from a very early age to try to dominate. It isn’t something that they think about consciously. It operates at a subconscious level. They are taught by the adults around them and their peers. Someone dominates them and they in turn try to dominate others. They do it without even realizing it and they do it without even thinking about why. It is without question. In their conscious awareness they may aspire to grandiose ideals but their actions speak for what really motivates them from a subconscious level.

Women and men are divided by gender, made into the sexes as we know them, by the social requirements of heterosexuality, which institutionalizes male sexual dominance and female sexual submission.

A quick and brutal fuck from behind usually served as an effective reminder of where you stood in the pack hierarchy.

Assertion is a virtue, dominance is a vice.

As a wife you don’t question. By doing as you’re told, you’re relieved of the responsibility of decisions.[...]It’s a blessing. Don’t you agree?

Bush said, “Let’s start. Next time they’ll know not to be late.” Not long after that, Bush strode like clockwork into the Roosevelt Room to conduct a meeting with his newly confirmed cabinet. He noticed that one chair – that belonging to Secretary of State Colin Powell - was empty. “Lock the door,” he instructed. A few minutes later, the sound of a hand testing the doorknob could plainly be heard. The Cabinet Room erupted with laughter. Bush gave the signal, and the lock was turned for the secretary of state. Amid the levity, the president had made his point – although there were really two points, the one being: Colin Powell, whose popularity far exceeded George W. Bush’s, whom the incoming President needed far more than the other way around… was nonetheless not the big dog any longer. A contest of sorts had just taken place. And Bush had won.

By all means be submissive in the bedroom (if you are that way inclined), but don't be submissive to life. Being life's bitch is no fun at all. Life may play up in many ways, but it's up to you to take control, take charge and show life who's really calling the shots.

But I suppose it comes down to whether you think dominance and submission are about acts or about people.

Don't let people supervise your life, If you know who you are, you shouldn't be living in that prison of dominance, live by your orders, you are your own soldier.

Dominant negativity cheats reality of its mutual positives.