Quotes About Control

With all production, employment, and distribution of output completely under the monopoly control of the State, the fate and fortune of every individual would be at the mercy of the political authority.

Every socialist is a disguised dictator.

Nobody ever recommended a dictatorship aiming at ends other than those he himself approved. He who advocates dictatorship always advocates the unrestricted rule of his own will

Every step which leads from capitalism toward planning is necessarily a step nearer to absolutism and dictatorship.

We don't know what reality is," Rayanne says. "We just pretend we do, because it makes us feel like we're in control.

The highest ranking wolf in the pack isn't the one that uses brute force. It's the one who can, and chooses not to.

In books, you always know what's coming next. There are no surprises.

Success would come only at the expense of losing her cool, at the risk of turning into someone she did not want to be.

Don't think you have to discuss the illness. Sometimes, a sick person needs a break. And if you ask up front if he wants to talk about how he feels-- or doesn't-- you're giving him control at a time when he doesn't have a lot of choices.

You may not be able to choose your reality. But you can change it.

The catch was this: Power always involved loss of humanity.

Louie believed that those white men with their signs and slogans were not really there for the unborn, but there for the women who carried them. They couldn't control women's sexual independence. To them, this was the next best thing.

You know, if you monitored the humidity a little better in here, you might reduce the irritants.' 'I assume you're referring to the mites, and not the lawyers.

It's funny how when you are dying, you still fight for the upper hand. You want to pick the terms; you want to choose the date. You'll tell yourself anything you have to, to pretend that you're still the one in control.

If you knew you were going to die, wasn't it better to choose the time and place, instead of waiting for fate to drop on you like an anvil?

I thought I knew this world. I thought I could control it. But just when you think you've got your life by the reins, that's when it's most likely to run away from you.

Maybe it was because I wanted to control one part of me that had been uncontrollable, so the rest of me would fall into line.

The reason you hold on to someone too tightly isn't always to protect them—sometimes it's to protect yourself.

whatever does happen the way it's supposed to? You don't plan life, you just do it.

Sometimes I think there's a beast that lives inside me, in the cavern that's where my heart should be, and every now and then it fills every last inch of my skin, so that I can't help but do something inappropriate.

Any smidgen of emotion revealed would crack the careful mask of control and leave the person in pieces.

My husband hogs the remote," Shayla says. "He says it's because women control everything else." "Actually, it's instinct," Stuart says. "The part of the brain that's territorial is bigger in men than it is in women. I heard it on John Tesh.

Given anything negative or uncertain, there were rules that had to be followed.

Il fuoco è bello da vedere. Mentre brucia, ipnotizza lo sguardo. Se riesci a contenerlo, ti fa luce e ti riscalda. Soltanto se ne perdi il controllo devi passare alla controffensiva.