Dominance Quotes - Page 6

• 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.

  Catharine MacKinnon

  Sex, Men, Males

  Catharine A. MacKinnon (1989). “Toward a Feminist Theory of the State”, p.113, Harvard University Press

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

  Nicholas Rodger

  Water, Projects, British

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• Nietzsche saw in the Protestant ethic, in both its religious and secular (economic) forms, a final protest before the emergence into dominance of the ordered, bourgeois world of the 'last man' he who will pay any price in tedium for comfort and the absence of tension.

  John Carroll

  Religious, Men, Comfort

  John Carroll (2010). “Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky”, p.78, Taylor & Francis

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• Women themselves condition their daughters to serve the system of male primacy. If a daughter challenges it, the mother will generally defend the system rather than her daughter. These mothers, victims themselves, have unwittingly become wounded wounders. Women need to attack culture's oppression of women, for there truly is a godlike socializing power that induces women to "buy in" or collude, but we also need to confront our own part in accepting male dominance and take responsibility where appropriate.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Mother, Daughter, Women

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• Feminism is not antisexuality. On the contrary. It says that sexuality shouldn't be confused with violence and dominance and that it should be a matter of free choice. It shouldn't be forced on you by economics, including dependence on a husband, or by pressure.

  Gloria Steinem

  Husband, Confused, Choices

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• 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.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Development, World, Territory

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• What's important about poetry in the context of leadership is that most of the time, power has to do with dominance. But poetry is never about dominance. Poetry is powerful but it cannot even aspire to dominate anyone. It means making a connection. That's what it means.

  June Jordan

  Powerful, Mean, Poetry

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• All the accoutrements that distinguish us from animal existence were put in place when we had a different kind of mind than we have now. We didn't have a mind that favored role specialization, and male dominance, and anxiety over female sexual activity related to feelings of male ownership. That all came later.

  Terence McKenna

  Animal, Anxiety, Feelings

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

  Lynne Tillman

  Waiting, World, Dutch

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• I think we're in an era of unprecedented dominance by corporations. I think people understand that deeply; I don't think that's even questioned.

  Josh Fox

  Thinking, People, Corporations

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

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• The dominance of short-term perspectives has led to routine decisions in the markets that sacrifice the long-term buildup of genuine value in pursuit of artificial, short-term gains.

  Al Gore

  Sacrifice, Long, Perspective

  Interview with John McMurtrie, www.sfgate.com. February 17, 2013.

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• Democracy, in the United States rhetoric refers to a system of governance in which elite elements based in the business community control the state by virtue of their dominance of the private society, while the population observes quietly. So understood, democracy is a system of elite decision and public ratification, as in the United States itself. Correspondingly, popular involvement in the formation of public policy is considered a serious threat. It is not a step towards democracy; rather it constitutes a 'crisis of democracy' that must be overcome.

  Noam Chomsky

  Money, Community, Decision

  Noam Chomsky (1990). “On Power and Ideology”, p.6, Black Rose Books Ltd.

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• The idea of man as the dominant mammal of the earth whose whole behaviour tends to be dominated by his own desire for dominance gripped me. It seemed to explain almost everything, and I applied it to everything.

  Frank Macfarlane Burnet

  Motivation, Men, Ideas

  Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet (1972). “Dominant Mammal: The Biology of Human Destiny”

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• With psychedelics, if you're fortunate and break through, you understand what is truly of value in life. Material, power, dominance, and territory have no value. People wouldn't fight wars, and the whole system we have currently would fall apart. People would become peaceful, loving citizens, not robots marching around in the dark with all their lights off.

  Gary Fisher

  War, Fall, Dark

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

  Shia LaBeouf

  Twilight, Economic

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• You've been told that you're broken, that you're damaged goods and should be labeled victims. I don't buy it. The truth, instead, is that you are the only folks with the skills, determination, and values to ensure American dominance in this chaotic world.

  James Mattis

  Veterans Day, Determination, Skills

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• 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.

  Margaret Mead

  Order, Immigration, Certain

  Margaret Mead (2000). “And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America”, p.40, Berghahn Books

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• Commerce, trade and exchange make other people more valuable alive than dead, and mean that people try to anticipate what the other guy needs and wants. It engages the mechanisms of reciprocal altruism, as the evolutionary biologists call it, as opposed to raw dominance.

  Steven Pinker

  Mean, People, Guy

  "The Importance of Being Businessworthy" by Per L. Saxegaard, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 4, 2015.

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• There needs to be an order of office, but in every single office that is presented in the Scriptures there is the personal emphasis within that legal concept. In the Church the elder is an office-bearer. But both the preaching elders and the ruling elders are "ministers," and the word "minister" is a personal relationship, it does not speak of dominance. There is to be order in the Church, but the preaching elder or the ruling elder is to be a minister, with a loving personal relationship with those who are before him, even when they are wrong and need admonition.

  Francis Schaeffer

  God, Order, Office

  Francis Schaeffer (2012). “True Spirituality”, p.138, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• We all have demons inside us, Nick. The Tsalagi have an old saying—every heart holds two wolves. One is the white wolf, who is made up of love, kindness, respect, decency, compassion, and all the things that are good in life. The black wolf is born of jealousy, hatred, pettiness, prejudice, vindictiveness, and all the poisons of the human personality. The two constantly war with each other for dominance. And one day, one wolf will overtake and devour the other.” - Acheron

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Kindness, War, Heart

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2013). “Inferno: Chronicles of Nick”, p.71, Macmillan

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• The Russians are bent on world dominance, and they are rapidly acquiring the means to become the most powerful imperial nation the world has seen. The men in the Soviet Politburo do not have to worry about the ebb and flow of public opinion. They put guns before butter, while we put just about everything before guns.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Powerful, Mean, Gun

  Margaret Thatcher (1997). “The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher”, HarperCollins

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• 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.

  Robert Redford

  People, Heritage, Development

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• 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.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Challenges, Males, Female

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• Yes, everyone in the districts will be watching me to see how I handle this death sentence, this final act of President Snow’s dominance. They will be looking for some sign that their battles have not been in vain. If I can make it clear that I’m still defying the Capitol right up to the end, the Capitol will have killed me…but not my spirit. What better way to give hope to the rebels?

  Suzanne Collins

  President Snow, Giving, Battle

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• 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.

  Nicos Poulantzas

  Mean, Class, Political

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