Quotes about Dominance

When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.

I like to do all the talking myself.  It saves time, and prevents arguments." "But

If the white man has inflicted the wound of racism upon black men, the cost has been that he would receive the mirror image of that wound into himself. As the master, or as a member of the dominant race, he has felt little compulsion to acknowledge or speak of it; the more painful it has grown the more deeply he has hidden it within himself. But the wound is there, and is a profound disorder, as great a damage in his mind as it is in his society.

His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.

The one aim of these financiers is world control by the creation of inextinguishable debt.

A mind dominated by positive emotions, becomes a favorable abode for the state of mind known as faith. A mind so dominated may, at will, give the subconscious mind instructions, which it will accept and act upon immediately.

Men who control themselves usually boss the job, no matter what it may be.

What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

I believe - though I may be wrong, because I'm no expert - that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money, power and oil.