One of the primary sources of power is status. So strife develops in attempting to seek status, and the attitude of elevated status is pride. In religion, pride is said to be the source of all sin. The analysis is the same, because pride is the attitude that goes with the desire to dominate. So there are a lot of angles to the subject, but the focus here is domination.
Domination is about the same thing as control.
Dominators are driven to control. They cannot ignore something which is none of their business, because they are obsessed with controlling it. The drive for a world government and totalitarianism are the largest examples. There are positions which require a degree of control over something, and domination is the result. It takes the form of purifying.