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Quotes About Control

Wars happen because the ones who start them think they can win.
~ Margaret Atwood
Declare not war against your emotions, or prepare for the inevitable defeat!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Iraqi forces are still in control of the city, and they are engaging in an attrition war with the enemy.
~ Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
We have already given in example one effectual check to the dog of war by transferring the power of letting him loose from the Executive to the Legislative body
~ Thomas Jefferson
The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece ofspecious humbug designed to conceal it's desire for economic control ofthe Southern states.
~ Charles Dickens
Politics is war without blood, while war is politics with blood.
~ Mao Zedong
Those are the men, ' added Bolkonsky with a sigh which he could not suppress, as they went out of the palace, 'those are the men who decide the fate of nations.
~ Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
When it is necessary they can be prodded into frenzies of fear and hatred, but when left to themselves they are capable of forgetting for long periods that the war is happening.
~ George Orwell, 1984
So far war has been the only force that can discipline a whole community and until an equivalent discipline is organized I believe that war must have its way.
~ William James
Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
~ Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.
~ Sun Tzu, The Art of War
If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.
~ Sun Tzu, The Art of War
War made the state, and the state made war
~ Charles Tilly
Nobody could rule this world merely by peace.
~ Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
Whoever won the war, would revise the history.
~ Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
War is too important to be left to the generals
~ Georges Clemenceau
Risk is the factor of a stratagem measured by what man is powerless to control.
~ Mike Norton, White Mountain
Some people think that nothing moves in this world without leave of the woman. Do not know more, but I can say that war never happened, nor can there be, when you do not want to leave sovereign
~ José de Alencar
The warrior must never get angry in war.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Hell, any game that gives its players guns is probably not the kind that'll ever really let you go free.
~ Jeanne Ryan, Nerve
Morality is decided by the victors
~ Ian V Hamrick
You cannot intimidate people with real bullets, but you can intimidate them with fake gun.
~ Amit Kalantri
Man kept control over the machines he created, I wish God would have done the same with the man he created.
~ Amit Kalantri
Every man engaged in war tells himself he can alter what has been written, that it is he, not God, who is the maker of destiny, free to change what is meant to be.
~ Alice Hoffman, The Dovekeepers