Quotes About Control

Wars are often waged not because of what we believe, but because of the things we want others to believe.

we must always be vigilant, because power comes infected with the only disease left to us: the virus called human nature.

Monster only had the power that you gave them

A pedestal is the most insidious prison ever devised.

Suddenly it was obvious to Connor why they don't teach it. Once education was restructured and corporatized, they didn't want kids knowing how close they came to toppling the government. They didn't want kids to know how much power they really had.

You'll find in life, Caden, that many decisions are made by morons in high places.

History is written by the victors--and when there is no victors, it all winds up in the corporate shredders.

That's exactly what the scythedom is: high school with murder.

How frustrating it is to have so much power, yet be so impotent to wield it when it counts.

Don't I have a choice in this?" But when she looks behind her, the answer is clear. There are two guards waiting to make sure that she has no choice at all. And as they lead her away, she thinks of Mr. Durkin. With a bitter laugh, Risa realizes that he may get his wish after all. Someday he may see her hands playing in Carnegie Hall. Unfortunately, the rest of Risa won't be there.

They will find whatever button will make you dance, and dance you will, no matter how hideous the tune.

One could say, Ayn, that he has cast himself as Atlas. Which means the slightest shrug can shake the world.

So much of my life had been under tight control. So much of Quinn's life had been wild insanity. What we needed now was both: a directed burst of controlled insanity.

Did Constantine actually just say that? Hell would be freezing over if the Thunderhead weren't controlling its weather.

The all-seeing government can be very nearsighted when it comes to scrutinizing the actions of its own appendages.

Permission is the bloated corpse of freedom.

As far as authority is concerned, calm people quietly dying is a lot easier to deal with than angry people fighting for their lives.

To be completely helpless in the face of life?powerless to do a single thing?that's what I'd always feared more than anything. It was like I'd been keeping all the edges of my life neat and clean, pretending the neatness was all that mattered, pretending life could somehow be controlled.

Luck is for losers. You have history on your side. You have gravity. You have authority. You are the Granddame of Death.

Their fate rested entirely on me. I could save them by telling the truth. I could destroy them by lying. No one should have that much power.

I feel as if my entire life depends on my holding it together.

There is a fine line between freedom and permission. The former is necessary. The latter is dangerous.

whoever holds the torch casts the darkest shadow.

have found that building a sandbox around a domineering child, then allowing that child to preside over it, frees the adults to do the real work.