Quotes About Control

Nicht nach Freiheit strebt der Verstand, sondern nach Unterwerfung. Die Wahrheit ist der Glanz der Notwendigkeit.

Where everyone believes he has a right to rule, everyone eventually prefers that one man alone rule. The tyrant frees each individual from the tyranny of his neighbor.

When the tyrant is the anonymous law, modern man believes he is free.

Anyone whose needs are small seems threatening to the rich, because he's always ready to escape their control.

Conscience is a dog that does not stop us from passing but that we cannot prevent from barking

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

I'll kill him. You're mine, Nicole—not some stupid mortal that can't even put out a fire. Next time I'll let him burn. And if you try anything stupid like you did tonight, I'll let you burn too.

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.

Our dear comrade Jiang Qing told us, 'Smash to pieces the security and law enforcement agencies.

One of the most ugly aspects of life in Communist China during the Mao Zedong era was the Party's demand that people inform on each other routinely and denounce each other during political campaigns. This practice had a profoundly destructive effect on human relationships. Husbands and wives became guarded with each other, and parents were alienated from their children.

He laid a hand on my arm and said calmly, with resignation, "Don't get excited and angry. It's useless to get angry with them. They have the last word always. If they say something happened, it happened. It's useless to resist. I've learned this from my personal experience.

Without an army, what can politicians achieve?

The issues the underground press raised have not been settled. In colder times they may have frosted over, but as long as individuals and groups seek to take control of their own lives the experiences of those times contain information that can and must be used.

Remember, it's not how fast you go in a Formula 1 car that injures or kills you – it is how quickly you stop.

How come there's only one Monopolies Commission?

You know in this moment that Gabriel is at your mercy, you can do what you want, he is completely yours and with the knowledge of that something goes,you can feel it slip from you like a fish through the net.

He'll never do it again,' she swears, but he will because she'll let him. Now me? I've got no use for imitation love that packs a punch.

Shut the f@@k up

You can do anything and smash anything in the world with a kopeck.

I brought you into this world. It is on me to take it away.

SILENCE you miserable cretins!

We have distant democracy, well suited to a distant penocracy, well suited to serve a large-scale society using taximeters to control the price of all acts.

Maybe law is closer related to art than most of us are aware of. But art and power do often stand in a strained relationship.

They've worked the absolute-power-corrupts-absolutely truth since the beginning of time. They foment destruction and chaos. It puts them in their happy place.