Quotes About Control

Tyrants seldom want pretexts

Those despotic governments which are founded on the passions of men, and principally upon the passion of fear, keep their chief as much as may be from the public eye. The policy has been the same in many cases of religion.

Just because we cannot stop all the large leaks, that is no reason why we should open up all the little ones." T. Roosevelt

If he was less motivated by compassion than anger at what he saw as the arrogance of capital,he chafed,nonetheless,to regulate it.

Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere.

Yet New York is always the chef, never the diner. Being

What if I can't get it up?" Guy wailed. "That's of no importance if you're on the right end of a whip.

I wanted power so badly that I had convinced myself I already had too much of it, that I was an evil schemer who might destroy everyone around me through the poison seeping out of my pores. I was appalled by my own majesty. I wanted someone to betray.

If the baron is a masochist himself, then why would he attract another masochist? I suppose he wants someone cute to attract other sadists.

her husband a grown man, afraid to sleep alone in his own house, he who for many a year struck terror into her and Eleanora.

Your brother says he will sever all ties with us unless we do as he asks and sign Rusheen over to him.

Two or three people had gone to Limerick and bought 'The Country Girls.' The parish priest asked them to hand in the books, which they did, and he burnt them on the grounds of the church.

Everything hinged on money

A work is completed without deference to a husband, an absurd epic of maudlin childhood is about to be sent to a pimp, before a husband is allowed to correct it," he said seething. "You would only tinker with it," she said fearless, though fearing.

I was constantly amazed by how many people talked me into arresting them.

That wasn't a mistake, was 'a fully justified venture which, for reasons beyond your control, did not work

In an atomic pile an explosion is prevented by inserting rods of cadmium, which mop up the particles that are shooting around. In this way the energy in the pile is controlled. If there are too many rods, the chain reaction stops and the pile can no longer produce any energy. People who are unable to appreciate new ideas are like the rods: some of them are necessary to prevent a destructive explosion, but too many make it impossible for the pile to produce any energy.

They soon experienced, that those who refuse the sword must renounce the sceptre. 

Fire is the most powerful agent of life and death: the rapid mischief may be kindled and propagated by the industry or negligence of mankind;

subdue the wild beast, which, according to the lively metaphor of Aristotle, [48] seldom fails to ascend the throne of a despot.

For what fortress, (added Attila,) what city, in the wide extent of the Roman empire, can hope to exist, secure and impregnable, if it is our pleasure that it should be erased from the earth?

Oh Lord, we thank Thee for this thy gift of lobster Newburg. And grant us also, if it be Thy will, control of the Hudson Ohio Railroad.' 'But we ain't wanting control of the Hudson Ohio, Sean softly objected. 'True,' said Gabriel Love, 'but the Almighty doesn't need to know that yet.

She tried to walk more slowly up the hill. God, her mind was racing, racing in neutral

If we can't control our conscious responses, what chance do we have against the influences we haven't recognized?