Quotes About Control

You know, you should never catch a spy. Discover him and then control him, but never catch him. A spy causes far more trouble when he's caught. Harold Macmillan

The Achilles' heel of authoritarianism is that the leader by the very nature of his position is able to ignore the wisdom of anyone "below" him—that is, anyone who stands between him and the real world. This is what authority means: immunity from competence. —Philip Slater

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.

The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute.

Anger is smaller than the one behind him.

Anger is smaller than the one behind him. (La colère, c'est plus petit Que celui derrière lui)

The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.

An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.

Power ought to serve as a check to power.

But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.

Skewered through and through with office pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.

I am the only child of parents who weighed, measured, and priced everything; for whom what could not be weighed, measured, and priced had no existence.

Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me.

Tell the Wind and the Fire where to stop; not me.

When the time comes, let loose a tiger and a devil; but wait for the time with the tiger and the devil chained -not shown- yet always ready.

Mrs General had no opinions. Her way of forming a mind was to prevent it from forming opinions. She had a little circular set of mental grooves or rails on which she started little trains of other people's opinions, which never overtook one another, and never got anywhere.

You've got the key of the street.

She never went out herself, and like a great many other old ladies of the same stamp, she was apt to consider it an act of domestic treason, if anybody else took the liberty of doing what she couldn't.

You are not in a fit state to come here, if you can't come here without spluttering like a bad pen.

large jaw and a queen with a fair face, on the throne of France. In both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of the State preserves of loaves and fishes, that things in general were settled for ever.

Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop, but don't tell me.