Quotes About Control

We are the slaves of slaves

Querer a los que tienen el poder es un instinto humano natural. El Maestro

Un acto de terror obliga a obedecer. Sin obediencia hay caos. Con obediencia llegan la paz y el orden. Primero obedecemos por temor. Después obedecemos por amor. Marius Semeon Ortiz

We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.

To say that you now trust the Russian military command and control system because some Russian general told you from the bottom of his heart that's the case, strikes me as most unrealistic.

Literature should not be surpressed merely because it affects the moral code of the censor.

The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military.

The future belongs to Science. More and more she will control the destinies of the nations. Already she has them in her crucible and on her balances.

Have a care therefore where there is more sail than ballast.

Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.

Those people who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed

No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.

Keep away. The sow is mine.

am speaking to the person inside of Regan now," the psychiatrist said firmly. "If you are there, you too are hypnotized and must answer all my questions." For a moment, he paused to allow the suggestion

Yes, whoa! The power of the mind controlled the blood flow. How? Who knows. But it happens. So in cases of stigmata—like the one with that prisoner I mentioned, or maybe even with Regan—the unconscious mind is controlling the differential of blood flow to the skin, sending more to

And inwardly raged at this portion of his being that so frequently rendered him helpless in the face of someone's plea; that he could not control; that lay coiled within him like a length of rope, always ready to fling itself out to rescue at the call of someone else's need. It gave him no peace. Not even in sleep.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Unlimited Power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it; and this I know, my lords, that where laws end, tyranny begins.

There is something behind the throne greater than the King himself.

It was like pulling the strings on a marionette. Huber and Puto found they could make the students want one beer or the other, just by adding a third choice that few or no one wanted.

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.

A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.