Quotes About Control

Some foreign states will act against a dictatorship only to gain their own economic, political, or military control over the country.

Nonviolent struggle both requires and tends to produce a loss (or greater control) of fear of the government and its violent repression. That abandonment or control of fear is a key element in destroying the power of the dictators over the general population.

Three of the most important factors in determining to what degree a government's power will be controlled or uncontrolled therefore are: (1) the relative desire of the populace to impose limits on the government's power; (2) the relative strength of the subjects' independent organizations and institutions to withdraw collectively the sources of power; and (3) the population's relative ability to withhold their consent and assistance.

Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to be real.

One of the easiest ways to dominate a man is to demand something he cannot supply.

Bingeing is such an emotionally frenetic activity that no other concerns can exist in the same space. It is a hell that people who are food-sensitive are familiar with; and, because it is known, it is therefore not so terrifying as some of the problems that are outside our control. Problems like divorce, illness, death.

My Father is the ruler of all the world, and is expressing His directing power through me

Irene realized she was on the point of shouting. Worse, of being ungrammatical. She took a deep breath.

All her life she had been taught that the Language allowed its users to shape reality.

Blind faith is just another word for slavery,

Never trust any ruler, Librarian. They're all untrustworthy.

Panic is the antithesis to good organization. Panic is messy. I am against panic on a point of principle.

Sometimes it seems easier to be Natalie. People force her to do stuff. I have to force myself.

Take responsibility for your own world and never project blame. If you do you lose your power.

For ages the Aborigines had relied heavily on isolation. It was their asset and their liability, and gave them long-term control of the continent. But if their isolation were to end, as it ultimately had to end with a shrinking world, their whole way of life could be fractured. Even the arrival of a few thousand permanent settlers, whether from Europe or Asia, would be like the first tremors of an earthquake.

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Teach them the shame that tells the lie, "I am unforgivable," when the truth is, "I feel unforgivable, but it was out of my control." Never let them switch those round right or The Adversary will liberate them in a heartbeat, like a bird flying from a cage.

We are puppets, pulled by a wire by unknown forces; nothing, nothing ourselves!

The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength.

There is something in our minds like sunshine and the weather, which is not under our control. When I write, the best things come to me from I know not where.

El primer libro que habría que prohibir en el mundo sería un catálogo de libros prohibidos.

No es extraño que quienes dominan al género humano ocupen un rango tan superior al de quienes lo educan? Esto revela hasta qué punto el hombre es un animal esclavo.

The United States could well declare unilaterally that this stage of the Vietnam war is over—that we have "won" in the sense that our Armed Forces are in control of most of the field and no potential enemy is in a position to establish its authority over South Vietnam.

The hand is thought of as the slave of action. But the slave of action is the master of expression.