Quotes About Control

Has not the country become independent? Be sure, though, that they will direct our affairs from afar. This is because they have left behind them people who think as they do.

Guárdate de la ira del hombre bueno, pues es como el rayo que puede destruir una ciudad». Sin embargo, dejémosle que viva. Lo necesitamos como máscara.

En cada generación nacen hombres perversos y el deber de una nación es hacerlos impotentes. Cuando veas a un hombre que ambicione el poder, lleno de odio y desprecio hacia sus semejantes, destrúyelo, Marco. Si alguien pretende cargos porque secretamente ambiciona lo que denomina "las masas" y desea controlarlas para esclavizarlas, prometiéndoles placeres que no han merecido, denúncialo. Debes tener presente Roma.

who do you honestly believe rules any nation? The apparent rulers, or the real ones behind the scenes who manipulate a nation's finances for their own benefit? Mr. Lincoln is as helpless as you and I. He can only, unfortunate man, give his people slogans, and slogans, it would appear, are what the people want. I have yet to hear of a nation that ever rejected a war.

la clase media sirve para algo, es para trabajar y pagar impuestos con los que podamos sobornar a la plebe de Roma y tenerla contenta y dócil. Es cierto que los plebeyos de Roma son como animales, pero son muchos y necesitamos sus votos para alcanzar el poder. Que la clase media nos sirva hasta el final, porque los nuevos ciudadanos no piensan más que en el trabajo, la industria, el ahorro y otras preocupaciones vulgares por el estilo.»

Bernadette never learned that a restrained voice meant dignity and control of strong feeling or good manners, especially in women. She thought such a voice was servile, fit only for servants, and that the possessor was timid, humble, inferior, and worthy only of abuse and peremptory correction.

Es para imponer el despotismo, todas las guerras se han hecho para eso.

Aumentando los impuestos es como un gobierno cruel y monstruoso puede monopolizar todo el poder; porque entonces puede establecer un sistema de premios y castigos: premios para los que permiten la tiranía y castigos para lo que se le opongan.

It is related," said the grandfather, "that a lion, once he has tasted the blood and the flesh of a man, will eat no other meat. Our government has tasted the blood and the flesh of the people; it has tasted, suddenly, unlimited power.

To be a successful investor requires being a good risk manager. Managing risk means having a plan to cover the downside. That's what insurance is all about—damage control to prevent the unforeseen from smashing your nest egg.

You can invest in both a Coverdell ESA and a 529 plan at the same time. You're allowed to change the beneficiary to another family member. Finally, unlike an UGMA or UTMA Custodial account, you retain complete control of the assets.

My legs are really long and that's cool apparently, but I'm totally klutzy. I mean, I'm like Bambi. I fall all over myself because I can't control my arms and my really long legs.

Nazi headquarters

We like the idea that there's always someone responsible for any given event, because it helps us make sense of the world. We like that so much that sometimes we blame ourselves, just so that there's someone to blame. But not everything is under our control, or even anyone's control.

The prospect of living without interference, living in a world where windfalls and misfortunes were never by design, held no terror for him.

Men are no different from your automata; slip a bloke a piece of paper with the proper figures on it, and he'll do your bidding.

Fate laughs at (wo)men's schemes.

Control over my body continues to grow. By now I could walk on hot coals or stick needles in my arm, if I were so inclined. However, my interest in Eastern meditation is limited to its application to physical control; no meditative trance I can attain is nearly as desirable to me as my mental state when I assemble gestalts out of elemental data.

A dog may understand dozens of commands, but it will never do anything but bark.

now lets me provoke precise reactions in others. With pheromones and muscle tension, I can cause another

We like the idea that there's always someone responsible for any given event, because that helps us make sense of the world. We like that so much that sometimes we blame ourselves, just so that there's someone to blame. But not everything is under our control, or even anyone's control.

He means the Word: the sentence that, when uttered, would destroy the mind of the listener.

Men are no different from your automata; slip a bloke a piece of paper with the proper figures on it, and he'll do your bidding." The room grew light as the man lit an oil lamp.

Knowledge of the future was incompatible with free will. What made it possible for me to exercise freedom of choice also made it impossible for me to know the future.