Dominance isn't about bossing a woman around. It's about…

“Real Dominance isn't always measured in muscle. Nor is it always measured in Intelligence. But rather it is measured... In heart.”

— Lucian Bane

“It’s a common assumption that all power exchange-based relationships ‘should’ or ‘must’ involve punishment and/or discipline. The truth is a bit more grey. Whether…

— Kynk 101

The dominance of [an ideology] is shown by the fact that the dominated classes live their conditions of political existence through the forms of…

— Nicos Poulantzas

The idea of man as the dominant mammal of the earth whose whole behaviour tends to be dominated by his own desire for dominance…

— Frank Macfarlane Burnet

Sadomasochism is an institutionalized celebration of dominant/subordinate relationships. And, it prepares us either to accept subordination or to enforce dominance. Even in play, to…

— Audre Lorde

“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