Quotes About Control

The opinion of the strongest is always the best.

The argument of the strongest is always the best.

By becoming emperor, I would once more put myself above my state.

Nu e de ajuns s? spui c? timpul domne?te asupra lumii: lumea e timpul.

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

The pimp has a grin, never a smile.

But we can't really do anything about what they say when we leave the room. We'll never be able to control that. And we shouldn't try. Our job is just to…well, be in the room while we're there, and try not to think too much about where we're not. Whatever room we happen to be in, just, be there

But we can't really do anything about what they say when we leave the room. We'll never be able to control that. And we shouldn't try. Our job is just to…well, be in the room while we're there, and try not to think too much about where we're not. Whatever room we happen to be in, just, be there," she finished lamely.

Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451,

Being guided is not being manipulated. Being exploited is.

Tyranny always starts auspiciously.

He knew now that corruption is inherent in power, and, even worse, stupidity!

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Have you ever noticed a certain type of man who always wants to go along with his wife to pick out her clothes? I've always thought that's because he wants to wear them himself. Truman Capote on Warhol

It is very difficult, when there are those people who want power over other people and will stop at nothing to get it: it is very difficult for all the people who don't want power, except just power over themselves, to find a way of resisting it.

Power is a corruption, and any society which operates from a power base is a corrupt society.

Let me tell you that male aggression is something we cannot afford to have unleashed upon the world a second time! Men cannot control their baser instincts. They have to be controlled for us. The power of the male is a force for evil, bringing destruction on the world.

Even if the law still existed, there wasn't going to be anyone around to enforce it.

Guns are like thermometers, only instead of measuring body temperatures they measure our fear.

There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion.

Beware of the anger of a patient man.

In the discourse of today's financial backers of research, the only credible goal is power. Scientists, technicians, and instruments are purchased not to find truth, but to augment power.

Postmodern science - by concerning itself with such things as undecidables, the limits of precise control, conflicts characterized by incomplete information, "fracta", catastrophes, and pragmatic paradoxes - is theorizing its own evolution as discontinuous, catastrophic, nonrectifiable, and paradoxical.

The machines compel and you move to their rhythm. Remember, you're a reactionary person.