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Quotes About Control

And I think he actually believes the best way to do it is to gain a dictatorship over the Solar System. That ambition rules everything in his life. It has hardened him and strengthened him. He will crush ruthlessly, without a single qualm, anything that stands in his path. That's why we'll have a fight on our hands.
~ Clifford D. Simak
All things fear Man. Man has made all things to fear him.
~ Clifford D. Simak
Believe me, when I say; There are no two powers That command the soul. One is God The other is the tide. -Anon From the novel Abarat
~ Clive Barker
It was that sleep itself—the act of closing the eyes and relinquishing control of her consciousness—was something she was temperamentally unsuited to.
~ Clive Barker
Before she could look to find a wound he had control of the vision once again, but like a juggler attempting to hold too many balls in the air catching one meant loosing another.
~ Clive Barker
All the great powers in the world are blood-suckers and soul-stealers at heart.
~ Clive Barker
Especially politics; that was the best trough to wallow in. You could get your snout, eyes, head and front hooves in that mess of muck and have a fine old time splashing around. It was an inexhaustible subject to devour, a swill with a little of everything in it, because everything, according to Judd, was political.
~ Clive Barker
Muck held the whip hand.
~ Clive Barker
Not a whisper of flatulence would dare this man's bowels.
~ Clive Barker
La narrativa horror] ci mostra che il controllo che crediamo di avere è puramente illusorio e che ogni momento vacilliamo nel caos e nell'oblio.
~ Clive Barker
The proximity of this harem aroused him, despite circumstances. He opned his trousers and caressed his cock, more eager to have the seed spilled and so be freed of these creatures than for the pleasure of it.
~ Clive Barker
Horror shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory.
~ Clive Barker
There was a primitive power in naming someone. It gave you a handle on a person.
~ Clive Barker
Can you send in guards? asked Prue. To, you know, get things under control? We tried that, said the attaché. Only gets them more riled up. They start getting oppressed when you do that.
~ Colin Meloy
Man is as much a slave to his immediate surroundings now as he was when he lived in tree-huts. Give him the highest, the most exciting thoughts about man's place in the universe, the meaning of history; they can all be snuffed out in a moment if he wants his dinner, or feels irritated by a child squalling on a bus.
~ Colin Wilson
fear can be the most powerful of weapons.
~ Colin Woodard
The goal of the Deep Southern oligarchy has been consistent for over four centuries: to control and maintain a one-party state with a colonial-style economy based on large-scale agriculture and the extraction of primary resources by a compliant, poorly educated, low-wage workforce with as few labor, workplace safety, health care, and environmental regulations as possible.
~ Colin Woodard
I've changed my mind, and when we're finished, Victoria, you won't remember your own name... let alone Viogets. ~ Max
~ Colleen Gleason
There will be no redemption because the men who run this place do not want redemption. They want to be as near to hell as they can.
~ Colson Whitehead
That is how the European tribes operate, she said, If they can't control it, they destroy it.
~ Colson Whitehead
That's how the European tribes operate, she said. If they can't control it, they destroy it.
~ Colson Whitehead
She said that white towns had simply banded together to rid themselves of the black stronghold in their midst. That is how the European tribes operate, she said. If they can't control it, they destroy it. If
~ Colson Whitehead
Money was new and unpredictable and liked to go where it pleased. Some
~ Colson Whitehead
I feel about my phone the way horror-movie ventriloquists feel about their dummies: It's smarter than me, better than me, and I will kill anyone who comes between us.
~ Colson Whitehead