Quotes About Control

She did not care.they where obedient. They died at her word. That was important, the rest was nothing.

One word," he breathed into her ear, so low no one would be able to hear. "One word from your idiot mouth and next time I'll finish the job, I swear t'God." He nuzzled, his lips seemingly caressing her outer ear. "Understand?

Somehow, though, they managed to ignore the fact that being the dominant species on Earth meant that absolutely nothing about their position was inevitable or beyond their control.

Delta to Control, any sniper teams to the south of Embry? Any Gears at all?

Politics were the ultimate frustration.

In my experience,...the humans who talk most loudly about freedom are the ones who think it's so good that nobody else should have any of it.

Marriage. That's what he called it, though men like Paul do not marry women. They own them. They control them. They are voracious gluttons who devour every part of a woman, then clean their teeth with the bones.

around for your entire adult life, then set it the fuck down, because it doesn't belong to you. It belongs to him.

Charlie watched her husband's boss grip the sides of the podium like he was about to sodomize it.

As Kate had told her Oma the night before, there was no society more viciously controlled by rumor than your local police force.

older and she always got to drive. She opened

His voice had changed again. He liked this. He liked seeing her squirm. He was absorbing her fear like a succubus. Lydia heard an echo of the last words Paul Scott had ever spoken to her: Tell me you want this.

Press evenly," the praying mantis said, chewing off the wings of a fly.

People don't take power. Somebody has to give it to them.

The entire world gave men the responsibility for everything in it except for their dicks.

Because I want you to stay at Rick's tonight." Lydia paused. "Because I said so." She paused again. "Sweetheart, I know you're an adult, but adults are like vampires. The older ones are much more powerful.

Like most bullies, he could never sustain any one emotion.

Then I ask myself what would happen if that grimy metal mesh were taken away. What would a man like Ben Carver do to me if there were no guards posted, no barrier between us? Would he explicate Spenser's Faerie Queene or would he cut me open and sample a sliver of my pancreas?

you will eventually reach a point where that tight control you have over every single aspect of your life is going to fail spectacularly. Something is bound to happen. And it might be good, or it might be bad

He narrows your life. That's what men like Nick do. They pull you away from everything you love so that they are the only thing you focus on." Laura felt the need to add, "If you let them.

She had to start making decisions rather than having life make decisions for her.

Modern bourgeois society with its relations of production, of exchange, and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer, who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells.

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

Education is free. Freedoom of education shall be enjoyed under the condition fixed by law and under the supreme control of the state