Quotes About Control

I wondered about her chicken-and-egg relationship with Dad. Which came first? Her helplessness or his controlling?

No power was total, no power permanent, no power absolute.

Rosa is pushing all the buttons.

That was what magic was: greed. Magic wielders didn't wield magic; it wielded them

Manipular las mentiras es una cosa; dejar que ellas te manipulen a ti, otra muy distinta.

I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of reason.

Expectation is the worst emotional disturbance. What will happen will happen, what won't happen, won't.

Any powerful technology can be abused.

It'd have been so nice if my life had been a well-controlled experiment. You know; start off with your basic ingredients, add education, experiences, events, stirring with a glass rod, when appropriate retarding the reaction with a block of ice. Predictable consequences, intended results, and something worth having at the end. Hasn't quite worked out like that. As for the result, the product, we'll have to wait and see. I may yet surprise myself.

The world is full of idiots, and always has been. But sometimes I wonder why such a disproportionate quantity of them end up running other people's lives.)

And belief, like love and sleep, is something you can't do anything about. You can't make it come if you want it, and you can't make it go if you don't.

If a man exists who is immune to force, even if he's the most blameless anchorite living on top of a column in the middle of the desert, he is beyond government, beyond authority, and cannot be controlled; and that would be intolerable.

Moral: don't play with savage things that are stronger than you are.

There was once a king in a far-off land who said, when you have them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.

We hold that you can't own anything that four strong men can't lift.

For what it was worth, she got the impression that Niessa liked her, or at least approved of her, in the same way a chess-player approves of one of his pieces when it stays where it's been put and doesn't go wandering off all over the board.

And another thing. There's no black market in this town. Really. You just can't get anything. And you know why?" "Listen—" "Because you've got the bloody Themes, who should be running the stupid black market, going round telling anyone that if they sell so much as a cashew nut off ticket, they'll get their legs broken. That's just not right. It's tyranny.

To expect to continue controlling the use of money and the ministry overseas from our foreign-based mission board is an extension of colonialism. It adds an unbiblical element, which only humiliates and weakens the national missionaries in the long run. Christians need to learn that they are not giving their money to national workers, but God's money to His work overseas.

Having preached the necessity of international control and openness in 1946, Oppenheimer by 1947 was beginning to accept the idea of a defense posture supported by a multitude of nuclear weapons.

They paid more to tap my phone than they paid me to run the Los Alamos Project

Oppenheimer's warnings were ignored—and ultimately, he was silenced. Like that rebellious Greek god Prometheus—who stole fire from Zeus and bestowed it upon humankind, Oppenheimer gave us atomic fire. But then, when he tried to control it, when he sought to make us aware of its terrible dangers, the powers-that-be, like Zeus, rose up in anger to punish him.

the tyrant must "stifle everything that might give rise to two things, self-assurance and trust.

The Chinese state is the majority shareholder in the Hangzhou firm Hikvision, which began life in a state research institute and is now the largest manufacturer of video surveillance systems in the world. Today, Hikvision cameras have been installed in more than 150 countries, where they identify faces and license plates, and send an automatic alert when a driver is seen texting at the wheel.

It was the way he communicated it, while still being the man's man that he was, the alpha, who liked being in charge