Quotes About Control

No donde come, sino donde es comido. Cierta asamblea de gusanos políticos está ahora con él. El gusano es el único emperador de la dieta; nosotros cebamos a todos los demás animales para engordarnos, y nos engordamos a nosotros mismos para cebar a los gusanos. El rey gordo y escuálido mendigo no son más que servicios distintos, dos platos, pero de una misma mesa; he aquí el fin de todo.

Which shall to all our nights and days to come Give solely sovereign sway and masterdom.

We'll surely go to hell for this. Lady Macbeth: And when we do, we'll rule that too.

Love is your master, for he masters you; And he that is so yoked by a fool, Methinks, should not be chronicled for wise.

Like flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; they kill us for sport.

Boundless intemperance In nature is a tyranny. It hath been Th' untimely emptying of the happy throne And fall of many kings.

The edge of war, like an ill-sheathed knife, No more shall cut his master.

Give me a staff of honor for mine age, / But not a scepter to control the world.

we have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts; whereof I take this, that you call love, to be a sect or scion.

M.O.A. I. doth sway my life.

An extermination center can only manufacture corpses; a society of total domination creates a world of the living dead...

absolute evil paralyzes absolutely. In

the iron determination with which we must carry out Hitler's orders could only be obtained by a stifling of all human emotions.

Once the fight-or-flight reaction gets triggered, the blood flows from our brain to our limbs, and our ability to think clearly diminishes. We forget our purpose and often act exactly contrary to our interests. When we react, we give away our power—our power to influence the other person constructively and to change the situation for the better. When we react, we are, in effect, saying no to our interests, no to ourselves.

If our life is a play, we may not be the playwright, but we can choose to be the director. We can interpret the play as we choose, able to portray ourselves either as victims of destiny or as the captains of our fate. Whether what happens to us is pure accident or not, we are the decisive factor in our life: we may not always be able to choose our circumstances, but we are able to choose our responses to them.

My friend Donna even likes to give humorous names to her reactive emotions such as "Freddy Fear," "Judge Judy," and "Anger Annie.

Government got too big—too powerful. Agencies like the IRS had entirely too much power.

That's right. An unarmed population is an invitation for takeover.

If the government would build a good fence and man it properly, we could actually control this border

John Adams said it: fear is the foundation of government. And I'll add to that: once the citizens lose that fear, a government cannot enforce its laws. If you doubt that, look at what's happening in this country today." Matt

It is not love, or morality, or international law that determines the outcome of world affairs, but the changing distribution of organized force

God does not guide those who want to run their own life.

A man is about as big as the things that make him angry

We are the masters of our fate.