Quote by John Stuart Mill

“We all possess, like it or not, the people we know, and are possessed by them in turn.”

— William Boyd

“The power he commanded insisted upon subjects. Strength was ever relative, and he could not dominate without the company of the dominated.”

— Steven Erikson

“It wasn’t about physical domination for me. It still isn’t. It’s about that emotional transfer of power: the command and control. That’s what turns…

— Jason Luke

“We are possessed by nobody, not even by ourselves.”

— Graham Greene

“It was all quite natural, human beings are created in order to torment one another.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“I wasn't into all that power and domination crap, but with her, man, I could play lord and master all day long if she…

— Jay Crownover

“I think it came from being a ruling class, from never being able to show weakness to the people they have conquered - to…

— Peter Cunningham

“This little man was of the order of beings who must not be opposed, unless you possessed an all-dominant force sufficient to crush him…

— Charlotte Brontë

“As she observed, “the first essential step on the road to total domination is to kill the juridical person in man.”

— Timothy Snyder

“Reluctantly he realized some forces could not be conquered and some vengeances can never be sated.”

— Bill Willingham

“But I think maybe we had all found something too. The courage to face the pieces of ourselves that frighten us the most. And…

— Elle Cosimano

“When something is finished, it cannot be possessed. Nothing can be possessed but the struggle.”

— Flannery O'Connor