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“We've tended in our cosmologies to make things familiar. Despite all our best efforts, we've not been very inventive. In the West, Heaven is placid and fluffy, and Hell is like the inside of a volcano. In many stories, both realms are governed by dominance hierarchies headed by gods or devils. Monotheists talked about the king of kings. In every culture we imagined something like our own political system running the Universe. Few found the similarity suspicious.”

Source: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

“Dominance in an adaptation to anarchy and it serves no purpose in a society that has undergone a civilising process or in an international system regulated by agreements and norms. Anything that deflates the concept of dominance is likely to drive down the frequency of fights between individuals and wars.”

War Purpose Fighting Politics Individual Process Concepts International Agreement Anarchy Norm Adaptation Frequency Dominance

Author:Steven Pinker

“It is the law of nature that woman should be held under the dominance of man.”

Men Should Law Laws Of Nature Dominance

Author:Confucius

“I believe Saddam Hussein's strategic objective was, and remains, to assert dominance over the Gulf region.”

Believe I Believe Remains Iraq Objectives Regions Saddam Hussein Strategic Dominance

Author:Sandy Berger

“The removal of Saddam Hussein and his replacement by someone beholden to the United States is a key part of a broader United States strategy aimed at assuring permanent American global dominance.”

States United United States Keys Strategy Iraq Permanent Usa Saddam Hussein Dominance Removal Replacements

Author:Michael Klare

“What distinguishes our species is thought. The cerebral cortex is in a way a liberation. We need no longer be trapped in the genetically inherited behavior patterns of lizards and baboons: territoriality and aggression and dominance hierarchies. We are each of us largely responsible for what gets put in to our brains. For what as adults we wind up caring for and knowing about. No longer at the mercy of the reptile brain we can change ourselves. Think of the possibilities.”

“The Jews had a love-hate relationship with the Greek culture. They craved its civilization but resented its dominance. Josephus says they regarded Greeks as feckless, promiscuous, modernizing lightweights, yet many Jerusalemites were already living the fashionable lifestyle using Greek and Jewish names to show they could be both. Jewish conservatives disagreed; for them, the Greeks were simply idolaters.”

Shows Hate Culture Names Civilization Jew Lifestyle Greek Fashionable Love Hate Dominance Love Hate Relationship Promiscuous Feckless Greek Culture

Author:Simon Sebag-Montefiore

“Dominance is a burden. Most men who are honest will admit that.”

Men Honest Burden Dominance

Author:Betty Friedan

“Dominance contests with other wolves are rare, if they exist at all. During my 13 summers observing the Ellesmere Island pack, I saw none.”

Ifs Saws Summer Islands Packs Contests Observing Dominance

Author:L. David Mech

“Dominance is one of the most pervasive and important behaviors among wolves in a pack.”

Important Behavior Packs Dominance

Author:L. David Mech

“Based on all criteria - military power, economic influence, cultural dominance - America remains number one, even though other, new players are increasingly challenging it in that role.”

America Challenges Numbers Roles Player Influence Economic Military Remains Criteria Dominance Military Power

Author:Robert Kagan

“Often men's impulses to coerce and degrade women seem to express not a confident assumption of dominance but a desire to retaliate for feelings of rejection, humiliation, and impotence: as many men see it, they need women sexually more than women need them, an intolerable balance of power.”

Men Needs Feelings Seems Desire Balance Impulse Rejection Assumption Humiliation Sexually Dominance Degrade Impotence Coerce Balance Of Power

Book:No More Nice Girls: Countercultural Essays

Source: No More Nice Girls: Countercultural Essays

“I think for the U.S. government the Sandinistas represented a threat to their dominance of Latin America.”

Thinking Government America Threat Latin Latin America Dominance

Author:Bianca Jagger

“One of the great commandments of science is, 'Mistrust arguments from authority'. (Scientists, being primates, and thus given to dominance hierarchies, of course do not always follow this commandment.)”

Courses Given Authority Argument Scientist Commandments Hierarchy Dominance Mistrust Primates

Book:Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Source: Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“Of course, we can distinguish between males and females; we can also, if we choose, distinguish between different age categories; but any more advanced distinction comes close to pedantry, probably a result of boredom. A creature that is bored elaborates distinctions and hierarchies. According to Hutchinson and Rawlins, the development of systems of hierarchical dominance within animal societies does not correspond to any practical necessity, nor to any selective advantage; it simply constitutes a means of combating the crushing boredom of life in the heart of nature.”

“There is a collective force rising up on the earth today, an energy of the reborn feminine... This is a time of monumental shift, from the male dominance of human consciousness back to a balanced relationship between masculine and feminine.”

Source: A Woman's Worth

“Obviously, untangling sex from aggression and violence or the threat of it is going to take a very long time. And the process is going to be greatly resisted as a challenge to the very heart of male dominance and male centrality.”

Heart Long Sex Process Challenges Violence Long Time Threat Males Aggression Dominance Male Dominance Aggression And Violence

Book:Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions

Source: Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions

“Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality.”

Pornography Dominance

Author:Gloria Steinem

“My father's generation gave to my generation a land of wealth and purpose and world economic dominance.”

World Purpose Father Wealth Generations Economic Land My Generation Dominance

Author:Paul Tsongas

“Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made the Powers behave the way they did. I have no illusions on this score, nor do I believe that any Asian nation or African nation, in the same state of dominance, and with the same system of colonial profit-amassing and plunder, would have behaved otherwise.”

World Way Believe Made Matter States I Believe Nations Race Illusion Profit Wide Oppression Behave Score Exploitation Imperialism Asian Dominance Plunder

Author:Han Suyin

“There are two ways that you can gain territory from another group. One is by conquest. That's essentially the way we took California from Mexico and... Texas as well. But what's going on now may end up being a kind of recolonization of the Southwest, because the other way you can regain territory is by population infiltration and demographic dominance.... The United States will be faced with the problem that Canada has been faced with... and which our system is not prepared to accommodate.”

“A culture that supports the dominance of social values over biological values is an absolutely superior culture to one that does not, and a culture that supports the dominance of intellectual values over social values is absolutely superior to one that does not.”

Doe Values Culture Social Support Intellectual Superiors Dominance Social Values

Book:LILA An Inquriry into Morals

Source: LILA An Inquriry into Morals

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