Dominance Quotes - Page 3

• Of course, we can distinguish between males and females; we can also, if we choose, distinguish between different age categories; but any more advanced distinction comes close to pedantry, probably a result of boredom. A creature that is bored elaborates distinctions and hierarchies. According to Hutchinson and Rawlins, the development of systems of hierarchical dominance within animal societies does not correspond to any practical necessity, nor to any selective advantage; it simply constitutes a means of combating the crushing boredom of life in the heart of nature.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Crush, Heart, Mean

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• One of the great commandments of science is, 'Mistrust arguments from authority'. (Scientists, being primates, and thus given to dominance hierarchies, of course do not always follow this commandment.)

  Carl Sagan

  Hierarchy, Argument, Scientist

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.52, Ballantine Books

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• Often men's impulses to coerce and degrade women seem to express not a confident assumption of dominance but a desire to retaliate for feelings of rejection, humiliation, and impotence: as many men see it, they need women sexually more than women need them, an intolerable balance of power.

  Ellen Willis

  Men, Rejection, Feelings

  Ellen Willis (2012). “No More Nice Girls: Countercultural Essays”, p.33, U of Minnesota Press

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• Based on all criteria - military power, economic influence, cultural dominance - America remains number one, even though other, new players are increasingly challenging it in that role.

  Robert Kagan

  Military, Player, Numbers

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• Dominance is one of the most pervasive and important behaviors among wolves in a pack.

  L. David Mech

  Important, Behavior, Packs

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

  L. David Mech

  Summer, Islands, Saws

  "Alpha status, dominance, and division of labor in wolf packs". Canadian Journal of Zoology, Volume 77: 1196-1203, 1999.

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

  Betty Friedan

  Men, Honest, Burden

  Interview with David Sheff, "Playboy", September 1992.

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• As a result of World War II, European artists migrated to America, enlarging the scene and diminishing Paris as the center. America was beginning its dominance of the art world with the emergence of the Abstract Expressionists.

  Arne Glimcher

  Art, War, Paris

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Leader, Heaven, Eras

  "Aviation, Geography, and Race". Reader's Digest, pp. 64-67, November 1939.

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• Of course it's possible for political essays to be artful. I just want to call into question the dominance of content over form in the history of the essay. I want us to recognize that there's art involved in making this stuff, because we still don't approach the constructed nature of the essay with the same appreciation that we do poetry or fiction.

  John D'Agata

  Appreciation, Art, Political

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, the United States would enter, in a formal way, what had been up to that date strictly a European conflict. Marcus Garvey's prophecy about the European scramble to maintain dominance over the whole world was now a reality.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Reality, United States, World

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• One of the weapons Marvel used in its climb to comic-book dominance was a willingness to invent new characters at a dizzying speed. There are so many Marvel universes, indeed, that some superheroes do not even exist in one another's worlds, preventing gridlock.

  Roger Ebert

  Book, Character, Superhero

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.33, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• 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.

  Richard A. Falk

  Mixtures, Legitimacy, Ambiguous

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The problem with the finance sector is not that it has crashed (though that has done enormous damage around the world) but the damage that it did even in its pomp. It is for that reason that we must not go back to business as usual. Most of all it is imperative we reduce the dominance of finance. And that means economically, ideologically, and in terms of political voice.

  Doreen Massey

  Mean, Voice, Political

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I would not say that Harvard possesses any sort of absolute dominance. And I personally do not take the rankings of schools all that seriously. However, I think that Harvard's global visibility increased significantly in the 1930s and 1940s and that the new commitment to excellence at Harvard spread to other institutions.

  Henry Rosovsky

  Commitment, School, Thinking

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Turkey is saying that it wants to preserve Sunni dominance in Mosul. Obviously, there, the Kurds, the Shia, the Iraqi government have their own agendas.

  Patrick Cockburn

  Government, Turkeys, Agendas

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• If you have a conversation "Why is it you think masculinity is linked with heterosexuality? Or why is it you think masculinity is linked with sexual dominance or the sexually active position in the sex act?" If you start to ask people those questions, then they realize "Maybe gender is not one thing. Maybe I have collected a number of things under one category and I've made a mistake".

  Judith Butler

  Sex, Mistake, Thinking

  Source: ilga.org

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

  Paul Virilio

  Geopolitics, Crisis, Emergence

  Source: ctheory.net

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• Doubt, or the absence of faith and naivete, is a vice peculiar to this age, for no one is obedient nowadays; and naivete, which means the dominance of temperament in the manner, is a gift from God, possessed by very few.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Mean, Doubt, Age

  Charles Baudelaire (1981). “Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Artists”, p.102, CUP Archive

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• It is not coincidental that for so-called religious fundamentalists - whether they are Western or Eastern, Muslim or Christian - rigid male dominance and "holy wars" are priorities. Or that competing sects of the same religion, such as Sunni and Shia, are at each other's throats. In these cultures, women are rigidly controlled by men.

  Riane Eisler

  Christian, Religious, War

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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

  Frans de Waal

  Strong, Males, Chimpanzees

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• If you live in the [Middle East] area, you see [U.S actions] as part of a continuing drive for dominance, and with it a kind of obduracy, a stubborn opposition to the wishes and desires and aspirations of the people there.

  Edward Said

  People, Desire, Wish

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I want to see a more progressive Democratic ticket. I'm not happy with the Democratic Leadership Council's dominance of the party. And although I'm unlikely to be the person, I want Wisconsin's progressivism to influence the ticket. And we'll do better as a party if we do. We'll have more energy. We'll have a broader tent.

  Russ Feingold

  Party, Energy, Want

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild for The Progressive Magazine, www.thirdworldtraveler.com. May 2002.

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• Globalization can be very unjust and unfair and unequal, but these are matters under our control. It’s not that we don’t need the market economy. We need it. But the market economy should not have priority or dominance over other institutions.

  Amartya Sen

  Priorities, Needs, Unjust

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 29, 2011.

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• I think in most couples or partnerships, there's a constant struggle for power and dominance.

  Alice Lowe

  Couple, Struggle, Thinking

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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