Quotes About Control

I have stated that a democracy is always two years behind the dictator.

The Statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy, but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events. Let us learn our lessons.

I only belive in statistics I doctored myself

I think you must have your feelings under a very good control. You turn them about and face them the way you want them to be. I wish I could do that. What's the secret?

Here, beast, you shall be the chairman, and mind you call us to order. He leaned forward and dropped the cat on the empty seat.

I am not agitated. I am only agitated when someone advises me to reduce my diet.

Demelza was beginning to feel like a lion tamer who has been putting his pets through their paces and finds them getting out of hand.

All her life Demelza's principle, though she did not know it as such, had been never to let the sun go down on her wrath.

Devi avere un ottimo controllo sui tuoi sentimenti visto che li rigiri come più ti piace. Vorrei esserne capace anch'io. Qual è il segreto?»

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.

it is the people who control the Government, not the Government the people.

My conclusion on Freewill and predestination- they are identical.

When you are on a great horse, you have the best seat you will ever have.

and being as wicked as any man who ever lived, he exploited his advantage to the full.

But Governments and peoples do not always take rational decisions. Sometimes they take mad decisions, or one set of people get control who compel all others to obey and aid them in folly.

I declare to you, from the bottom of my heart, that no Socialist system can be established without a political police…No Socialist Government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp, or violently-worded expressions of public discontent. They would have to fall back on some form of Gestapo, no doubt very humanely directed in the first instance.

Logic, like science, must be the servant and not the master of man.

The ugly truth is revealed that fear is the foundation of obedience.

Once the sea battle is joined the whole event is in the hand of the Admiral or his successor as long as he can signal; whereas on land, after zero hour has struck, it escapes for the time being almost entirely from the control of the General.

Duty and prudence alike command, first, that the germ-centres of hatred and revenge should be constantly and vigilantly surveyed and treated in good time, and, secondly, that an adequate organisation should be set up to make sure that the pestilence can be controlled at its earliest beginnings before it spreads and rages throughout the entire earth.

Oy, stil – tiranlar?n aleti!

In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.