#domination

They (Romans) were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force - nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others. They grabbed what they could get for the sake of what was to be got. It was just robbery with violence, aggravated murder on a great scale, and men going at it blind - as is very proper for those who tackle a darkness. The conquest of the earth which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only. An idea at the back of it; not a sentimental pretence but an idea; and an unselfish belief in the idea - something you can set up, and bow down before, and offer a sacrifice to... ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#men

I have no aspirations of world domination through the pop charts. None at all. ↗

— Anne Hathaway

#charts #domination #i #none #pop

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#anyone #arrangement #domination #education #europe

The present representative of the Dedlocks is an excellent master. He supposes all his dependents to be utterly bereft of individual characters, intentions, or opinions, and is persuaded that he was born to supersede the necessity of their having any. If he were to make a discovery to the contrary, he would be simply stunned — would never recover himself, most likely, except to gasp and die. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#independence #individuality #leadership #submission #suppression

It would not do to be Lord of a universe inhabited solely by serfs. ↗

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

#leadership #lord #megalomania #sci-fi #science-fiction

The world you once knew is no more for you. ↗

— Travis Luedke

#change #control #domination #nightlife #submission

Nihilism is a natural consequence of a culture (or civilization) ruled and regulated by categories that mask manipulation, mastery and domination of peoples and nature. ↗

— Cornel West

#nihilism #social-science #nature

She is my girlfriend, I can do whatever I want to her. In fact, I’m going to take her home and fuck her from here to eternity, how about that? ↗

— Ani San

#boyfriend #domination #girlfriend #jealousy #rude

No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#domination #life #love #relationships #life

But I can tell you what your folly and injustice will compel us to do. It will compel us to be free from your domination, and more self-reliant than we have been. ↗

— John H. Reagan

#compel #domination #folly #free #i