Domestic Power Quotes

All mankind rules its women, and we rule all mankind, but our women rule us.

If only I had the influence with my wife and children that I have in some other quarters!

A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind of independence that usually terminates in aristocracy.

Domestic power structures are shaped in good part by global arrangements.

You can't be a conqueror in your own home.

Here's the thing, who cares what you have to look at, I'm a big advocate of not obscuring vistas, but even if you build the biggest wind farm, can it run anything more than a domestic washer and dryer and a computer, for the year? I'm sorry guys, the answer, you're going to be shocked to know: it ain't much more than that.

Equality of two domestic powers Breeds scrupulous faction.

I have no wish for a second husband. I had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie down mistress, and get up master.

'I will not stand for being called a woman in my own house' she said.

States are violent to the extent that they have the power to act in the interests of those with domestic power

The man may be the head of the household. But the woman is the neck, and she can turn the head whichever way she pleases.

States are violent institutions. The government of any country, including ours, represents some sort of domestic power structure, and it's usually violent. States are violent to the extent that they're powerful, that's roughly accurate.

The achieved West had given the United States something that no people had ever had before, an internal, domestic empire.

Felicity grimaced in agreement. “No, you are perfectly correct. I did not realize how vital the approbation of one’s butler is in allowing for nocturnal autonomy.

Will you not covet such power as this, and seek such throne as this, and be no more housewives, but queens? There is no putting by that crown; queens you must always be; queens to your lovers; queens to your husbands and sons; queens of higher mystery to the world beyond. . . . But alas! you are too often idle and careless queens, grasping at majesty in the least things, while you abdicate it in the greatest.

I should favour anything that would increase the present enormous authority of women and their creative action in their own homes. The average woman...is a despot; the average man is a serf.

My mother really held the family together. She was a perfect example of the kind of black woman I would love to see again. She ruled my father with an iron hand, yet she barely ever raised her voice above a whisper.

Some husbands regard it as their prerogative to compel their wives to fit their standards of what they think to be the ideal.

I like to joke with my wife that she's the CEO of... certainly of our household.

The domestic power structure - how power is exercised in the United States, for instance - greatly influences the structure of international institutions. So, for example, the Clinton administration was very influential in shaping the WTO treaty, and, because of the way the US domestic political system works, this meant that corporations could use the US government to wield a huge influence.

You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.

Each suburban housewife spends her time presiding over a power plant sufficient to have staffed the palace of a Roman emperor with a hundred slaves.

I am the Wizard of Oz of housewives (in that I am both "Great and Terrible" and because I sometimes hide behind the curtains

It is a maxim that man and wife should never have it in their power to hang one another.

No man is boss in his own home, but he can make up for it, he thinks, by making a dog play dead.