Quotes About Control

FIRST YOU PILLAGE, THEN YOU BURN. THOSE WHO DO NOT COMPLY WILL BE SUSPENDED FROM THE RAIDING TEAM.

Is your day the one that you really wanted or is it the day that turned up?

I'm not the smartest guy, but I can outwork you. It's the one thing I can control.

She did things to keep her man happy; I did things to keep my man from killing me.

Organization is the Devil's work.

Those who have privileges inevitably hold on to them, and hold tight, no matter how marginal the advantage involved, until compelled to bow to superior power of one sort or another.

Okay," Nellie said, "whatcha got?" Dan's expression was pure smugness. "I want you to beg," he said.

Imperialism was the system of control which secured the markets and capital investments. Colonialism facilitated this expansion by ensuring that there was European control, which necessarily meant securing and subjugating the indigenous populations.

The imperial imagination enabled European nations to imagine the possibility that new worlds, new wealth and new possessions existed that could be discovered and controlled.

He is a breaker of things and people

A bully is only a coward who needs to be shown who's really in charge.

speaking at age 61] In the morning I feel about 50; then, depending on how the day goes, I might get down to about 22. When I'm directing on stage I'm 43, and 32 when making a film because I feel less in control. Acting? Oh, then I'm 24. And when I'm on my own, I feel about 17 and think the world is all before me.

'Tis the mind must guide the hand.

Emperors may come and go, bringing more or less chaos, but the bureaucrats keep the wheels turning.

But, remember, a tyrant hates to admit he is one,' Faustus said quietly. 'The worse he is, the more he claims – and even believes – that traditional religion and democracy matter to him deeply and determine all his actions.

Dictators love to talk. It is remarkable how men who wield excessive sole power will be consistent in this: Given a captive audience, they all drone on for hours. And hours. The human brain can only concentrate for twenty minutes, ask any teacher. Dictators have rarely been despatched on a training course to learn that simple fact. Many dictators are completely untrained; tyranny comes to them naturally.

What's going on in the Senate is kind of a politics of escalation. We're getting sort of like the Mideast: pay back everybody when you're in charge.

All of math is mine.

Conquest is the symptom of a craze.

Genes rule the world.

Life on the plantation can be calm. You can even be happy and find fulfillment on the plantation. It may be possible to be friends with the plantation owner. Heck, the plantation owner might even let you run the plantation. But, all of these privileges are only afforded to you as long as you stay on the plantation.

Power is acquired, not distributed. Equity is what gets distributed.

You ask for a savior, and you become their slave.

You can do almost anything, but you can undo absolutely nothing.