Quotes About Control

Nel mondo ha sempre regnato un ordine: sopra quelli che devono stare sopra e sotto quelli che devono stare sotto.

Every good communist should know that political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.

Every Communist must grasp the truth, 'Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.' Our principle is that the Communist Party commands the gun and the gun will never be allowed to command the Party.

Power grows from the barrel of a gun.

If a guy can successfully invade your space and get you to back down, he's won—he's alpha and you're beta.

What's amazing about this rule is that people don't even know consciously that it exists, yet it is the kingpin that keeps millions of people chained down. The rule is simple, and incredibly insidious: "Thou shalt not question the operating system thou art given!" What's weird is that you can rebel against the system, but you can't question it.

I don't hoard, exactly, but I get it. It's a response to our need and desire for purpose, order, definition, and a fortress. It's a calling that requires constant management, control, and obsessive attention.

with the newcomers in control of some areas and the pre-existing population in control of others.

Coenwulf dealt briskly with these challenges to his rule.

although he wielded supreme power over the whole island,

In his scheme, Mercia would not simply dominate neighbouring kingdoms; it would annex them,

Offa had demoted them to the rank of provincial governors.

Several of these plots involved gaining control of the young duke. William's father had taken the precaution of naming several guardians for his son, but one by one they were assassinated. Count

Cluny was created with the intention that it should be free from lay control, and was answerable only to the pope.

They took – or were granted by whoever was in charge

the bishop was indeed conducting himself like a second king.

Without Alfred directing their labours, none of this would have happened.

Tyrants tyrannize no doubt thanks to a host of little tyrants, who are tyrannized and no doubt tyrannize in turn.

Every woman feels that the greater her power over a man, the more impossible it is to leave him except by sudden flight: a fugitive precisely because a queen.

O ciúme nada mais é muitas vezes do que uma inquieta necessidade de tirania aplicada às coisas do amor.

And from that instant I did not have to take another step; the ground moved forward under my feet in that garden where for so long my actions had ceased to require any control, or even attention, from my will. Habit had come to take me in her arms and carry me all the way up to my bed like a little child.

Knowing a thing does not always mean preventing a thing, but at least the things we know, we hold, if not in our hands, at least in our minds where we can arrange them as we like, which gives us the illusion of a sort of power over them.