Quotes About Control

The secret of war lies in the communications.

The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.

As a parent you try to maintain a certain amount of control and so you have this tug-of-war ... You have to learn when to let go. And that's not easy.

Peace is absurd: Fascism does not believe in it.

There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not channeled and understood, it will break out in war or in madness.

Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.

I believe - though I may be wrong, because I'm no expert - that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money, power and oil.

Any fool can start a war, and once he's done so, even the wisest of men are helpless to stop it - especially if it's a nuclear war.

I did not come here for the purpose of surrendering my command.

Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants.

Do not trust governments more than governments trust their own people.

A standing army is a standing menace to liberty.

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

Architecture and war are not incompatible. Architecture is war. War is architecture. I am at war with my time, with history, with all authority that resides in fixed and frightened forms.

My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service.

Guns don't win wars; guns and bombs may kill a man but they cannot make him follow their lead, nor will they ever coerce an unyielding man to yield.

Insubordination may only be the evidence of a strong mind.

Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.

And therefore those skilled in war bring the enemy to the field of battle and are not brought there by him.

When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace.

It is of the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.

If soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army.

Thus the expert in battle moves the enemy, and is not moved by him.

Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision, to the releasing of a trigger.