Quotes About Control

Chaos and barbarism, which always threatened to overwhelm the movement, sharply increased as bin Laden took the helm.

In my vast experience, I've found it always wiser to go along with female advice.... First, you make them happy by doing what they tell you. That's the main thing. Let them think they're in control. They love it. Then, if it turns out they were right, everything's cool. If it turns out they were wrong ... then you have the pleasure of basking in the glow of superiority.

Tyranny is like the electric wiring in an old house. A tyrant dies, the new tyrant takes possession, and all he has to do is drop the switch.

Blackmail is more effective than bribery.

Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light?

To claim power over what you do not understand is not wise, nor is the end of it likely to be good.

The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coin itself.

Fire and fear, good servants, bad lords.

We are at the mercy of our own narrative impulses.

A dilemma arises when the interests of these deaf adults seem at odds with those of the schoolchildren—for instance, when satisfying the wishes of the former means providing inadequate services to the latter. Some would argue that because hearing people have always controlled the definition of adequacy, that concept is invalid. Others hold that any deaf candidate is preferable to a hearing candidate for a position working with deaf children.

Next time you leave the house, think about who might be watching you. Do you pass a traffic camera? Do the shops you go to have security cameras? Is there a camera on board your train or bus? What about in your school? The cafes and restaurants where you eat? Street corners? Subways? And who is on the other side of that camera? A private security guard? The police? The government? How can you tell?

We rarely control the timing of opportunities, but we can control our preparation

The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country.

Each religion has got their own way of making you feel like a victim. The Christians say "you are a sinner", and you better just zip up your trousers and give the money to the pope and we'll give you a room up in the hotel in the sky.

When men set out to kill and bully, they dress up. Suit of armor. Combat boots. Uniform.

Emotions are the lowest form of consciousness. Emotional actions are the most contracted, narrowing, dangerous form of behavior.

If people had gavels, there would be no wars. If every person in the world had a gavel and could bang it and get everyone's attention right away and make their displeasure known, I believe the level of actual violence in the world would just disappear to practically nothing.

The cardinal sin in poker, worse than playing bad cards, worse even than figuring your odds correctly, is becoming emotionally involved.

Possession of anything begins in the mind.

YOU WILL REIGN IN TERROR WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT! To do otherwise would make a laughing stock of us both.

This needed to be handled with finesse, but you have all the finesse of the Hulk on meth.

Of course it is. Likes are power," Mintner said, and looked at Eve. "You know what I'm saying. Isn't that how you became a homicide detective?

You learn how to coerce people to do your bidding . . . willingly.

In his experience, only children greeted the sight of a police officer with enthusiasm and pleasure. Children like order and security. Most adults do too, but those feelings are complicated by issues of ego, dominance, control, status, and sex, all of which come bubbling up from the bog of the unconscious when you are confronted with a man with the power to take your freedom or your life.