Quotes About Control

As long we insist on writing our own stories, he cannot write his living will onto our hearts.

Gene police! You! Out of the pool, now!

Politics is shit; it corrupts everything it touches...

Anything under God's control is never out of control.

dominant groups tend to entrench their hegemony by inculcating an image of inferiority in the subjugated.

He recognized that, first, the rich are always desirous of governing for their own benefit, and second that the people can always turn against them and become a mob, taking things into its own hands. As always, the mean between extremes is to be sought.

Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards.

One of the most startling commentaries on this century is the fact that millions more have died at the hands of their own governments than in wars with other nations — all to preserve someone's power.

I'd always follow Nixon's orders, but you can't order somebody to be happy.

For most of us, life is messy and confusing, filled with paradoxes. We wake up in the night, worrying about our jobs, our kids, or the best laid plans, which suddenly unravel due to the pressures of living in our high-tech, fast-moving world. One day we seem to have things under control; the next day we get steamrollered by events. If you haven't experienced this, please write me; you would be the first person I know to have life all together.

It's like all technology: either not powerful enough or too powerful. It will never do exactly what you want it to do.

Working your way up the system doesn't mean you beat the system. It strengthens it. It's what the system depends on.

If you don't respect fear then there's no way you can handle it. Fear can be damn dangerous, but if you can come to grips with it, wrestle it, understand it, then you've got a chance to work around it.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

L'uomo è un animale addomesticato che per secoli ha comandato sugli altri animali con la frode, la violenza e la crudeltà

You need Power, only when you want to do something harmful otherwise Love is enough to get everything done.

HEART OF MY HEART, ROCK OF MY SOUL, YOU CHANGED MY LIFE WHEN YOU TOOK CONTROL

Writing is a bit like being a god

Yeah?' Alfie yelled, his voice high-pitched and hysterical. 'You hear that? That's me! Alfie Walker. Yeah? And I'm cleverer than you dumb bitches! You stupid ugly farts. Yeah, knock on the door all you like – you ain't coming in. And, if you do, I'll split you with my knife. I'll rip your rotten guts out. I'll kick your brains up

Once we understand how they think, we can predict their behaviour. And once we predict it well, we can manipulate it. That is diplomacy.

The world doesn't just jump out of its axis on its own.

Money makes people stupid. They don't have to work as hard as people who don't have money. That's why the smart people who do have money mostly use it for one thing… They use it to make sure the people without it don't get any more.

But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master -- something that at times strangely wills and works for itself. If the result be attractive, the World will praise you, who little deserve praise; if it be repulsive, the same World will blame you, who almost as little deserve blame.

Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms. The passions may rage furiously, like true heathens, as they are; and the desires may imagine all sorts of vain things: but judgment shall still have the last word in every argument, and the casting vote in every decision.