Quotes About Control

It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.

He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.

It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.

If you don't use your power, you won't have any power." It was like fundraising, where you wanted to ask people for favors, just as a cow had to be milked in order to keep the milk

It's hard to put a leash on a dog once you've put a crown on its head.

Power resides only where men believe it resides. . . . A very small man can cast a very large shadow.

Some day you'll sit on the throne and the truth will be what you make it.

Tears aren't a woman's only weapon. The best one's between your legs.

A ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.

Well," he explained to Em, "you start then with, say, a million rats, half of them being does or bitches or whatever you call lady rats.

A man might befriend a wolf, even break a wolf, but no man could truly tame a wolf.

Power resides where men believe it resides. A very small man can cast a very large shadow.

In the game of thrones, even the humblest pieces can have wills of their own. Sometimes they refuse to make the moves you've planned for them.

Power resides where men believe it resides. No more and no less.

Control your generosity when dealing with a chronic borrower.

You little fool. Tears are not a woman's only weapon. You've got another one between your legs, and you'd best learn to use it. You'll find men use their swords freely enough. Both kinds of swords.

I will teach them what it means to put a lion in a cage, Cersei thought.

The day will come when you need them to respect you, even fear you a little. Laughter is poison to fear.

In King's Landing, there are two sorts of people. The players and the pieces… Every man's a piece to start with, and every maid as well. Even some who think they are players." Petyr Baelish

The Iron Throne will go to the man who has the strength to seize it.