Discussion: Superiority and control

Most people, at one point or another, feel an overwhelming need to feel superior to someone.  Most times, this superiority comes from having control over aspects of another person's or thing's existence.  Some people will begin to feel depressed when they begin to lose control over aspects of their own or someone else's life.  This depression can also cause a hunger to assert control and/or superiority over another person.  Could this be the cause of all anger and hurt in the world?  The need to feel superior and have control?
~another musing of the ill-informed~