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Africa suffered under European dominance for centuries. -- Jacob Zuma
I am very sad for men and women trapped in any relationship where there is cruelty, dominance, inequity. I long for the liberation of all people. -- Jasmine Guy
The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love. -- James A. Baldwin
The notion of a neutral, mainstream national media gained dominance only in World War II and in its aftermath, when what turned out to be a temporary moderate consensus came to govern the country. -- Howard Fineman
A radical inner transformation and rise to a new level of consciousness might be the only real hope we have in the current global crisis brought on by the dominance of the Western mechanistic paradigm. -- Stanislav Grof
Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact. -- Naomi Wolf
There is a strange kind of human being in whom there is an eternal struggle between body and soul, animal and god, for dominance. In all great men this mixture is striking, and in none more so than in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. -- Alfred Einstein
It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all. -- Betty Friedan
Like many works of literature, Hollywood chooses for its villains people who strive for social dominance through the pursuit of wealth, prestige, and power. But the ordinary business of capitalism is much more egalitarian: It's about finding meaning and enjoyment in work and production. -- Alex Tabarrok
Dominance is a burden. Most men who are honest will admit that. -- Betty Friedan
Dominance is one of the most pervasive and important behaviors among wolves in a pack. -- L. David Mech
Dominance contests are rare, if they exist at all. During my 13 summers observing the Ellesmere Island pack, I saw none. -- L. David Mech
Japan lives with drastic segregation between the sublime, the ugly, and the utterly without qualities. Dominance of the last 2 categories makes mere presence of the first stunning: when beauty 'happens', it is absolutely surprising. -- Rem Koolhaas
Now that economic realism has finally arrived in India, the future lies in becoming a strong economic power. Dominance in the world will come only from how well a nation can cope with economic realism and towards that India must work, must find its own place under the sun. -- Mukesh Ambani
Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality. -- Gloria Steinem
We're living through the twilight of American economic dominance. -- Shia LaBeouf
Germany is in favor of integration precisely because we don't want dominance. -- Gerhard Schroder
Iraq is a manufactured conflict for the sake of geopolitical dominance in the area. -- Janeane Garofalo
Love, joy, and peace cannot flourish until you have freed yourself from mind dominance. -- Eckhart Tolle
Male chimpanzees have an extraordinarily strong drive for dominance. They're constantly jockeying for position. -- Frans de Waal
It is the law of nature that woman should be held under the dominance of man. -- Confucius
The NSA's business is 'information dominance,' the use of other people's secrets to shape events. -- Barton Gellman
My father's generation gave to my generation a land of wealth and purpose and world economic dominance. -- Paul Tsongas
I think for the U.S. government the Sandinistas represented a threat to their dominance of Latin America. -- Bianca Jagger
I think we're in an era of unprecedented dominance by corporations. I think people understand that deeply; I don't think that's even questioned. -- Josh Fox
Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards. -- James S. Coleman
The aim of tai chi is not to strike first to gain dominance over an opponent, but to wait and hit at the right moment. -- Guo Guangchang
People are becoming more and more aware of how the dominance of development and business is altering their lives and, in particular, their own heritage. -- Robert Redford
I think we can rule out 'mixed brain dominance' as a cause of your poor performance at school, Charlie Brown" "Have you ruled out stupidity?" "Peanuts", Charles M -- Charles M. Schulz
The country needs more than one-party dominance, as much as I believe the Democratic Party is the party for the middle class... We need to have a marketplace of ideas. -- Nancy Pelosi
State capitalism is about more than emergency government spending, implementation of more intelligent regulation, or a stronger social safety net. It's about state dominance of economic activity for political gain. -- Ian Bremmer
I'm suggesting that, ironically, the secret to becoming a world 'hyperpower' is tolerance. If you look at history, you see great powers being very tolerant in their rise to global dominance. -- Amy Chua
Pornography incarnates male supremacy. It is the DNA of male dominance. Every rule of sexual abuse, every nuance of sexual sadism, every highway and byway of sexual exploitation, is encoded in it. -- Andrea Dworkin
Turkey and Brazil, though half a world apart geographically, have much in common. Both are large countries that spent long years under military dominance, but have broken with that history and made decisive steps towards full democracy. -- Stephen Kinzer
I've had lengthy discussions with European farm leaders. It is clear they have an agricultural strategy to support their producers and gain dominance in world agricultural trade. They're gaining markets the old-fashioned way - they're buying them. -- Kent Conrad
In Arab capitals, the failure of the United States to stop Iran's nuclear program is understood as American weakness in the struggle for dominance in the Middle East, making additional cooperation from Arab leaders on Israeli-Palestinian issues even less likely. -- Elliott Abrams
The United States has made a massive effort since the end of the Second World War to secure the dominance of its films in foreign markets - an achievement generally pushed home politically, by writing clauses into various treaties and aid packages. -- Fredric Jameson
One of the weapons Marvel used in its climb to comic-book dominance was a willingness to invent new characters at a dizzying speed. There are so many Marvel universes, indeed, that some superheroes do not even exist in one another's worlds, preventing gridlock. -- Roger Ebert
Commerce, trade and exchange make other people more valuable alive than dead, and mean that people try to anticipate what the other guy needs and wants. It engages the mechanisms of reciprocal altruism, as the evolutionary biologists call it, as opposed to raw dominance. -- Steven Pinker
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, the United States would enter, in a formal way, what had been up to that date strictly a European conflict. Marcus Garvey's prophecy about the European scramble to maintain dominance over the whole world was now a reality. -- John Henrik Clarke
The conclusion that many uniformed military came away from Vietnam with was that political interference, dominance of strategy and even tactics were a very bad way to conduct a war, and that indeed, if that was going to be our practice, that we shouldn't wage conflict again. -- Robert McFarlane
Geopolitical drama lessened but did not die after the Cold War; in 2008, the specter of thousands of seeming automatons banging drums at the opening of the Beijing Games frightened and enthralled the world, reminding us that China was a nation on the rise, a competitor for global dominance. -- Ben Shapiro
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. -- Steven Pinker
Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World War II, dominance had shifted decisively into the hands of the upstart across the sea, the United States, by far the most powerful and wealthy society in world history. -- Noam Chomsky
During my time, squash was not even part of Asian or Commonwealth Games. Considering the dominance of Jansher Khan and I in the '80s and '90s, it goes without saying that Pakistan would have bagged a plethora of medals through us at these games. And yes, the ultimate prize would have been an Olympic gold. -- Jahangir Khan
Assertion is a virtue, dominance is a vice. -- Anwesha Roychowdhury
Oh, I'm sorry. Did I interrupt some sort of dominance foreplay? -- Kim Harrison
The dominance of conclusions over arguments is most pronounced where emotions are involved. -- Daniel Kahneman
Refusing dominance over others by using money is a clear sign of wisdom. -- Eraldo Banovac
The single biggest threat to man's continued dominance on the planet is the virus. -- Joshua Lederberg
It's not about having an absence of fear, it's about having dominance over it. -- Steve Maraboli
I think in most couples or partnerships, there's a constant struggle for power and dominance. -- Alice Lowe
Living in this world, under the dominance of the ego mind, is difficult. That's the struggle. -- Marianne Williamson
This is the warfare of the future. America's dominance in this arena [cybersecurity] must be unquestioned. -- Donald Trump
I believe Saddam Hussein's strategic objective was, and remains, to assert dominance over the Gulf region. -- Sandy Berger
As a husband, I'm a true partner. I don't believe one person should have dominance over another. -- Ice Cube
Without exception, the dominance and coherence of culture proved to be an essential quality of the excellent companies. -- Tom Peters
Pornography is the essential sexuality of male power: of hate, of ownership, of hierarchy; of sadism, of dominance. -- Andrea Dworkin
Education about gender and peace is important. Educational strategies to promote peace must consider all relations of dominance. -- Widad Akrawi
Your brand's power lies in dominance. It is better to have 50% of one market, instead of 10% of five markets. -- Al Ries
For many women today, on a personal level, the problem is not male dominance so much as male desertion. -- Nancy Pearcey
Hence not only the crisis of geopolitics and geostrategy but also the shift towards the emergence and dominance of chronostrategy. -- Paul Virilio
The same men who are blind and deaf to feminism are acutely sensitive to what threatens their dominance and privilege. -- Marilyn French
The Dutch and the English, former competitors for world dominance, taught me the wisdom of waiting as well as withholding. -- Lynne Tillman
I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group -- Peggy McIntosh
Liberal dominance of important areas of America's social and political life has undermined many of the virtues that have sustained this country. -- Mona Charen
Naval dominance of European waters was the largest, longest, most complex and expensive project ever undertaken by the British state and society. -- Nicholas Rodger
If you have a pack establishing dominance in an area that involves such physical exertion, you're sucking the life out of the opposition. -- Ben Morgan
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
We can save ourselves, but only if we let go of the myth of dominance and mastery and learn to work with nature. -- Naomi Klein
The Republican Party`s reacting now to the news of [Donald] Trump`s dominance in different ways. For some, they are pushing resistance. -- Chris Matthews
A truly submissive woman is to be treasured, cherished and protected for it is only she who can give a man the gift of dominance. -- Anne Desclos
Male dominance in society always means that out of public sight, in the private, ahistorical world of men with women, men are sexually dominating women. -- Andrea Dworkin
Turkey is saying that it wants to preserve Sunni dominance in Mosul. Obviously, there, the Kurds, the Shia, the Iraqi government have their own agendas. -- Patrick Cockburn
Overturning patriarchy does not mean replacing men's dominance with women's dominance. That would merely maintain the patriarchal pattern of dominance. We need to transform the pattern itself. -- Petra Kelly
The best intentions (of respect and tolerance) can often be annoying to those whose cultures are not in dominance: we feel that we are often zoological specimens. -- Vijay Prashad
German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature. -- Pankaj Mishra
The dominance of short-term perspectives has led to routine decisions in the markets that sacrifice the long-term buildup of genuine value in pursuit of artificial, short-term gains. -- Al Gore
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. -- Robert Kagan
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.) -- Carl Sagan
Aviation seems almost a gift from heaven to those Western nations who were already the leaders of their era, strengthening their leadership, their confidence, their dominance over other peoples. -- Charles Lindbergh
Elizabeth A. Johnson explains that including divine female symbols and images not only challenges the dominance of male images but also calls into question the structure of patriarchy itself. -- Sue Monk Kidd
Women and men are divided by gender, made into the sexes as we know them, by the social requirements of heterosexuality, which institutionalizes male sexual dominance and female sexual submission. -- Catharine MacKinnon
People who feel insecure in social situations never miss a chance to exhibit their dominance over close, submissive friends, whomthey put down publicly, in front of everyone--by teasing, for example. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Fighting in the ring or cage is very much different from fighting in the street. Fighting in the street is very much fueled by anger, pride, and male dominance and ego. -- Joel Edgerton
We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain, only to see them re-imposed at a European level with a European super-state exercising a new dominance from Brussels. -- Margaret Thatcher
Most talk by whites about equal opportunity seems to me now to be about equal opportunity to try to get into a position of dominance while denying that systems of dominance exist. -- Peggy McIntosh
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. -- Michael Klare
It's a pity we're still officially living in an age called the Holocene. The Anthropocene - human dominance of biological, chemical and geological processes on Earth - is already an undeniable reality. -- Paul J. Crutzen
I believe that the fundamental alternative for man is the choice between "life" and "death"; between creativity and destructive violence; between reality and illusions; between objectivity and intolerance; between brotherhood-independence and dominance-submission. -- Erich Fromm
A two-parent family based on love and commitment can be a wonderful thing, but historically speaking the "two-parent paradigm" has left an extraordinary amount of room for economic inequality, violence and male dominance. -- Stephanie Coontz
one question for me and others like me is whether ... we will get truly distressed, even outraged, about unearned race advantage and conferred dominance and, if so, what we will do to lessen them. -- Peggy McIntosh
Masculinity cannot exist without femininity. On its own, masculinity has no meaning, because it is but one half of a set of power relations. Masculinity pertains to male dominance as femininity pertains to female subordination. -- Sheila Jeffreys
American conservatism depends on its continued dominance and even for its very existence on people never making connections about the world, connections that until recent were treated as obvious or self-evident everywhere on the planet. -- Thomas Frank

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