Quotes about domination (1344 quotes, page 14)

“Governments are by their nature aggressive and dominating. No society is safe if its neighbor is a state.”

Peter Gelderloos (1982) American anarchist

Source: "The Failure of Nonviolence" (2013) https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/peter-gelderloos-the-failure-of-nonviolence, Chapter 2. Recuperation is How We Lose

Nature

“The woman wants to dominate, the man wants to be dominated”

Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) German philosopher

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Kant, Immanuel (1996), page 220
Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View (1798)

“If we continue to use industrial resources for other purposes – defence, housing, etc. thus preventing the diversion of resources to export work, the [exchange] rate will continue to fall. ... the basic idea of internal stability of prices and employment, which had dominated economic policy for so long will not be maintainable. It will not be possible to maintain stable internal prices and wages; it will not be possible to avoid unemployment. There will be a continuous process of change and readjustment and much of this will be painful.”

Rab Butler (1902–1982) British politician

Chancellor of the Exchequer
Source: Memorandum, 'External Action' (21 February 1952) advocating Operation ROBOT, quoted in Correlli Barnett, The Verdict of Peace. Britain Between Her Yesterday and the Future (London: Pan, 2002), p. 162

Idea , Pain , Housing , Change

“‘Such voices … in any case are pretty much in the minority. The dominant ideology is that which ascribes clear priority and absolute competence to shastric codification.’”

Sheldon Pollock (1948) American linguist

Quoted from Rajiv Malhotra, The Battle for Sanskrit (2016)

“Moving beyond orientalism finally presupposes moving beyond the culture of domination and the politics of coercion that have nurtured orientalism in all its varieties, and been nurtured by it in turn.”

Sheldon Pollock (1948) American linguist

(Pollock 1993:117), quoted in Elst, Koenraad (2018). Still no trace of an Aryan invasion: A collection on Indo-European origins.

“The spirit of the Right is dominated by scepticism towards the possibility of profound change in society and above all towards the idea that man can achieve progress over himself. On the Left, on the other hand, there exists a belief in human and social progress.”

Jacques Delors (1925) French economist and politician

L'Unité d'un Homme (November 1994), quoted in The Times (21 November 1994), p. 11
President of the European Commission

Idea , Change

“Humanity could live in peace - but it doesn't, because from the cradle we are taught to compete and fight, win, dominate and kill each other. These lessons and the world view behind them becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy: a state of affairs is created where you have to compete, fight and kill.”

Yrjö Kallinen (1886–1976) Finnish politician

World , Self-confidence , Peace , Fight

“The herdist instinct is furthermore not only personal, in the sense that it clamors for a personal collectivism; it creates also a longing and desire for the visual or acoustic contemplation of identitarian or uniformistic phenomena. The true herdist, the man truly dominated by that inferior instinct, will not only rejoice in marching amongst twenty thousand uniformly clad soldiers, all stepping rhythmically in one direction, but he will find an almost equal gratification in contemplating the show from a balcony. He will not only be happy in sitting amidst two hundred other bespectacled businessmen, drinking beer and humming one chant in unison, but the aspect of a skyscraper with a thousand identical windows will probably impress him more than a picture by Botticelli or Zurbarán.”

Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn (1909–1999) Austrian noble and political theorist

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The Menace of the Herd (1943)

Drink , Beer , Personality , Happiness

“When a man has sufficiently distinguished himself by service, and by acquiring and accepting the theoretical views that were glanced at in 'Seeking the Master' then he finds his Master — or rather his Master finds him. During all the time of his struggle those gracious eyes have been upon him watching him progress; in many lives in the past he has come under the same influence which now is to become the dominant influence in his life. He has reached a point where the Master can reveal Himself, can place him definitely on probation, can help to prepare him for Initiation. That is the first stage: a particular Master chooses a particular aspirant and takes charge of him, in order to prepare him for Initiation; for you must remember that Initiation is a quite definite thing, that only Those who have already attained can enable others to enter on the Path which They Themselves have trodden.”

Annie Besant (1847–1933) British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator

Source: Initiation, The Perfecting of Man, 1923, p. 61

Past , Life , Time , Help

“We need to have perspectives in candidates that reflect the perspectives of a younger generation... Young people have demands and unmet needs. One thing I want to do is say that we can make change and enact legislation that will help. Investment in clean energy, environmental action, real criminal justice reform, and college debt reform are issues that matter to millennials but get little attention in a Senate dominated by boomers and members of the Greatest Generation.”

Jon Ossoff (1987) American politician

Quoted in Fortune (magazine), Jon Ossoff becomes the only senator under 40, injecting some much-needed youth, by Nicole Goodkind, (6 January 2021)

Justice , Help , People , Making love

“As new technologies search out and lace over every interstice in the net of global communication, we find ourselves with increasingly less excuse for…slack. And that, I would argue, is what the World Wide Web, the test pattern for whatever will become the dominant global medium, offers us. Today, in its clumsy, larval, curiously innocent way, it offers us the opportunity to waste time…It will probably evolve into something considerably less random, and less fun — we seem to have a knack for that — but in the meantime, in its gloriously unsorted Global Ham Television Postcard Universes phase, surfing the Web is a procrastinator’s dream. And people who see you doing it might even imagine you’re working.”

William Gibson book Distrust That Particular Flavor

"The Net Is a Waste of Time," The New York Times Magazine, July 14, 1996.
Distrust That Particular Flavor (2012)

Imagination , Time , Search , Dreams

“We need to be there walking alongside the Aboriginal people. And they appreciate us being there, but they’ve had their lives dominated by others, controlled by others.”

Charles Gauci (1952) Bishop of Darwin

People

“The soul completely dominated by its desire for spiritual instruction is never sated.It is because of this that Wisdom says of herself, 'Those who eat Me will still be hungry' (Eccles. 24:21); while the Lord, who has instilled this divine desire in the soul, says of Mary who chose 'what is best' that it will not be taken away from her (cf. Luke 10:42).”

Gregory Palamas (1296–1359) Monk and archbishop

Source: To the Most Reverend Nun Xenia (c. 1344), p. 295

Soul , Wisdom

“We must reject any thinking of our cities as a "battlespace" that our uniformed military is called upon to "dominate."”

James Mattis (1950) 26th and current United States Secretary of Defense; United States Marine Corps general

At home, we should use our military only when requested to do so, on very rare occasions, by state governors. Militarizing our response, as we witnessed in Washington, D.C., sets up a conflict — a false conflict — between the military and civilian society. It erodes the moral ground that ensures a trusted bond between men and women in uniform and the society they are sworn to protect, and of which they themselves are a part.
In Union There Is Strength (2020)

Thinking

“Religion translates metaphysical or universal truths into dogmatic language; now though dogma is not accessible to all men in its intrinsic truth, which can only be directly attained by the Intellect, it is nonetheless accessible through faith, which is, for the great majority, the only possible mode of participation in the Divine Truths. As for intellectual knowledge, which proceeds neither from belief nor from a process of reasoning, it goes beyond dogma in the sense that, without ever contradicting the latter, it penetrates its internal dimension, that is, the infinite Truth that dominates all forms.”

Frithjof Schuon book The Transcendent Unity of Religions

[1993, The Transcendent Unity of Religions, Quest Books, xxxi, 978-0-8356-0587-8]
Miscellaneous, Religion

Knowledge , Sense , Men , Universe

“It is not possible for one tribe to dominate another based on the way God has structured the country.”

Yemi Osinbajo (1957) 14th Vice President of Nigeria

[Buhari will do everything to make Nigeria great - Osinbajo, https://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/09/buhari-will-everything-make-nigeria-great-osinbajo/, vanguardngr.com, 29 September 2016]

God , Country , Way

“The person who constantly catches your attention dominates: instinct, heart, mood and reason.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: La persona che cattura costantemente la tua attenzione domina: istinto, cuore, umore e ragione.
Source: prevale.net

Personality , Heart , Mood

“Music dominates emotions.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) La musica domina le emozioni.
Source: prevale.net

Music

“Strong personality, ingenuity and extreme beauty intrigue the mind, seduce the soul, the senses and dominate your essence.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Forte personalità, creatività ed estrema bellezza intrigano la mente, seducono l'anima, i sensi e dominano la tua essenza.
Source: prevale.net

Soul , Strong , Beauty , Personality

“What makes the mind fall in love dominates your existence.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Ciò che innamora la mente domina la tua esistenza.
Source: prevale.net

Love

“Anyone who’d volunteer for alien domination doesn’t really deserve to have his or her freedom.”

Rudy Rucker book Master of Space and Time

Source: Master of Space and Time (1984), Chapter 16, “Blue Gluons” (p. 126)

Freedom

“Over the years, obviously since I’ve been so dominant, everybody supported the gymnastics and praised me for what I’ve done in the gym — and not really outside”

Simone Biles (1997) American gymnast

of the gym
"'First time I felt human': Simone Biles gets honest about what happened at the Olympics" in Today (30 August 2021) https://www.today.com/news/simone-biles-gets-candid-about-what-happened-olympics-t229382

Support

“The advice of our parents will vary according to the country we are currently living in and the dominant political ideologies (politideos) of that environment.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Country , Parent

“But theatre is so dominated by men that no matter what kind of sheltered bubble you’re in, you’re going to encounter sexist bullshit. That’s just always going to be an issue…”

Young Jean Lee (1974) American theatre director and playwright

On sexism still being prevalent despite calls for diversity in “An Interview with Young Jean Lee” https://www.theintervalny.com/interviews/2018/08/an-interview-with-young-jean-lee/ in The Interval (2018 Aug 14)

Men

“We need a paradigm shift from a male-dominated economic mantra to an inclusive and transformational nation- building approach that can be enshrined in our people-driven constitution”

Thokozani Khuphe (1963) Deputy Prime Minister of Zimbabwe

Source: Zimbabwe: Recognise Women's Role - Khupe http://www.peacewomen.org/content/zimbabwe-recognise-womens-role-khupe

People

“The call to abolish the prison as the dominant form of punishment cannot ignore the extent to which the institution of the prison has stockpiled ideas and practices that are hopefully approaching obsolescence in the larger society, but that retain their ghastly vitality behind prison walls.”

Angela Davis Are Prisons Obsolete?

Source: Are Prisons Obsolete? (2003), Chapter Four

Idea

“In the absence of more consumers, capital finds ways to get existing consumers to consume more. Indeed, the dominant story for the past few hundred years: the growth rate of material use has always significantly outstripped the growth rate of the population.”

Jason Hickel (1982) author

Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World (2021)
Source: Rise of the Juggernaut, pp. 111-112

Past , Way

“The professional food world is dominated by men. But most of the actual cooking of food in the world is done by women. And we women have always had to make do with whatever we can. We’re a little bit like water—we find our way because we’ve had to.”

Padma Lakshmi (1970) Indian-born American author, actress, model, television host and executive producer

Source: "Padma Lakshmi, 49, Reveals Her Exact 90Minute Workout That Tones Her Abs & Her Daily Diet" in Hollywood Life https://hollywoodlife.com/2020/07/14/padma-lakshmi-workout-diet-interview/ (14 July 2020)

Water , World , Cooking , Food

“While jails and prisons have been dominant institutions for the control of men, mental institutions have served a similar purpose for women. That is, deviant men have been constructed as criminal, while deviant women have been constructed as insane.”

Angela Davis Are Prisons Obsolete?

Source: Are Prisons Obsolete? (2003), Chapter Four

Women , Men

“When a woman's charm dominates thought, a man becomes a prisoner of it.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Quando il fascino di una donna domina il pensiero, l'uomo ne diventa prigioniero.
Source: prevale.net

“It is only a matter of weeks before Omicron is dominant here in Germany.”

Olaf Scholz (1958) German politician, federal minister of finance and vice chancellor

Source: Olaf Scholz cited in: " Germany agrees new contact limits to curb COVID-19 https://www.thestar.com.my/news/world/2021/12/22/germany-agrees-new-contact-limits-to-curb-covid-19" in The Star, 22 December 2021.

“I do not intend to ask whether Christianity is “true” or “false,” or to establish, for example, the former hypothesis. Rather, what will be in question here is what Christianity considers as truth – what kind of truth it offers to people, what it endeavors to communicate to them, not as a theoretical and indifferent truth but as the essential truth that by some mysterious affinity is suitable for them, to the point that it alone is capable of assuring them salvation. We are trying to understand the form of truth that circumscribes the domain of Christianity, the milieu in which it spreads, the air that it breaths, one might say – because there are many sorts of truths, many ways of being true or false. And we are also perhaps trying to get away from the concept of truth that dominates modern thought and that, as much in and of itself as in its multiple implications, determines the world in which we live.”

Michel Henry (1922–2002) French writer

Books on Religion and Christianity, I am the Truth. Toward a philosophy of Christianity (1996)
Source: Michel Henry, I am the Truth. Toward a Philosophy of Christianity, translated by Susan Emanuel, Stanford University Press, 2003, p. 1

Communication , Falseness , Understanding , Question

“There are a lot more roses and tulips around today, in a lot more places, then there were before people took an interest in them. For a flower the path to world domination passes through humanity’s ever-shifting ideals of beauty.”

Michael Pollan book The Botany of Desire

Source: The Botany of Desire (2001), Chapter 2 (p. 79)

People , Flowers , World , Beauty

“The attitude that living things are placed here for our benefit still dominates our culture, even where its underpinnings have disappeared. We now need, for purposes of scientific understanding, to find a less human-centered view of the natural world.”

Richard Dawkins book Climbing Mount Improbable

Source: Climbing Mount Improbable (1996), Chapter 8, “Pollen Grains and Magic Bullets” (p. 258)

World , Understanding , Nature

“We are all disciples of Jesus, we are urged not to consider ourselves the owners, dominators of the faith of others. We are servants for the sake of Jesus.”

Gianfranco Gallone (1963) Italian Catholic Archbishop

President of the Bishops' Conference: "It is time Zambia became a fully-fledged missionary Church" http://www.fides.org/en/news/66379-AFRICA_ZAMBIA_President_of_the_Bishops_Conference_It_is_time_Zambia_became_a_fully_fledged_missionary_Church (18 July 2019)

Faith