Quotes About Control

Is there something in women that makes us long to be humbled? Or is it something in human beings, that when we are overmastered, we rejoice in our subjection? That would explain a lot of history.

Peter had been right, always right; 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.

but the most important message was this: the adults are the enemy, not the other armies. They do not tell us the truth.

War gets invented every time there's somebody so hungry for domination that he can't leave peaceful nations alone.

If you can own property, how are you a slave?" asked Rigg. "Because your owner can move you to one place or another, can break up your marriage, can sell your children to some other owner, can decide how much education you'll receive, and what work you'll do, and what hours you'll keep.

You get all the pleasures of the puppeteer. Until you get a soldier who can do more than anyone else. You can't have that. It spoils the symmetry. You must get him in line, break him down, isolate him, beat him until he gets in line with everyone else.

What does it matter, to tell yourself that the thing controlling you comes from outside, if in fact you only experience it inside your own heart? Where can you run from it? How can you hide?

The pride of universal guilt. It's a form of vanity and egomania. She holds herself responsible for things that could not possibly be her fault. As if she controlled everything, as if other people's suffering came about as punishment for her sins.

That's why I don't want him to take our babies away from me. I must have them all, the way conquerors have had to have this city. I must have them. That is my empire.

no nation is governable except by overwhelming force or complete cooperation.

Valentine could persuade other people to her point of view- she could convince them that they wanted what she wanted them to want. Peter, on the other hand, could only make them fear what he wanted them to fear.

I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

Everything in moderation, including moderation.

I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked.

Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.

Life is terrible. It rules us, we do not rule it.

It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.

In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press.

The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.

The world is run by brutal men and the surest proof is their armies.

Don't use cannon to kill musquito.

Do everything in moderation, even moderation.

He that rules by mind is like the north star, steady in his seat, whilst the stars all bend to him.

I'm not used to having my civil liberties taken away like this. In America, nobody would dream of telling you where you can or can't go." And over thirty million Americans died during the Pandemic as a result of that sort of thinking, he thought. "I