Quotes About Control

If you owe a hundred dollars, the bank has you in its power; but if you owe a million dollars, you have the bank in your power.

The working class are more numerous than the ruling class, and stronger. They depend on us for everything. We provide their food and build their houses and make their clothes, and without us they die. They can't do anything unless we let them.

El primer asunto que debían tratar cuando se iniciara la sesión esa tarde era la Ley de Habilitación, que permitiría que el gabinete de Hitler pudiera aprobar leyes sin el permiso del Reichstag.

meeting. "This nonsense must be stopped!" he said.

Quien controle Berlín controlará Alemania, y quien controle Alemania controlará Europa».

el mayor problema del comunismo era que el poder absoluto del partido siempre sofocaba el cambio. El

La característica más asombrosa del liderazgo soviético de los anteriores sesenta y cinco años era la negativa a afrontar los hechos.

The law makes no decisions. It has no will of its own. It's like a weapon, or a tool: it works for those who pick it up and use it.

Americans talked about voters the way Russians talked about Stalin: they had to be obeyed, right or wrong.

The arbitrary power of wicked men

El hombre que se jacta de conocer la voluntad de Dios y está dispuesto a cumplirla a toda costa es el hombre más peligroso del mundo».

No hay ninguna ley que afirme que

rapists aren't really interested in sex. What they enjoy is having power over a woman, and dominating her, and scaring her, and hurting her. He picked someone who looked as if she would be easily frightened.

Soms zou ik ook wel een opvliegend karakter willen hebben,' zei Philip. 'Dat houdt de mensen in beweging. Maar iedereen weet dat ik altijd redelijk ben, daarom word ik nooit zo snel gehoorzaamd als een prior die onverwachts woedend kan uitvallen.

The parents cannot sell what they do not own, namely the freedom of a grown man.

Um bebê era como uma revolução, pensou Grigori: você poderia até começar uma, mas era impossível controlar o que seria dela.

Erik was one of those inadequate people who were so scared by life that they preferred to live under harsh authority, to be told what to do and what to think by a government that allowed no dissent. They were foolish and dangerous, but there were an awful lot of them. Carla

Democracy is a terrible way to run a country, isn't it?" she said.

Un bebé era como una revolución, pensó Grigori: era posible iniciarla, pero no controlar qué derrotero tomaba. La

My fate is in the hands of two monarchs, Walter thought, the tsar and the emperor. One is foolish, the other geriatric; yet they control the destiny of Maud and me and countless millions more Europeans. What an argument against monarchy!

Este es nuestro país, y debemos tomar el control de él, tal y como han hecho los bolcheviques en Rusia

Sin embargo, un exceso de disciplina podía acabar con el pensamiento crítico.

My fate is in the hands of two monarchs, Walter thought, the tsar and the emperor. One is foolish, the other geriatric; yet they control the destiny of Maud and me and countless millions more Europeans. What an argument against monarchy! He

Existe um ditado que diz: se você deve 100 dólares, está na palma da mão do banco; mas, se deve um milhão, é o banco que está na palma da sua mão.