#domination

Like that's the only reason anyone would ever buy a first-aid kit? Don't take this the wrong way, Professor McGonagall, but what sort of crazy children are you used to dealing with?" "Gryffindors," spat Professor McGonagall, the word carrying a freight of bitterness and despair that fell like an eternal curse on all youthful heroism and high spirits. ↗

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

#harry-potter #world-domination #heroism

I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important to America's role as a light among nations. But there are no values that matter to me that will not be gravely endangered if we lose this war. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#among #democrat #domination #endangered #government

The East India Company's domination of the Indian economy was based on its private army. ↗

— Robert Trout

#based #company #domination #east #economy

It is a matter of common knowledge that the government of South Carolina is under domination of a small ring of cunning, conniving men. ↗

— Strom Thurmond

#common #common knowledge #cunning #domination #government

The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the degrees of civilization. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

#among #arbitrary #arbitrary power #civilization #degrees

The world will not accept dictatorship or domination. ↗

— Mikhail Gorbachev

#dictatorship #domination #will #world

What you see is that the most outstanding feature of life's history is a constant domination by bacteria. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#constant #domination #feature #history #life

Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs of psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of every man by himself. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#chains #control #crime #domination #every

Of course the barbarians' aim of world domination has not escaped the attention of the Europeans, perhaps because unlike us they are closer to the walls. ↗

— Barbara Amiel

#attention #barbarians #because #closer #course

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#matrimony #particularly #similarity #taste #tastes