Quotes About Control

I like to do all the talking myself.  It saves time, and prevents arguments." "But

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People.

Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us.

What has the actual lapse of time got to do with it? It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob

There are three kinds of despots.  There is the despot who tyrannises over the body.  There is the despot who tyrannises over the soul.  There is the despot who tyrannises over the soul and body alike.  The first is called the Prince.  The second is called the Pope.  The third is called the People.  The Prince may be cultivated. 

The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion - these are the two things that govern us

Thou art the same: 'tis I whose wretched soul Takes discontent to be its paramour, And gives its kingdom to the rude control Of what should be its servitor,—for sure Wisdom is somewhere, though the stormy sea Contain it not, and the huge deep answer ''Tis not in me.' To

If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him.

The press today is an army with carefully organized weapons, the journalists its officers, the readers its soldiers. The reader neither knows nor is supposed to know the purposes for which he is used and the role he is to play.

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for no god may undo what another god has done...

Should anyone here in Rome lack finesse at love-making, Let him Try me - read my book, and the results are guaranteed! Technique is the secret. Charioteer, sailor, oarsman, All need it. Technique can control Love himself.

An animal more like the gods than these, more intellectually capable and able to control the other beasts, had not as yet appeared: now man was born, either

Providence makes use of instruments I'd not touch with a ten-foot pole.

I keep hearing this fucking thing that guns don't kill people, but people kill people. If that's the case, why do we give people guns when they go to war? Why not just send the people?

You can't be a successful dictator and design women's underwear. One or the other. Not both.

He looked like a Dictator on the point of starting a purge.

If cats understood technology and had opposable thumbs, they'd rule the world.

Surrender is a powerful force.

There's some shit you just can't control.

What if all I'd ever known was how it had been for the past three years - me being an unwanted outsider in my own family? I might have turned out like Aphrodite, and I might still be letting my parents control me because I was hoping desperately that I would be good enough, make them proud, so that some day they would really love me.

If I can't have my own mate and my own children, then I can at least have my own kingdom.