100 Dominant Male Quotes

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At a certain point, even if the one alpha male is dominant, at a certain point there's a younger lion that is stronger, and everyone knows it. — Josh Lucas

Ns are poster children for psychosocial stress, living in troops with bruising and shifting dominance hierarchies among males and high rates of male aggression. — Robert M. Sapolsky

In the dog-eat-dog economy, the Doberman is boss. — Edward Abbey

If a male primate is mean to a female primate, her whole family will come after him. We don't have that sort of accountability in industrial societies. — Robert M. Sapolsky

Amongst the minds of animals that of man leads, not as a demigod from another planet, but as a king from the same race. — Edward Thorndike

Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men--the other 999 follow women. - Groucho Marx

Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men--the other 999 follow women. — Groucho Marx

Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head. - Chinese Proverbs

Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head. — Chinese Proverbs

Hair on a man's chest is thought to denote strength. The gorilla is the most powerful of bipeds and has hair on every place on his body except for his chest. — Anton Szandor LaVey

The extraordinary gentleness of the adult male with his young dispels all the King Kong mythology. — Dian Fossey

The male ego with few exceptions is elephantine to start with. — Bette Davis

Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating liberty between control by their mothers and control by their wives. — Camille Anna Paglia

In the Baboon community, it is not how strong you are that is important, but who you know that counts — David Attenborough

A gentleman is simply a patient wolf. - Lana Turner

A gentleman is simply a patient wolf. — Lana Turner

Women are attracted to strength and power. — Andrew Tate

Male domination is so rooted in our collective unconscious that we no longer even see it. — Pierre Bourdieu

Short Dominant Male Quotes

  • Every man has a wild beast within him. — Frederick the Great
  • Men dominate because of physicality, and thus they have mercy where women do not. — Jack Nicholson
  • Great men have great dogs. — Otto von Bismarck
  • To the dog who has money, men say: my lord dog. — Moroccan Proverbs
  • We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly. — Margaret Atwood
  • A pack of jackasses led by a lion is superior to a pack of lions led by a jackass. — George Washington
  • The wolf has a thick neck because he does his job on his own. — Bulgarian Proverbs
  • The normal behavior of the tribe often overpowers the desired behavior of the individual. — James Clear
  • A lioness has got a lot more power than the lion likes to think she has. — Jacki Weaver
  • I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species. — Voltaire

Dominant Male Image Quotes

Dominant male quote It's not about having an absence of fear, it's about having dominance over it.
It's not about having an absence of fear, it's about having dominance over it.

Dominating Man Quotes

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

It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them. — Oscar Wilde

There’s no such thing as sexism against men. That's because sexism is prejudice + power. Men are the dominant gender with power in society. — Anita Sarkeesian

Dominant male quote In the future, we will have to count on being at least somewhat able to dominate nature in ways that
In the future, we will have to count on being at least somewhat able to dominate nature in ways that go beyond mere technology.

In a sense, a cyborg has no origin story in the Western sense – a ‘final’ irony since the cyborg is also the awful apocalyptic telos of the ‘West’s’ escalating dominations of abstract individuation, an ultimate self untied at last from all dependency, a man in space. — Donna J. Haraway

It is the law of nature that woman should be held under the dominance of man. - Confucius

It is the law of nature that woman should be held under the dominance of man. — Confucius

A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his own works dominate the landscape, is hereby recognized as an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain. — Howard Zahniser

Dominant male quote Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Sadly, we are not designing AI to think like a human. We are designing it to think like a man. The male-dominated pool of developers who are building the future of AI today are likely to create machines that favor so-called masculine traits. — Mo Gawdat

Men are so simple of mind, and so much dominated by their immediate needs, that a deceitful man will always find plenty who are ready to be deceived. — Niccolo Machiavelli

It is not accidental that all phenomena of human life are dominated by the search for daily bread - the oldest link connecting all living things, man included, with the surrounding nature. — Ivan Pavlov

He took our flesh and our flesh became God, since it is united with God and forms a single entity with him. For the higher perfection dominated, resulting in my becoming God as fully as he became man. — Gregory of Nazianzus

Male Dominance Quotes

Mary Kom is a woman who stood up alone in a male-dominated field and fought for her rights and what she believed in. Her story is an inspiration for every young person out there. — Priyanka Chopra

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

All my battles were with male egos. I’m just looking for equality, not to dominate. But I want to be able to control my vision. — Joni Mitchell

Politics is a very male-dominated, male-driven profession. I was not just a woman but a young woman, and I suppose you end up trying to behave in a way that you think is expected of you. — Nicola Sturgeon

Rap comes from the humble beginnings of rebelling against the status quo. Now, rappers have become the status quo themselves. You can't rebel against the Queen and then become the Queen yourself. I attribute much of the blame to testosterone-male dominance and patriarchy. — Chuck D

I just think that unless you have that cohesiveness in the family unit, the male character tends to become very dominant, repressive and insensitive. So much of this comes also from a lack of education. — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

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

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

Pornography is the essential sexuality of male power: of hate, of ownership, of hierarchy; of sadism, of dominance. — Andrea Dworkin

And rock being a male-dominated, testosterone-driven place that I've been in the eye of the hurricane now for several years, I realized that it can be a place that can perpetuate homophobic behavior unless it's addressed by bands like us. — Tim McIlrath

Alpha Male Quotes

You may abandon your own body but you must preserve your honour. — Miyamoto Musashi

I used to have a wild night with three women until 5am., but I am getting older. In the Olympic village here, I will live it up with five women, but only until 3am. — Alberto Tomba

The alpha male is always willing to walk away. — Roosh V

It's a real man who can go out with a woman who's taller than he is. That's an alpha male right there. — Miranda Hart

I describe in 'Chimpanzee Politics' how the alpha male needs broad support to reach the top spot. He needs some close allies and he needs many group members to be on his side. — Frans de Waal

I never expected I would be connected to the Alpha male as some kind of ancillary object, and to this day it mystifies me. — Courtney Love

My mom raised a self-aware kid. I wasn't like the typical alpha male. I wasn't afraid to sing, you know? I wasn't afraid to be in musicals. — Khalid

If you attack Trump, he's not gonna sit there and take it. He's an alpha male. He's gonna come right back at you and he's gonna keep coming back at you. — Rush Limbaugh

I had a direct experience of the efficacy of this form of mind-body medicine. This comes from somebody who had been sort of an alpha male, highly cynical war correspondent, who had basically seen it all and heard it all, was cynical and trusted nothing. — Brad Willis

My wife is a big fan of George Oppen and I got into him. I could have a career like his. It's not an alpha male situation, George Oppen. It's quiet. It's poetry.He just lived a life of an intellectual poet. — Stephen Malkmus

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More Dominant Male Quotes

As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits... the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied. — Ian Fleming

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 to tell Pooky that they belong to the same tribe, while among the good old boys it serves the cause of masculine dominance by identifying Bear and Wrecker as Alpha males. — Florence King

'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

And if the professional rapist is to be separated from the average dominant heterosexual (male), it may be mainly a quantitative difference. — Susan Griffin

Sexism is the foundation on which all tyranny is built. Every social form of hierarchy and abuse is modeled on male-over-female domination. — Andrea Dworkin

The thing I can say about Japan is they were progressive for a country that is very male dominant. — Brandi Chastain

I came to the realization that a strong female is frightening to everybody, because all societies are male-dominated, black societies, poor people, rich people, any racial group, they're all dominated by men. A strong female is going to threaten everybody across the board... — Madonna Ciccone

The gaming industry has been male-dominated ever since its inception. — Anita Sarkeesian

Grameen Bank was formed as an institution owned by its borrower members, who are poor women. Through its unique decision-making process, Grameen Bank has given millions of women the means to emerge from the shadows in a male-dominated society and to make something of themselves. — Muhammad Yunus

The current male-dominated model of success - which equates success with burnout, sleep deprivation, and driving yourself into the ground - isn't working for women, and it's not working for men, either. — Arianna Huffington

Imagine living in a world where there is no domination, where females and males are not alike or even always equal, but where a vision of mutuality is the ethos shaping our interaction. — Bell Hooks

For many women today, on a personal level, the problem is not male dominance so much as male desertion. — Nancy Pearcey

there are only two basic ways of structuring the relations between the female and male halves of humanity. All societies are patterned on either a dominator model - in which human hierarchies are ultimately backed up by force or the threat of force - or a partnership model, with variations in between. — Riane Eisler

Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. — Naomi Wolf

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

It is one thing to say, "Some men shall rule," quite another to declare, "All men shall rule," and that in virtue of the most primitive, the most rudimentary attribute they possess, that namely of sex. — Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

Contemporary feminism cut itself off from history and bankrupted itself when it spun its puerile, paranoid fantasy of male oppressors and female sex-object victims. Woman is the dominant sex. — Camille Paglia

I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike - and I don't think there really is a distinction between the two - are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats. — Harold Bloom

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. — Marianne Williamson

I claim that every woman in this century and in our culture sphere who has ventured into male-dominated institutions - 'literature' and 'aesthetics' are such institutions - must have experienced the desire for self-destruction. — Christa Wolf

Too often the desire for peace has been expressed by women while the stewardship of the mechanisms which are used to attempt to secure peace in the short and medium term are dominated by male decision-making structures and informal arrangements. This must change. — Jenny Shipley

And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so. — Ed Miliband

It is not coincidental that for so-called religious fundamentalists - whether they are Western or Eastern, Muslim or Christian - rigid male dominance and "holy wars" are priorities. Or that competing sects of the same religion, such as Sunni and Shia, are at each other's throats. In these cultures, women are rigidly controlled by men. — Riane Eisler

The American work environment has to change, not the women. We should be recognizing that what women are not fitting into is a very narrow, male-dominated workplace of the 1950s. — Anne-Marie Slaughter

Bonobos really violate a rule of nature where usually if you're bigger, you're going to be dominant. But here, females are actually smaller. But they're still not dominated by males because they work together. — Claudine Andre

If you're in a domestic situation where the man is violent, patriarchy and male domination - even though you understand it intersectionally - you focus, you highlight that dimension of it, if that's what is needed to change the situation. — Bell Hooks

The point of the feminist movement wasnt simply to set our underwear on fire and muscle into small spaces in the male-dominated workplace, but to create a world where the contribution of both sexes was equally valued and no ones worth was judged on their take-home salary. — Mariella Frostrup

There is one unmistakable lesson in American history: A community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in broken families, dominated by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to male authority, never acquiring any set of rational expectations about the future — Daniel Patrick Moynihan

I would describe fundamentalism as, first of all, a movement led almost invariably by authoritarian males who consider themselves to be superior to others and who have an overwhelming commitment to subjugate women and to dominate their fellow believers. — Jimmy Carter

I came at a time where male artists where dominating, so I had to do something quick to get people's attention. I wanted to let people know that women artists can hold their own compare to the men. Sex got their attention, while I open the road for the other female artists. — Lady Saw

As a woman who works in a male-dominated business - Hollywood, definitely, being one of them - I instinctually knew what that is like. You have to be strong and take care of yourself. — Olivia Wilde

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