Quotes About Control

In any relationship, the person who cares the least is the one with the most power.

Hard position when you don't want to be a dictator but you want your own way," Eleanor wrote Hick.

Fotografiar es apropiarse de lo fotografiado. Significa establecer con el mundo una relación determinada que parece conocimiento, y por lo tanto poder.

Cameras define reality in the two ways essential to the workings of an advanced industrial society: as a spectacle (for masses) and an object of surveillance (for rulers).

A completely open, unpredictable future makes me horribly anxious… It's as if I'm supposed to walk through a forest without being allowed to inform myself whether or not it's full of wolves.

re: cutting glass...You have to be in command of the glass, telling it where to release its hold on itself. Just like life. Otherwise it will splinter.

All arguments, at their core, were about power. Who had it. Who wanted it. Who would surrender. Who would prevail.

The main boy—the one who was calling the shots—pushed

force me to have a baby against my will. That's . . . It's barbaric. It's like . . . Handmaid shit.

He didn't believe in women's rights, but in controlling women.

I can see the Lady has a genius for ruling, whilst I have a genius for not being ruled. Jane Welsh Carlyle, (1845)

He had practically made a career out of reading parenting books, even though they all seemed to give conflicting advice. One thing they agreed on was that rebellion stemmed from a need to escape parental control, running up against a need for boundaries and limits. Not that it made dealing with a thirteen-year-old any easier.

I had to concede that there was some logic to McQuaid's concern. But it wasn't logic we were talking about, it was control. The emancipated China rose up in me, the China who hates to be told what to do by somebody who thinks he knows better. She was indignant, and she spoke for me.

I mean that two of any thing is a most uncomfortable number. One may do as he pleases. Six may get along well enough. But two must always struggle for mastery. Two must always watch each other. The eyes of all the world will be on two, uncertain which of them to follow.

By a very conservative estimate, a hundred million people have died at the hands of their own governments in this century. Given that record, how bad could anarchy be?

The measure of the state's success is that the word anarchy frightens people, while the word state does not.

Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.

If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

You are engineers of human souls.

It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.

The people who cast the votes do not decide an election, the people who count the votes do.

Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.

The Pope! How many divisions has he got?