Quotes About Control

I wouldn't mind giving the feds their cut if they weren't so damn nosy, if any of them actually read the constitution and if they didn't spend every penny on some harebrained scheme.

Whoever first gains the power to impose their own view decides the issue? Isn't that the definition of barbarism?

Emma smiled thinly. "The pills say wake up, and we wake up. We won't ever fall asleep at the wrong time again. But it's like being an animal in a factory farm, pushed along between the rails, going wherever you want us to go.

The wonderful thing about hope is that it has absolutely no effect on anything. Just throw the switch.

I want you to gain power over what happened to you instead of letting it have power over you.

Any person who wants to govern the world is by definition the wrong person to do it.

He couldn't control what he felt, but he could certainly control what he DID.

God either rules as sovereign in interpretation over *all* areas of life or none.

Christ does not settle for a part-time or restricted reign as King. He demands obedience in all things from us, and His aim is to subdue all resistance - of any nature (internal or external) - to His rule.

Satan, whom Paul labeled as "the god of this evil world," is so clever that he has fooled many people into thinking that he doesn't even exist—while in reality he controls their very lives.

When women take charge, things start to get out of control really fast.

Our downfall as a species is that we are arrogant enough to think that we can control Mother Nature and stupid enough to think it is our job.

Since] a player controls every character, it is that player's intelligence that dictates the character's goals and actions, not an arbitrary number on a character sheet. Thus, in a sense, the player _is_ the character's "intelligence score"!

The power play is as methodical as even strength is designed to be chaotic.

Most husbands seek to kill their wives' loves so we'll love only them. They are insecure little boys.

to overcome the fear that may be in our lives today, we must first master the patterns that allow it to exist. Figure 12.

If you find someone threatening, make him your own. It was like psychological cannibalism.

According to Kant's late work on the Principles of Politics (1793), the irreducible problem of the human species is the following: the human being is an animal and thus, to live peacefully with other animals of its kind, absolutely needs a master.

She'd done exactly what she'd wanted to do. Making people unhappy was her way of having fun.

Laws, enforced by the sword, control behavior but cannot change hearts.

Yet how could the Empire possibly have kept itself stable, using such crude creatures as humans?

Power is not to be dropped from a plane

Love is the opposite of power. That's why we fear it so much.

Fear has also been used to carry out a redistribution of wealth—which is to say back under the control of the state, where Putin is chief among a collection of officials whose roles more closely resemble those of Mafia dons than public servants.