Quotes About Control

It was a refined sort of bottled fury that had the potential to be devastatingly violent, and yet at the same time he was also a man able to control it.

My brother always says that real power is not brokered in public.

You are not destined for anything. You make your own destiny.

You either had to fight evil as you encountered it, or evil would come to control your life.

Because, Richard, many people must be ruled to thrive. In their selfishness and greed, they see free people as their oppressors. They wish to have a leader who will cut the taller plants so the sun will reach them. They think no plant should be allowed to grow taller than the shortest, and in that way give light to all. They would rather be provided a guiding light, regardless of the fuel, than light a candle themselves.

They don't, exactly. The threat of their intervention makes it unnecessary. Wizards call it the paradox of power: if you have power, and are ready, able, and willing to use it, you don't need to exercise your power.

Anger made a better warrior than fear.

Because, Richard, many people must be ruled to thrive. In their selfishness and greed, they see free people as their oppressors. They wish to have a leader who will cut the taller plants so the sun will reach them. They think no plant should be allowed to grow taller than the shortest, and in that way give light to all. They would rather

Sometimes letting out the anger is an even more grievous mistake than holding it in.

Surprise was their greatest weapon. He didn't want to give it up without a very good reason.

People whose magic could affect others in an overt manner didn't need to bite, he imagined, nor would they allow themselves to be held captive

there was no saving the world. the world was going to do what the world was doing [sic] to do.

Dictators always seek to take weapons away from people so that there can be no effective opposition to their rule.

The woman had a voice that could unwind a good rope.

Like it or not, the aggressor makes the rules. You must play by them, or you will surely die by them.

Like it or not, the aggressor makes the rules.

that girl has a temper. a very bad temper. and you don't? richard asked. not like hers.

Them's the vermin: them who take what little we can earn or make with our hands so as to promise it right back to us, expecting us to be thankful at their kind hearts; them who tempt good people to be lazy so they can rule us like they do sheep at a trough; them who took our freedom and our ways. Even a foolish old woman like me knows that lazy people don't think for themselves; they only think about themselves. I don't know what the world's coming to.

Wizard's Third Rule: Passion rules reason.

The weapon which most readily conquers reason is terror and violence

Eliminate the tyranny of magic from mankind.

conquering territory is one thing, while administering it is quite another.

Be warned, child, you have the true power of the tongue. You have never seen it. It will be a terrible doing if you ever let it loose.

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.