Quotes About Control

in this place everything is forbidden, not for hidden reasons, but because the camp has been created for that purpose.

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How can one hit a man without anger?

But whether or not God CHOOSES to do something is a question of His sovereignty, not His ability.

Some fathers exasperate their children by being overly strict and controlling. They need to remember that rearing children is like holding a wet bar of soap — too firm a grasp and it shoots from your hand, too loose a grip and it slides away. A gentle but firm hold keeps you in control.

Television has greater power over the lives of most Americans than any educational system or government or church. It is the control center of most homes-more ubiquitous and more controlling than Orwell's Big Brother

Dietrich Bonhoeffer made the observation that when lust takes control, "At this moment God . . . loses all reality. . . . Satan does not fill us with hatred of God, but with forgetfulness of God."5

He no longer heard Kellhus speak so much as observed him cut and carve, whittle and hew, as though the man had somehow shattered the glass of language and fashioned knives from the pieces.

Where power was perceived, power was given. For his entire life Conphas had been surrounded by tutors.

To indulge it is to breed it. To punish it is to feed it. Madness knows no bridle but the knife. —SCYLVENDI

Above all the mighty detest change.

This one thing every tyrant will tell you: nothing saves more lives than murder.

Power, she had come to realize, had the insidious habit of inserting others between you and your tasks, rendering your limbs little more than decorative mementoes of a more human past.

Where power was perceived, power was given.

Sometimes you think that there are several people inside you; one brave, one cowardly; one intelligent, and another who is a fool. You don't seem to be able to control which one it is who takes command of the situation.

To control the future requires the control of education and of the child. Hence, for Christians to tolerate statist education, or to allow their children to be trained thereby, means to renounce power in society, to renounce their children, and to deny Christ's Lordship over all of life.

repeating its words aloud, again and again like a chant: "Dominatio per malum.

It was as if she thought life was a game, and she had to psych everyone out so she'd win.

Myrnin said softly. And how is it that you do not understand that HERE, in THIS place, this girl belongs to me, not to you?

Eve said, in a high, squeaky, airless voice, "The ghost! You're the ghost Miranda was talking about! Oh my God, Michael, you're the ghost! You bastard!" He nodded, still concentrating on breathing. Eve got control of her voice and squealed, "That is without a doubt the coolest damn thing I have ever seen in my entire life!

I'm fine with Nature's way, as long as Nature keeps it out of *my* way.

So you'll just kill anyone who frightens you. Who could hurt you." "Well…yes.

It's an illusion, control, Naomi said. You ought to understand that by now, young Claire. We are never in control of our destinies, even the strongest of us. All we can hope to do is not be too badly damaged by events.