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Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Women, Great, Men

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.
Robert Frost

Power, Control, Violence

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
Voltaire

Religion, Wise, Mother

But once the ants and termites jumped the high barrier that prevents the vast variety of evolving animal groups from becoming fully social, they dominated the world.
E. O. Wilson

Once, Social, High

Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.
Theodor Adorno

Violence, Physical, Domination

India Conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.
Hu Shih

Single, Soldier, Her

Studies have shown that since women have had access to the pill and family planning measures, they have made huge gains in both wages and in careers that were dominated by men.
Jennifer Granholm

Family, Women, Men

I'm not overly alarmist about it, but I do think there are some worrying signs, like the growing accumulation of wealth by a very small proportion of the population, plus elections in the US are much more dominated by money than anywhere else calling itself a democracy.
Peter Singer

Money, Democracy, Small

I think as a young actress, it's very rare that you read something where you're not either 'the girl' or there to serve some romantic purpose in a male dominated cast.
Sienna Miller

Romantic, Girl, Young

Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated substantially more - even in professions, like nursing, dominated by women. No wonder there's a gender gap.
Dee Dee Myers

Education, Age, Women

With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.
Arthur Erickson

Alone, Goal, America

My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father.
Hugh Leonard

Family, Mother, Father

Well I do think there are people who are habitually negative and depressed and take the opposite approach because they imagine the worst, and their minds become dominated by that. They let their own emotions and expectations transform their perceptions of the world.
Barbara Ehrenreich

Negative, Become, Minds

I want to be able to work on a project that will give people around the world the chance to represent their own people, their own culture, their own stories, rather than just Hollywood - really, you know, dominated Hollywood. And that's a dream of mine.
Steven Seagal

Work, Give, Around

When I grew up in the '60s, we were actually dominated by this, you know, sort of conforming '50s culture, even though we were like trying to express our own culture, like, the dominant culture was the thing that was forming us. And I think that that's true today.
Gus Van Sant

Today, True, Trying

English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value of other poetic drama by the standards which Shakespeare has already implanted in his mind.
Lytton Strachey

Mind, Almost, Value

All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.
Friedrich Engels

History, Between, Social

There's four biggies. There was Elizabeth I, George III, Victoria, and the current queen, who really dominated four eras.
Geoffrey Rush

Four, Current, Queen

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

Life, Nature, Daily

In the 1920s, Wall Street was a world that was really dominated by professional speculators and stock pools. These people had a monopoly over information.
Ron Chernow

Street, Wall, Monopoly

But if we had to trade with a Europe dominated by the present German trade policies, we might have to change our methods to some totalitarian form. This is a prospect that any lover of democracy must view with consternation.
Wendell Willkie

Change, Democracy, Might

If the British Fleet were lost or captured, the Atlantic might be dominated by Germany, a power hostile to our way of life, controlling in that event most of the ships and shipbuilding facilities of Europe.
Wendell Willkie

Life, Power, Lost

Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist translates his inner world.
Hans Hofmann

Nature, Spiritual, Different

Washington is dominated by big money.
Bernie Sanders

Money, Big, Washington

A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding.
Lara St. John

Good, Men, Today

Suddenly, the screens were dominated by American entertainment to the extent of something like 95 percent. As a result, audiences turned away from the kinds of films that we used to make.
Andrzej Wajda

Away, American, Used

We as women have a voice and we are decision makers in what film to see. We always support our boyfriends and husbands by going to see the male dominated films, but we don't compel them to see films with female casts.
Octavia Spencer

Women, Decision, Film

I don't know how it could be more stark or clear: this entire society is being dominated by corporate power in a way that may exceed what happened in the late nineteenth century, early twentieth century.
Russ Feingold

Power, Society, May

We should change the current economic system dominated by big business groups to a one where small and medium-sized enterprises develop together.
Park Geun-hye

Change, Business, Together

My desire for the part of Mammy was not dominated by selfishness for Hollywood has been good to me and I am grateful.
Hattie McDaniel

Good, Grateful, Desire

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