Quotes About Control

The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.

One mark of a great soldier is that he fight on his own terms or fights not at all.

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.

In war, discipline can do more than fury.

Savage and furious nations, perpetually at war, adore, under diverse names, some God, conformable to their ideas, that is to say, cruel, carnivorous, selfish, blood-thirsty.

I got my head bashed in at a demonstration against the Vietnam War. Police were losing control because they were up against a world they really didn't understand.

A man like me troubles himself little about a million men.

People do not make wars; governments do.

Begin by seizing something which your opponent holds dear; then he will be amenable to your will.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

It is no coincidence that when the thugs tried to wrest control over Grenada, there were 30 Soviet advisors and hundreds of Cuban military and paramilitary forces on the island.

A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

Imperialism is an institution under which one nation asserts the right to seize the land or at least to control the government or resources of another people.

Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.

There is a real split today between those who push the button and those who do the dying.

Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master

We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's.

When you appeal to force, there's one thing you must never do - lose.

Military men are the scourges of the world.

The United States is using its war on drugs as an excuse to expand its control over Latin America.

From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of the Party: WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

When the enemy is at ease, be able to weary him; when well fed, to starve him; when at rest, to make him move. Appear at places to which he must hasten; move swiftly where he does not expect you.

Do you know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?