Quotes About Control

Its weak people who are dangerous, who lash out uncontrollably and hurt you back. Strong people can walk away- no repercussions, you see, if you attack a strong person.

We manufacture anger to give ourselves the illusion of power when we feel weak and helpless.

I waved at him to stop, like a railway signalman in the face of an out-of-control train hurtling towards him.

Allow a person to affect your emotions and your judgment suffered, always.

como si el hecho de tener un ejército de acólitos sin criterio fuese capaz de probar algo. Sólo hay que fijarse en la situación política para ver que las cosas no pueden funcionar de ese modo.

Mademoiselle, if you had not intended it, it would not have happened," said Poirot. "Hands do not move unless minds make them move....

They are not wise, then, who stand forth to buffet against Love; for Love rules the gods as he will, and me.

Show me the man who keeps his house in hand, He's fit for public authority.

We live behind the closed doors of our own destiny.

Force is that which rules the actions without regulating the will

The belly rules the mind.

Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off.

one of the secret masters of the world: a librarian. They control information. Don't ever p**s one off.

Mensch tracht, Gott lacht. (Man plans, God laughs.) —Yiddish proverb

the key to settling into a peaceful place is all about taming reaction.

Busty' Roberts had joined the Royal Artillery in 1914 and since then had steadily risen to the rank of Gunner. Now the crunch: someone with a perverted sense of humour made him a Lance Bombardier. Roberts went insane with power. The war now consisted of two people, him and Hitler.

Roberts had joined the Royal Artillery in 1914 and since then had steadily risen to the rank of Gunner. Now the crunch: someone with a perverted sense of humour made him a Lance Bombardier. Roberts went insane with power. The war now consisted of two people, him and Hitler.

God Made Night but Man Made Darkness

Los peores tiranos son aquellos que saben hacerse amar.

I am not asking for government censorship or any other kind of censorship. I am asking whether a kind of censorship already exists when the news that forty million Americans receive each night is determined by a handful of men responsible only to their corporate employers and filtered through a handful of commentators who admit to their own set of biases.

The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.

Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans fools and women will take a little longer.

Nothing in the many processes of Nature, whether she deals with men or with things, comes by chance or accident or is really at the mercy of external causes.