Quotes About Control

Most Gods don't care. About anything. Other than gaining dominance over other Gods and telling you how wonderful they are and demanding that you say the same. There's nothing like a bunch of Gods to show you how alone you really are.

If a crowd can flinch, they flinch. More than a thousand men flinch under the fist of just one. I don't see what the women do.

It's not that you should never love something so much it can control you. It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled.

If the infeckshun from the band takes Viola," I say, "you'll beg me to kill you after what I'll do to you." "I believe you," says the Mayor.

Hmm," Mistress Coyle hmms.

The Mayor's wrong- He's wrong forever and ever- It's not that you should never love something so much it can control you. It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled.

It has nothing to do with not trusting you. It's to do with what something becomes once you tell it. It's like it's truer. And it's got a life of its own and it rushes out into the world and becomes something you can't control.

I will never let go of this knife, no matter what she says, no matter how she says it. She

This planet is information' the Mayor says. 'All the time, never-ceasing. Information it wants to give you, information it wants to take from you to share with everyone else. And I think you can respond to that in two ways. You can control how much you give it, like you an I have done [...]' 'Or you can open yourself to it completely,; I say.

People say they want freedom, but what they really want is freedom from worry. If I take care of their problems, they don't mind being told what to do.

I turn back to the man. Back to Ben. He is mine, I think. If there is peace, he is mine. Mine to kill.

You have let your devil get away from you." He looked genuinely confused. "To what other purpose is a devil?

I wanted him to do it, I wanted it to happen- And it did. I controlled him. Just like the Mayor. I watch him go, still walking to the food store, like it was his own idea. My hands are shaking. Bloody hell.

I look at the knife again, sitting there on the moss like a thing without properties, a thing made of metal as separate from a boy as can be, a thing which casts all blame from itself to the boy who uses it.

War makes monsters of men, you once said to me, Todd. Well, so does too much knowledge. Too much knowledge of your fellow man, too much knowledge of his weakness, his pathetic greed and vanity, and how laughably easy it is to control him.

Except cleaner. And bossier.

Stories are wild creatures, the monster said. When you let them loose, who knows what havoc they might wreak?

A man without a filter, is chaos walking

It's not that you should never love something so much it can control you. It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled. It's not a weakness– It's your best strength

Your stomach isn't the boss of you,' Mel says evenly. 'Oh,' Jared says, realizing. 'Sorry-' Mel shakes her head, brushing it off. 'Not what I meant. Your heart isn't the boss of you other. Thinks it is. Isn't. You can always choose. Always.' 'You can't choose not to feel,' Henna says. 'But you can choose how to act.

You just got days, it seemed to her. Where stuff happened or it didn't. Where planning just showed you what a fool you were to think you had any say over what your life would be.

I thought I could organise freedom. How Scandinavian of me. –Björk

When you predict the future, when you do so strongly and you cling to it, how much of the future do you then cause to happen?

I am opposed to authority, that egg of misery and oppression; I am opposed to it largely for what it does to those who exercise it.