Quotes About Control

He felt an immediate spike of panic—which he shot in the head and dumped in a lake.

Epics have this habit of treating physics like something that happens to other people, like acne and debt.

He moved like some ancient god of lore, presiding over a battlefield of miniature mortals who couldn't see him, but certainly felt his almighty hand. Except, if Dennison was a god, his specialty certainly wasn't war.

These people seek to control the knowledge so that they can profit from it. Profit from the apocalypse itself.

You can't control everything. But if you can control how people regard you, then you can find a place in this mess.

Power is a knife," Wit said, taking his seat. "A terrible, dangerous knife that can't be wielded without cutting yourself. We joked about stupidity, but in reality most people aren't stupid. Many are simply frustrated at how little control they have over their lives. They lash out. Sometimes in spectacular ways…

He flopped down onto the deck beside her chair, rolling over and looking up. "Yeah, maybe. But it's nice to make people laugh at you for something you do, and not something you can't control. You know?

He'd been convinced that if he could just explain his condition to the city, they would all listen to reason and let him control their lives perfectly.

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Remember, obedience is defiance.

He was a man.Just a man. Yet, you always knew he'd succeed. He made you be what he wanted you to be.

The Librarians control the information... They control what gets read, what gets seen, and what gets learned. Because of that they have power.

You don't get to choose to be free, Venli. Just which master to follow.

The first step in taking control of a nation, Arteth, is the simplest. You find someone to hate.

en realidad la mayoría de la gente no es estúpida. Lo que les pasa a muchos es que están frustrados por el poco control que ostentan sobre sus vidas. Se desahogan. A veces de formas muy espectaculares...

Anytime you can make someone else feel something, you've got power over them.

You underestimate the stubbornness a crown can press into a man or woman's mind.

There was nothing quite so frustrating as soft words being wielded like clubs.

Need. That word had strange effects on men. Some ran when you used it. Others grew nervous.

That's the way of most rulership," Ham mused. "What is a government but an institutionalized method of making sure somebody else does all the work?

This isn't your prison. This is mine.

Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.

All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.

One cannot write poems about trees when the forest is full of police.