Quotes About Control

She's using me. And I like it.

Even in my time, we knew that men were not in charge. Oh, they might bluster as if they were. But when it came down to it, we women bore much of the influence. Often, my father would make some grand pronouncement in the evening. And the next morning, he had changed his mind. After a while, I realized that it was my mother who had changed it, quietly, in the night.

She understood it wasn't an actual fear of flying so much as a fear of being without control, which was often the crux of most fears. If you had control over a situation, there was nothing to fear.

Bullies use various power tactics, such as spreading malicious gossip, excessive criticism, withholding resources or information, excluding a targeted person from the group, and other devious behaviors intended to undermine the confidence and performance of others. Bullies often take aggressive action against individuals in an effort to control and have power over them.

4 major factors contribute to recovery: Relaxation, Control, Mastery Experiences, and Mental Detachment from work.

Government is a system of morality developed by philosophers and refined by mercenaries.

The Newspeak word blackwhite] means a loyal willingness to say that black is white when Party discipline demands this. But it means also the ability to believe that black is white, and more, to know that black is white, and to forget that one has ever believed the contrary. This demands a continuous alteration of the past […][5] (George Orwell, 1984)

will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic.[130] (George Orwell, 1984)

Inhumanity is the keynote of stupidity in power.

You don't question the right of the government to kill, to confiscate and imprison. If a private person should be guilty of the things the government is doing all the time, you'd brand him a murderer, thief and scoundrel. But as long as the violence committed is "lawful," you approve of it and submit to it. So it is not really violence that you object to, but to people using violence "unlawfully.

The night is a wonderful country to rule.

And I would tell him, as we rise into the air, The curse is not that we cannot choose our Fates. The curse, the curse we all live under, is that we can.

she looked at me as if a horse had wandered into the hall, and in commanding it with her eyes, she could get it to return to its stable.

She said this watching my eyes as if she were testing the edge of a blade on me. And so I made sure not to flinch.

I was unsure how they fed themselves, what they would eat and drink, they were not unsure at all and this terrified me. I

As of now, I am in control here, in the White House, pending the return of the vice president and in close touch with him. If something came up, I would check with him, of course.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will.

Every power vested in a government is in its nature sovereign, and includes by force of the term a right to employ all the means requisite… to the attainment of the ends of such power.

In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will.

In the general course of human nature, a power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.

Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.