Quotes About Control

DROP THE GUN!" "DROP THE FREAKIN' GUN!" "PUT IT DOWN, I SWEAR TO GOD I'LL BLOW YOUR FOOL HEAD—" "—WHERE I CAN SEE THEM, PUT YOUR HANDS UP—" "—AND DON'T MOVE OR—" "—GROUND! ON THE GROUND, MOVE!

Dictators long ago found out it is easier to unite people in common hatred than common love.

Dictators long ago found that it is easier to unite people in common hatred than in common love.

I want you to listen to me carefully. I don't give a shit what the council says. You're here, you're mine, and nothing they say or do will change that. Period.

Lists comforted her - they gave her a sense of accomplishment - they meant she had control of something.

I like everything perfect. Everything has to be neat. My sister is 5, and she's more messy than I am. I make my bed every morning, everything's perfect. My shoes are all arranged. It's sad. I'm a little like Ray, a little bit.

The moment sex ceases to be a servant it becomes a tyrant.

Materialism is really our established church; for the Government will really help it to persecute the heretics.

The exception has become the rule, and that is the worst of all possible tyrannies.

Increasingly I perceived myself as being neither on the left nor the right but as believing in a distinct "third position," mistrustful of big government of whatever political hue, which I perceived in the Orwellian sense as being Big Brother, the crusher of freedom.

We have taken government and turned it into a surrogate parent, even a surrogate self, as we let regulation replace conscience. We

Everybody in the world is seeking happiness—and there is one sure way to find it. That is by controlling your thoughts. Happiness doesn't depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions.

When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness.

The principle is this: Ask yourself, "Is this my problem or not?" There are 3 types of business in the world: mine, your, and God's. We have to ask, "Whose business is it?". I had decided to make someone else's business and God's business my business. My control tendencies were often lurking beneath the surface.

What we truly want is the satisfaction of seeing our children become mature, self-reliant human beings, at any age, thinking for themselves, free and happy. Parents who want anything else are obsessed with control and not free and happy themselves.

You plan the wars you masters of men plan the wars and point the way and we will point the gun.

When one man says, "No, I won't," Rome begins to fear.

Now I hoard knowledge out of fear. I figure the more I know, the more I'll be able to control a situation and keep from getting hurt again.

Remember, my Jokers, a dropzone is like a woman. Land on her firmly, and make sure you have the vital parts located before you get going.' Hurtado Bronzi

Believe me, Harlon, in the length and breadth of this great Imperium of Man, there is no such thing as coincidence." - Gideon Ravenor

It takes a vast amount of self control to be this dangerous.

My psi-wave threw them all backwards violently, like the pressure blast of a hurricane. Windows shattered. They tumbled over, robes shredding, flying like dolls or desperately trying to grip onto the floor. Wystan lit a lho-stick. 'What I like about you,' he said, 'is that you don't muck around.' 'Thank you.

I could feel the bitter tang of his nausea rising, the wild disorientation of a mind and body spinning our of control. May the Emperor forgive me, it was delicious. Any extremes of physical experience, even the most unpleasant, are so alien to me that I cherish them.

A weapon doesn't question who it kills, or why. That isn't the point of weapons.