Quotes About Control

Good God, what men can do to their brains when their cocks are hard. It is truly amazing.

who could deny the Pope when he held the keys of heaven in his hand?

We are two women who have recognised that we cannot control the world. We are players in this game but we do not choose our own moves. The men will play us for their own desires. All we can do is try to survive whatever happens next.

If I refuse?" I asked, my voice very thin. He gave me his most cynical smile that left his eyes as cold as wet coals. "You don't," he said simply. "The world's not changed that much yet. Men still rule.

She prayed while you were raping me?" I ask him. "It isn't rape," he says. "Stop saying that. You're a fool to call it that. Since we're betrothed, it cannot be rape. As my wife you cannot refuse me. I have a right to you, as your betrothed husband. From now, till your death, you will never be able to refuse me. There can be no rape between us, only my rights and your duty." He

Why are you storing forbidden books?' I cried out in frustrated anger. 'Why store John Dee's books for him?' His face was gentle. 'Because all books are forbidden when a country turns to terror.

Even in that short time he had seen that Anne had great power. She did not care if she quarreled with her uncle, or with any of the men at court that could have been her allies. She did not care who hated her, as long as the king was at her beck and call. And she could ruin any man she chose.

The thought of a king who can determine not only what life his people lead but even the nature of the God they worship makes me shiver.

Men command the world that they know," she says. "Everything that men know, they make their own. Everything that they learn, they claim for themselves. They are like the alchemists who look for the laws that govern the world, and then want to own them and keep them secret. Everything they discover, they hug to themselves; they shape knowledge into their own selfish image. What is left to us women but the realms of the unknown?

You must learn that you do not have to be angry just because you have the right to be.

Do not panic! Lord Thistlebottom

A healthy boundary creates controlled vulnerability.

He who conquers the streets conquers the masses; and he who conquers the masses conquers the state.

Yo declaro que la justicia no es otra cosa que la conveniencia del más fuerte.

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear from them then he is always stirring up some wary or other in order that the people may require a leader.

Appearance tyrannizes over truth.

And then, at this stage, every dictator comes up with the notorious and typical demand: he asks the people for bodyguards to protect him, the people's champion.

To the degree that I cease to persue my deepest passions, I will gradually be controlled by my deepest fears.

A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his senses and his reason has deserted him.

those who govern ought not to be lovers of the task? For, if they are, there will be rival lovers, and they will fight.

First and best victory is to conquer self. To be conquered By self is, of all things. the most shameful and objectionable.

Whereas the truth is that the State in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best and most quietly governed, and the State in which they are most eager, the worst.