Quotes About Control

How they loved to promise heads, these men who would be king.

Men are mad and gods are madder.

They would not love me living, so let them dread me dead.

My smile is my servant, he should come at my command.

El poder reside donde los hombres creen que reside.

My trees, they said, you can't eat them apples. My stream, you can't fish here. My wood, you're not t' hunt. My earth, my water, my castle, my daughter, keep your hands away or I'll chop 'em off, but maybe if you kneel t' me I'll let you have a sniff.

There was no slavery in the free city of Pentos. Nonetheless, they were slaves.

When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die.

I can smell defiance, I can smell pride, I can smell disobedience. I catch a whiff of any such stinks, you'll answer for it. When I sniff you, all I want to smell is fear.

You cannot be disciplined in great things and undisciplined in small things. Brave undisciplined men have no chance against the discipline and valour of other men. Have you seen a few policemen handle a crowd?

the guarantee of cheap labor was an effective means of luring new industries into the South; that so long as the ignorant white masses could be kept thinking of the menace of the Negro to Caucasian race purity and political control, they would give little thought to labor organization. It suddenly dawned upon Matthew Fisher that this Black-No-More treatment was more of a menace to white business than to white labor.

You can bind my body, tie my hands, govern my actions: you are the strongest, and society adds to your power; but with my will, sir, you can do nothing.

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.

Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.

The worship of power is an old religion.

The man who is not permitted to own is owned.

When the People contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything for their Victory but new Masters.

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.

I'm the decider, and I decide what is best.

If this were a dictatorship it would be a heck of a lot easier... as long as I'm the dictator. Hehehe.

two well-recognized economic principles. First, the firmer the monopolistic controls in a given market, the higher the prices. Second, monopoly prices are discriminatory prices. "Charging all the traffic will bear" does not mean that all the traffic will bear the same charge! In fact, it will not.

International trade in chemical products is not free. . . . Joint control of the market became the general rule; free competition, the exception.

There ought to be limits to freedom.