Quotes About Control

The loneliness of power.

Mine mine mine. That was the curse and power of human beings—that what they saw and loved they had to have. They could share it with other people but only if they conceived of those people as being somehow their own. What we own is ours. What you own should also be ours. In fact, you own nothing, if we want it. Because you are nothing. We are the real people, you are only posing as people in order to try to deprive us of what God means us to have.

If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side. 

Running was the way he dreamed. Having never been in control of his life, his idea of freedom was simply to break free. He dreamed of being at the mercy of the wind, carried aloft and blown here and there, a life of true randomness instead of always being part of someone else's purpose.

the power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can't kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.

The power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can't kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.

Nobody has control of anything. We're all beggars at the throne of fate. But sometimes he has mercy!

To stop a human being from doing something, you must find a way to make the person stop wanting to do it.

How did I become the one to make this decision for everyone?

This was done to you by men and women whose only desire was to enslave you; they have succeeded so well that you are proud of your slavery.

There are many steps on the continuum between controlling something and doing nothing at all.

The power to kill is the only power that matters. -Enders game.

These other armies, they aren't the enemy. It's the teachers, they're the enemy.

Bienvenido a la raza humana. Nadie controla su propia vida, Ender. Lo más que puedes hacer es elegir ser controlado por personas buenas, por personas que te quieran.

The power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and desroy, because if you can't kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.

The emotion she could deal with best was anger.

Once you get a storm started, it's mighty hard to slow it back down again.

We may be young, but we're not powerless. We play by their rules long enough, and it becomes our game.

Pueden ordenar a la Luna que se vuelva azul, pero no por eso cambiará de color. Escucha,Ender, los comandantes tienen la autoridad que tú les permitas tener. Cuanto más obedeces, más poder tienen sobre ti.

At first it was the man of real authority they noticed, but later, where everyone had authority, it was his cargo they cared to see.

Power will always end up with the sort of people who crave it.

I had the foolish idea that we should test for desirable and useful traits so that we could assemble ideally balanced teams to the colonies. [...] It's like those foolish attempts to control immigration to America based on the traits that were deemed desirable, when in fact the only trait that defines Americans historically is descended from somebody willing to give up everything to live there.

Don't we all manipulate people? Even if we openly ask them to make a choice, don't we try to frame it so they'll choose as we think they should?

They have influence, but no power. In my experience, influence is power.