Quotes About Control

Without faith to act as a governor, the human mind is a runaway worry generator, a dynamo of negative expectations.

Arinwald's favorite film has become the version of 1984 starring John Hurt and Richard Burton; the moment that most satisfies in that production is when Burton says to Hurt, "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.

to waste energy and time fanning the flames of anger

He can't endure being powerless. He cannot tolerate it.

I used to believe our subconscious recognition of our true helplessness in the face of cosmic forces was what explained the insane lust for power that makes so many into murderers, rapists, thieves, and raving-mad ideologues. For their kind, such mean control allows the illusion of greatness, inspires even the foolish hope of immortality on Earth.

These are very powerful people.

and takes the Glock in both hands.

Haters lived to hate, to exercise power over those they hated. They were obsessive about it. Focused. Relentless.

She distrusts those who prefer power to money

rotten as the minds of those who believe they can learn all that exists to be known and can control anything they wish to control, who believe that it is their right, above the rights of all other men and women, to shape the destinies of their neighbors, cities, nations, and the Earth entire, according to their whims.

Parker possesses the resources to acquire whatever he wants

he is a wizard at persuading police not to arrest him

Atropos was the goddess who cut the thread of life.

In the past ten years there had been truly amazing advances in those areas of research – psychopharmacology, biochemistry, psychosurgery, clinical psychology – that directly and indirectly contributed to the less reputable but nonetheless hotly pursued science of mind control.

maybe I shouldn't have regarded the ISA as omniscient and omnipresent.

When they believe your lie is the truth, when they fail to see that the freedom you claim to champion is in fact slavery disguised, they'll live by whatever rules you imply without realizing they're being obedient.

The why of a life could never be solved in this world, although vast libraries of solemn books speculated on the meaning and purpose of existence. Nothing could be known other than the what of any single life: what happened, what actions were taken, what events occurred beyond the person's control, what obvious consequences ensued, what impact for better or worse that one life was seen to have on others.

However, she's now been reminded of what she never should have forgotten—that the true prince of this world isn't Moloch. The prince of this world is the father of lies, and his followers are legion. Those who control the narrative

Fear is useful when it's on a leash, Avi once said, but it's always a bad dog when you let it run free in your mind.

People like her are everywhere these days. When they believe your lie is the truth, when they fail to see that the freedom you claim to champion is in fact slavery disguised, they'll live by whatever rules you imply without realizing they're being obedient.

He is enchanted by the power of the law and by the infinite ways that the system can be manipulated to achieve any desired end.

The writer that you are, I guess you're used to being a kind of dictator, telling the characters in your stories what to do.

Because we have free will, our tomorrows are never determined until we make them day by day.

They said that man proposes, God disposes;