logo

Quotes About Control

Remember how the first world war broke out. It broke out as a result of the desire to redivide the world.
~ Joseph Stalin
The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media.
~ William Colby
If we had fifty Eichmann's, we would have won the war.
~ Heinrich Muller
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
~ George Orwell, 1984
Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
~ C. S. Lewis
When the common soldiers are too strong and their officers too weak, the result is insubordination. When the officers are too strong and the common soldiers too weak, the result is collapse.
~ Sun Tzu
It's not a war on drugs, it's a war on personal freedom.
~ Bill Hicks
Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate.
~ Sun Tzu
Naturally the common people don't want war. . . but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along. . .
~ Hermann Goring
Every nation has its war party. It is not the party of democracy. It is the party of autocracy. It seeks to dominate absolutely.
~ Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
Force is never more operative than when it is known to exist but is not brandished.
~ Alfred Thayer Mahan
In a life and death struggle, we cannot afford to leave our destinies in the hands of failures.
~ Clement Attlee
Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
~ John Lindsay
All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates.
~ Frank Chodorov
War is the health of the state.
~ Randolph Bourne
The war against illegal file-sharing is like the church's age-old war against masturbation. It's a war you just can't win.
~ Lawrence Lessig
Washington...has become an alien city-state that rules America, and much of the rest of the world, in the way that Rome ruled the Roman Empire.
~ Richard J. Maybury
The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
~ George Orwell
Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid.
~ Bob Dylan
Do not engage an enemy more powerful than you. And if it is unavoidable and you do have to engage, then make sure you engage it on your terms, not on your enemy's terms.
~ Sun Tzu
Slavery cannot exist a day or an hour anywhere, unless it is supported by local police regulations.
~ Stephen A. Douglas
As an ultimate objective, "peace" simply means communist world control.
~ Vladimir Lenin
The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.
~ Albert Camus