#dominate

We are so arrogant, we forget that we are not the reason for evolution, we are not the point of evolution. We are part of evolution. Unfortunately, we believe that we've been created to dominate the planet, to dominate nature. Ain't true. ↗

— Ted Danson

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The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination. ↗

— Robert Frost

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Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other. ↗

— Carl Jung

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In oratory the will must predominate. ↗

— David Hare

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Yet through history gays have always dominated religious life and churches. ↗

— Malcolm Boyd

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The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us. ↗

— Michel Foucault

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My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father. ↗

— Hugh Leonard

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Black people dominate sports in the United States. 20% of the population and 90% of the final four. ↗

— Chris Rock

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When I grew up in the '60s, we were actually dominated by this, you know, sort of conforming '50s culture, even though we were like trying to express our own culture, like, the dominant culture was the thing that was forming us. And I think that that's true today. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

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The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity. ↗

— George Santayana

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