Quotes About Control

marks around her neck. She tilted her head and smiled at me. I swallowed. I was never going to drink anything again. How could I pee with Christie around?

That to own things did not necessarily mean one belonged; that possession was no guarantee of control

An ideal feminist world would not be one in which abortions were free and common, but one in which women would have greater control over pregnancy, and in which the circumstances that make pregnancies unwanted, would have been transformed. Until then, in a hugely imperfect, unfair and sexist world, I believe feminists must defend women's access to legal and safe abortions, whenever they decide to have them, whatever the reason for their decision.

You must never forget that dealing with a monarch is not like dealing with an ordinary man," Ibn Sina said. "A king is not like you or me. He drops a hand carelessly and someone like us is put to death. Or he wiggles a finger and someone is allowed to live. That is absolute power, and no man born of woman is able to resist it. It drives even the best of monarchs slightly mad.

Why is it, Master," he asked bitterly, "that despite all a physician is able to do, he is as a leaf before the wind, and the real power lies only with Allah?

As substâncias eram imprevisíveis e difíceis de controlar, mas por vezes os cirurgiões conseguiam operar sem os tremores convulsivos e os gemidos e gritos de dor. As receitas pareciam-lhe mais magia do que medicina

I was an old man, the father of the vilified. Would this be my life from here on out? Was I to become the argumentative man who can't control the volume of his own voice? The conspiracy nut with boxes of data who spouts dates and facts, as if coincidence alone can prove the existence of God?

People in power fight to stay in power," says the Prophet. "This is the nature of power.

We are all victims of our brains. They tell us to do things and we do them. They tell us to believe things and we believe them. They hide our blind spots from us. All the while we believe we are making choices.

Everything is impermanent—every pleasure, every pain, every body. But the survival instincts crave permanence and control. The body wants pleasure to stay forever and pain to go away forever.

I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.

I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.

Advertising is tax deductible, so we all pay for the privilege of being manipulated and controlled.

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum....

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

The more you can increase fear of drugs, crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all of the people.

See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence.

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.

Anger is a futile emotion. The man who is angry loses more energy than his victim. So if you are angry you put yourself at a disadvantage.

You can't worry about what you can't control,

Financial discipline demands that you have a budget. Control your money. Do not let money control you. Discipline yourself to make sure that the flow of your money is gong in the right direction at all times.

She forgot the three F's," Julia whispered to Sara Moulton: "Feed 'em, fuck 'em, and flatter 'em.