Top 243 Dominance Quotes & Sayings

Pornography is the essential sexuality of male power: of hate, of ownership, of hierarchy; of sadism, of dominance.

The dominance of conclusions over arguments is most pronounced where emotions are involved.

The effect of dominance is not always the result of an intention to dominate.

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

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

Dominance in an adaptation to anarchy and it serves no purpose in a society that has undergone a civilising process or in an international system regulated by agreements and norms. Anything that deflates the concept of dominance is likely to drive down the frequency of fights between individuals and wars.

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

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

The Republican Party`s reacting now to the news of [Donald] Trump`s dominance in different ways. For some, they are pushing resistance.

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

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

Africa suffered under European dominance for centuries.

Your brand's power lies in dominance. It is better to have 50% of one market, instead of 10% of five markets.

Our attitudes are fostered by a society built on ideas of dominance, where the solution to crises are force and action, rather than reflection and compromise.

It's not easy being a female in the U.K. pop industry. We've seen the white male dominance, misogyny, sexism and lack of diversity.

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

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.

U.S. power flows from our unmatched military might, yes. But in a deeper way, it's a product of the dominance of the U.S. economy.

I love NBA. I enjoy it, and I also really love the dominance that LeBron James brings to the court.

Living in this world, under the dominance of the ego mind, is difficult. That's the struggle.

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

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.

My deep belief in one word? Dominance.

Most talk by whites about equal opportunity seems to me now to be about equal opportunity to try to get into a position of dominance while denying that systems of dominance exist.

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.

There were so many different factions and that's I think what my father was taking issue with was the idea of, look, you can't go from male dominance to female dominance and expect anything to be better. We're all shits, ultimately, and we've got to do the best we can together.

Without exception, the dominance and coherence of culture proved to be an essential quality of the excellent companies.

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

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

For many women today, on a personal level, the problem is not male dominance so much as male desertion.

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

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

Heathrow expansion is an object lesson in the dominance of a rapacious sector of industry over government decision-making.

As a husband, I'm a true partner. I don't believe one person should have dominance over another.

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

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

The NSA's business is 'information dominance,' the use of other people's secrets to shape events.

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

Liberal dominance of important areas of America's social and political life has undermined many of the virtues that have sustained this country.

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

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.

German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.

You need the other team to be feeling the heat when they walk on to face you and that only comes from their being wary straight off of your dominance on the field of play.

Hegemony is not defined by rivers or conventional borders - it's dominance, it's influence. So we get to decide in our hearts, are we in Iraq to help restore something, or are we there to establish dominance? How can you torture people and say, well, that's just a few bad apples in our culture?

Facebook refuses to let Google index or display content from its site. Facebook has partnered with Bing to make its results more social. Is Facebook acting to leverage its dominance in social towards a dominance in search?

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.

My expectations are to establish my dominance and kick butt. And I want to become a leader in the sport.

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

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.

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

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.

A culture that supports the dominance of social values over biological values is an absolutely superior culture to one that does not, and a culture that supports the dominance of intellectual values over social values is absolutely superior to one that does not.

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

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.

Overturning patriarchy does not mean replacing men's dominance with women's dominance. That would merely maintain the patriarchal pattern of dominance. We need to transform the pattern itself.

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

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

The dominance of daughters in the country has started rising. This is a good social change.

The aim of tai chi is not to strike first to gain dominance over an opponent, but to wait and hit at the right moment.