By conveying dominance, the powerful speakers discouraged…

“Research suggests that there are two fundamental paths to influence: dominance and prestige. When we establish dominance, we gain influence because others see us…

— Adam M. Grant

“When our audiences are skeptical, the more we try to dominate them, the more they resist. Even with a receptive audience, dominance is a…

— Adam M. Grant

In its purest sense, nicknaming is an elitist ritual practiced by those who cherish hierarchy. For preppies it's a smoke signal that allows Bunny…

— Florence King

Well, within my business, visual art, the intake is 75 per cent female and yet you look at who has showed their work and…

— Grayson Perry

“His gentleness was uncompromising; because he would not compete for dominance, he was indomitable.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“That was the way of things. He had heard of philosophers who claimed that it was possible to belong to neither group, that all…

— R. Cameron Cooke

Unlike all other founders of a religious faith, Christ had no selfishness, no desire of dominance; and His system, unlike all other systems of…

— Alfred William Howitt

Control over a woman is the only form of dominance most men possess, for most men are merely subjects of more powerful men.

— Marilyn French

It is way less certain to be a wonderful business in the future. The threat is alternative mediums of information. Every newspaper is scrambling…

— Charlie Munger

I think that the global consciousness concerning all those elements that produce tension, fractions of societies, is changing in the sense that we all…

— Gilberto Gil

I sometimes try to imagine what would have happened if we’d known the bonobo first and the chimpanzee only later—or not at all. The…

— Frans de Waal

Naval dominance of European waters was the largest, longest, most complex and expensive project ever undertaken by the British state and society.

— Nicholas Rodger

“I’m not going to deny that I want to fuck you. I can’t promise a future or that I’ll be some sniveling boyfriend who…

— D.L. Hess

Check your testosterone levels. Every study on evolutionary psychology has correlated testosterone levels with dominance.

— Mike Cernovich

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

— Sandy Berger