Quotes About Control

All the vested interests and people who profit by war will - with the journals they control - resolutely oppose any reduction of armaments.

Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit.

With the shock of war the state comes into its own again.

War is about remaking the world to suit the whims of some powerful group over the whims of some other powerful group. The dead are just the sparks that fly from the metal as they grind it down.

And it's been proved that soldiers don't go mad Unless they lose control of ugly thoughts That drive them out to jabber among the trees.

We...are not really free if we can't control our own government and its policies. And we will never do that if we remain ignorant.

In a war the aggressor sets the rules.

If I had to guess and put a name on it, I'd say that at some point, the drug war was as much a function of class and social control as it was of racism.

Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.

Please give reason. Raised taxes; marching us off to war again; approved more NSA snooping. WHO ARE THEY?!

The object of war is victory, the object of victory is conquest, and the object of conquest is occupation.

America won the Cold War by protecting our strategic resources from the threat of foreign control. We must bring the same attitude to our trade relationship with China.

Book cover, 'Reefer Club' Totalitarianism is when people believe they can punish their way to perfection.

The only security for the American people today, or for any people, is to be found through the control of force rather than the use of force.

The important thing in war is that there is an element of rage, but you must remain very distant from it.

The fights I fought... cost a lot --the fight for the assault-weapons ban cost 20 members their seats in Congress. The NRA is the reason the Republicans control the House.

They didn't give their lives for their country! their lives were taken from them by their government.

War is the father and king of all.

It occurred to me that we live in a lunatic world where the only way to maintain peace is to have an enormous war-making machine.

It was an old lesson learned by governments: that war solves problems of control.

We have no control over the outcome of anything. Like the planet and global warming, we don't control that. If politicians want a war we don't control that. Acts of terrorism, we can't control them.

. . . unfortunately, we can't control the actions of everyone.

War knows no law except that of might.

I wonder what I can do about war. Is it the destiny of human kind to eventually wipe ourselves out with these weapons of mass destruction? Are we stupid to think that we can control them?