Dominance Quotes

• It is the law of nature that woman should be held under the dominance of man.

  Confucius

  Men, Law, Should

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• State capitalism is about more than emergency government spending, implementation of more intelligent regulation, or a stronger social safety net. It's about state dominance of economic activity for political gain.

  Ian Bremmer

  Intelligent, Government, Safety

  "The End of the Free Market: Six Questions for Ian Bremmer". Interview with Scott Horton, harpers.org. May 07, 2010.

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• Like many works of literature, Hollywood chooses for its villains people who strive for social dominance through the pursuit of wealth, prestige, and power. But the ordinary business of capitalism is much more egalitarian: It's about finding meaning and enjoyment in work and production.

  Alex Tabarrok

  Egalitarianism, People, Hollywood

  "Capitalism: Hollywood's Miscast Villain". www.wsj.com. June 04, 2010.

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• Africa suffered under European dominance for centuries.

  Jacob Zuma

  Century

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• Sadomasochism is an institutionalized celebration of dominant/subordinate relationships. And, it prepares us either to accept subordination or to enforce dominance. Even in play, to affirm that the exertion of power over powerlessness is erotic, is empowering, is to set the emotional and social stage for the continuation of that relationship, politically, socially, and economically.

  Audre Lorde

  Emotional, Play, Empowering

  Audre Lorde (2017). “A Burst of Light: And Other Essays”, p.4, Courier Dover Publications

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• Unlike all other founders of a religious faith, Christ had no selfishness, no desire of dominance; and His system, unlike all other systems of worship, was bloodless, boundlessly beneficent, and--most marvelous of all--went to break all bonds of body and soul, and to cast down every temporal and every spiritual tyranny.

  Alfred William Howitt

  Spiritual, Religious, Soul

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 60, 1895.

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

  Eckhart Tolle

  Love, Joy, Mind

  Twitter post from Oct 07, 2009

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• Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality.

  Gloria Steinem

  Pornography

  Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions "Erotica vs. Pornography" (1983)

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• There is a strange kind of human being in whom there is an eternal struggle between body and soul, animal and god, for dominance. In all great men this mixture is striking, and in none more so than in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

  Alfred Einstein

  Struggle, Animal, Men

  Alfred Einstein (1962). “Mozart, His Character, His Work”, p.3, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• 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.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Acceptance, Scotland, Outsiders

  Alexander McCall Smith (2007). “Espresso Tales”, p.31, Anchor

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• Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard.

  Naomi Wolf

  Gold, Male Dominance, Currency

  Naomi Wolf (2009). “The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• I think for the U.S. government the Sandinistas represented a threat to their dominance of Latin America.

  Bianca Jagger

  Latin, Thinking, Government

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• The notion of a neutral, mainstream national media gained dominance only in World War II and in its aftermath, when what turned out to be a temporary moderate consensus came to govern the country.

  Howard Fineman

  Country, War, Media

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

  Janeane Garofalo

  Iraq, Sake, Conflict

  "No Kidding". www.washingtonpost.com. January 27, 2003.

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

  Gerhard Schroder

  Germany, Favors, Want

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• 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.

  James A. Baldwin

  Love, Soul, Nightmare

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• My father's generation gave to my generation a land of wealth and purpose and world economic dominance.

  Paul Tsongas

  Father, Land, Generations

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• It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all.

  Betty Friedan

  Husband, Home, Son

  BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). “The Feminine Mystique”

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• I've had lengthy discussions with European farm leaders. It is clear they have an agricultural strategy to support their producers and gain dominance in world agricultural trade. They're gaining markets the old-fashioned way - they're buying them.

  Kent Conrad

  Support, Leader, World

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• A radical inner transformation and rise to a new level of consciousness might be the only real hope we have in the current global crisis brought on by the dominance of the Western mechanistic paradigm.

  Stanislav Grof

  Real, Community, Society

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• I am very sad for men and women trapped in any relationship where there is cruelty, dominance, inequity. I long for the liberation of all people.

  Jasmine Guy

  Men, Long, People

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• I think we can rule out 'mixed brain dominance' as a cause of your poor performance at school, Charlie Brown" "Have you ruled out stupidity?" "Peanuts", Charles M

  Charles M. Schulz

  School, Thinking, Stupidity

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• The United States has made a massive effort since the end of the Second World War to secure the dominance of its films in foreign markets - an achievement generally pushed home politically, by writing clauses into various treaties and aid packages.

  Fredric Jameson

  War, Home, Writing

  Fredric Jameson (2009). “Valences of the Dialectic”, Verso Books

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• 'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.

  Naomi Wolf

  Self Esteem, Age, Gold

  1990 The Beauty Myth, ch.1,'The Beauty Myth'.

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• Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards.

  James S. Coleman

  Teacher, Teaching, School

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