Dominance Behavior Quotes

Male chimpanzees have an extraordinarily strong drive for dominance. They're constantly jockeying for position.

Apes beat their chests so they don't have to fight 24 hours a day.

If you ever saw a cat and a dog eating out of the same plate, you can bet your ass it was the cat's food.

It comes down to that ... business tactic: the guy that yells loudest is right.

Men love to be the first to read the newspaper in the morning. Not being the first is upsetting to their psyches.

I bossed my middle sister around all the time.

There is a cowardly propensity in the human heart that delights in oppressing somebody else, and in the gratification of this base desire we always select a victim that can be outraged with safety.

I've had meetings where a guy actually told me, "What we're trying to figure out is how we can control you." In the meeting, to me! Why do you want to control me?

I think that the desire to be cruel and to hurt (with words because any other way might be dangerous to ourself) is part of human nature. Parties are battles (most parties), a conversation is a duel (often). Everybody's trying to hurt first, to get in the dig that will make him or her feel superior, feel triumph.

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

The less power a man has, the more he likes to use it.

He dinna act like an Alpha." "He does in some areas.

It's human nature to abuse power, no matter who you are.

My instinct is to be very controlling.

Now, I've always known that there were bullies in the world. We've seen a lot of it in politics lately as well as in daily life. You see it where people who may be stronger, or bigger, or better with verbiage than other folks... show off. To me, that's what bullying is, showing off. It's saying, I'm better than you, I can take you down. Not just physically, but emotionally.

This alpha dog is not going to take it lying down next time.

As a rough rule of thumb, I would say the smaller the pond, the more belligerent the fish.

Any man that tells me what to do is sexy!

People are least aware of others when demonstrating their own power over them.