Quotes About Control

It's my firm conviction, now more than ever, that the degree to which we are able and willing to struggle for ownership of our attention is the degree to which we are free.

A gun is more important here than the Koran.

And Shelly wondered why Ivy lived by her lists.

Worst of all, she realized, Zohrane was without fear, and fear is the braking system of intelligence.

Break the character and independence of your man and you will have an obedient trooper.

Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. . . . It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul. William Ernest Henley

We find that a high plane of sustained horror is often convenient for reasons of state. — Inspector Kraus (Gestapo)

Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.

As a brother, a landlord, a master, she considered how many people's happiness were in his guardianship! -- How much of pleasure or pain it was in his power to bestow! -- How much of good or evil must be done by him!

A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

From politics, it was an easy step to silence

Married women, you know, may be safely authorised. It is my party. Leave it all to me. I will invite your guests. No, he calmly replied, there is but one married woman in the world whom I can ever allow to invite what guests she pleases to Donwell, and that one is- Mrs. Weston, I suppose, interrupted Mrs. Elton, rather mortified. No, Mrs. Knightley; and, till she is in being, I will manage such matters myself.

every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason.

Don't act yourself, if you do not like it, but don't expect to govern everybody else.

Angry people are not often wise.

the world is not their's, nor the world's law

I cannot intend anything which it must be so completely beyond my power to command.

todo impulso del sentimiento ha de ser dirigido por la razón y en mi opinión , el esfuerzo debe de ser proporcional a lo que se pretende.

but every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.

Some people say... that violence and war are inevitable. I say rubbish: Our brains are fully capable of controlling instinctive behavior. We're not very good at it though, are we?

Societies only seem stable when they are ruled over by an autocratic government.

we're the only ones in control of our happiness.

What he didn't do was control me, or try to mold me into a little wife, some old-fashioned, muted version of who I was. I saw many men do that to many women I knew. They would choose these vibrant, talented, beautiful women, and suck the life and passion and beauty out of them by bullying them into submission.