Quotes About Control

it is much the same, I daresay, wherever and whenever men desire power and the use of power on others.

But people do not always want peace as much as they want their own way.

Slaveowners in America were torturing the Africans they enslaved for reading, but the British had discovered the hard way of truth of the maxim - Nature abhors a vacuum. Fill their minds with your stories and they will adore you; leave their minds free to roam and they will hatch plans to destroy you (181).

Men are so easy to manipulate, poor things.

I knew the answer, and--of course--so did Ramses. He has superb breath control and always gets in ahead of me.

The woman has a beak,' he thought, standing red and tongue-tied before her. 'She's a bird of prey. She has got her talons into my Catherine. Linked together! Good God.

But he does insist on a conversation. Goddamn it! Why can't people just do what I want them to do and be gone? It's a worldwide conspiracy to make me be polite when I don't want to be.

Doing nothing is opting for the sweetness of stillness...Instead of fighting with that which you cannot control, you might as well just see it through...

motherhood must be like that. it is probably the only experience most women ever have of ownership and domination.

For girls who've been pressured into sex they didn't want, growing into a woman's body can be terrifying. Anorexia and bulimia can be an attempt to say no, to assert control over their changing bodies. Compulsive overeating is another way.

I could make it not matter.

Look you not throw your music after pride: it's a rude servant, but a cruel master.

The therapist could not budge the patient from her syllogism. She replayed it throughout the hour, 'stuck in a single organization of events.' Seeing it from the other side (from behind the wall, as an observer), I understood the obsessive quality of such an attachment, something comforting in holding on to a smug, all-seeing knowledge, even a sad or hurtful one; something that let the patient control the precise amount of pain she administered to herself.

Women want to own a man, and that grows irksome.

magisterially

Your ability to influence others depends on how well you lead yourself.

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.

Power beyond reason created a lasting irrationality.

Law was always made by the few and in general for the purpose of preserving the "existing order," or for the reestablishment of the old order and the punishment of the offenders against

Why not? Because humans through their time-binding capacity are first of all creators and so their number is not controlled by the supply of unaided nature, but only by men's artificial productivity, which is the materialization of their time-binding capacity

We ought to be making North some now," he said with the utmost restraint.

For man is man and master of his fate.

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.