Quotes About Control

Violence is the only lever big enough to move the world.

overseers and bosses had increased their scrutiny and would be extra vigilant on the full moon, the white beacon that so often agitated the slave with a mind to run.

That is how the European tribes operate, she said. If they can't control it, they destroy it. If

If you had the power to make people do what you wanted and never exercised it, what was the point of having it?

Patrol was not difficult work. They stopped any niggers they saw and demanded their passes. They stopped niggers they knew to be free, for their amusement but also to remind the Africans of the forces arrayed against them, whether they were owned by a white man or not.

Archimedes, one of his first encyclopedia finds. Violence is the only lever big enough to move the world.

Carpenter snarled when he said the word, a mangy dog hoarding his bone:

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.

In the dank utility room deep in the subbasements of my personality, a little man wiped his hands on his overalls and pulled the switch: More.

Women and animals, you only have to break them in once, he said. They stay broke. All

They were the paper of record, which meant they were in the business of protecting the system

Also, Archimedes, one of his first encyclopedia finds. Violence is the only lever big enough to move the world.

the shadow of the master, the reminder that

She didn't agree with the popular arguments for slavery but saw it as a necessary evil given the obvious intellectual deficiencies of the African tribe. To free them from bondage all at once would be disastrous—how would they manage their affairs without a careful and patient eye to guide them?

When she got older, she described herself as a student of American history, attuned to the inevitable. 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.

You need to be strong to survive the labor and to make us greater. We fatten hogs, not because it pleases us but because we need hogs to survive. But we can't have you too clever. We can't have you so fit you outrun us." She

Memory is the past with volume control.

Fear makes money, and it makes laws, and it takes land, and it builds settlements, and fear likes to keep everyone silent.

The thing about the Occupation is that it never let you decide. It took away your ability for choice. Banish it and choice would appear.

In the war I was subject to military law, but subject to law nevertheless; now I am at the mercy of an arbitrary power.

He is in control, but He will give us what we ask for. If all of this was God's will, then we wouldn't have to pray for His will to be done.

Near as she could figure, government was just the biggest of the big cons, with everybody trying to get the best of it for themselves and sting the other guys.

Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you.

Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you. There