Quotes About Control

After all, there's no shape or image in modern culture to match that of the gun. Nothing else has its universal authority or saving promise

The gun's slinky power has a special appeal to the young, the weak, the confused and the powerless. To those overlooked or spurned, access to a firearm is the spark of agency. With a gun in your hands, everything is possible. In a moment you imagine the respect it demands.

firearm would be a dark presence I can do without under my own roof. Too much sinister potential. Too much unearnt power.

It's having the choices that kills a man. It's the best and the worst. You get to choose and you get to regret. Almost guaranteed to bugger it up. And sometimes not.

When you're a member of the privileged group, you don't take kindly to someone telling you that you can't do something

Simplicity, clarity, complexity, and ambiguity are not mutually exclusive states in language; the sensitive typographer is one who can manifest these states in the right mix by controlling the elements at his or her disposal.

A mere look, word, or motion,—a mistake, accident, or want of power,—are all matters for which the slave may be whipped at any time," wrote Douglass

But it would be more precise to say that the master aimed to transform the slave into an automaton by obliterating his sense of personhood.

politics is then basically an act of will, not of reason.

For the Jedi, there is no emotion; there is peace.

All who hold positions of power fear or hate someone. Or something." Arihnda

The fear of the violent and the lawless is no less a tyranny than the edicts that come from the Emperor's throne.

They are a terrible enemy, Eli," Vah'nya said. "Your Empire—your former Empire—forces its will on its slaves through soldiers and weapons and warships. But the Grysks…three can command a nation. A hundred can rule an entire world. Billions of beings, their hearts and souls broken, ready to fight and die at the order of a handful of aliens. No resistance, no revolt, no dissent, no hope.

A man, I'd sometimes thought, who would apologize for the inconvenience as he broke your neck.

Young and enthusiastic, which often came pre-packaged with idealism. That should make them easy to manipulate.

All who hold positions of power fear or hate someone.

Politics, not skill, now dominated the highest levels of military decision-making.

That's the problem with men with money. They think they can do anything they want and get away with it.

If it rusts, it can never be trusted If its owner fails to control it, it will cut him Yes, pride is like a blade

I think one should be antagonistic to one's underlings. It keeps them on their toes. ~Soi Fon

We must never shed tears That is the life form's defeat and if we give into the emotions then it only becomes proof of our inability to control it.

All living things believe in someone superior to them, and cannot live unless they blindly follow them. Then, the objects of their faith try to escape this crushing pressure by seeking another being that is more superior to them to believe in. And they, in turn, seek a stronger being still. That is how all kings are born. That is how... all gods are born. –Aizen

This isn't good enough. Not good enough. I'll never be able to protect Hinamori the way I am. I have to be able to control my bankai and Hyorinmaru much better than this!

Considerations? No thanks, Howard. That's what they make cages out of.