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Quotes About Control

he was a sort of dully furious Soviet bureaucrat, a petty man used to giving orders and being obeyed.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
in certain senses the transnationals were expressions of these nations—extensions of their power into the rest of the world, in a way that reminded Sax of what little he knew of the imperial and colonial systems that had preceded them. Frank had said something like that: colonialism had never died, he used to declare, it just changed names and hired local cops. We're all colonies of the transnats.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
They were so ignorant! Young men and women, educated very carefully to be apolitical, to be technicians who thought they disliked politics, making them putty in the hands of their rulers, just like always.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
policymakers think a world police state for a few decades or so
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Wherever there's a commons there's enclosure. And enclosure always wins.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
The state monopoly on violence had probably been a good idea while it lasted, but no one could believe it would ever come back.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
If one percent of the humans alive controlled everyone's work, and took far more than their share of the benefits of that work, while also blocking the project of equality and sustainability however they could, that project would become more difficult. This would go without saying, except that it needs saying.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
as Serena thought back on their overall relationship, she couldn't deny how obsessive and protective he had been when it came to his smartphone.
~ Kimberla Lawson Roby
I don't allow people of your sort to stand in my way. That's what you're leaving out of account. I'm having Christine because it's my right. Do you understand that? If I'm after something, I don't care what I do to make sure that I get it. That's the only law I abide by; it's the only was to get things in this world...With me you just haven't a hope in hell.
~ Kingsley Amis
In it {a film Peter saw} a sadistic sergeant broke the spirit of soldier in a military prison by beating him up at systematically random intervals, from more than a day down to a quarter of an hour, so that the victim never knew when the next attack was coming, never felt safe. Life with Muriel, it seemed to Peter, had over the last seven or eight years turned into a decreasingly bearable version of that.
~ Kingsley Amis
The mind must have the final say and sway over the body and not the other way round
~ Kiran Nagarkar
İnsanl?k sen ne eÅŸeksin! İsteyen seni istediÄŸi yere güder.
~ Knut Hamsun
Soll der Direktor ruhig in seinem Jugendstil-Haus wohnen, ihm schadet das nichts - ihm nicht. Er ist ein moderner Mensch und immun; seine tiefste Sehnsucht wird dadurch befriedigt, daß er auf Knöpfe drücken und an Hähnen drehen darf.
~ Knut Hamsun
From the day in May when my ill-luck began I could so clearly notice my gradually increasing debility; I had become, as it were, too languid to control or lead myself whither I would go. A swarm of tiny noxious animals had bored a way into my inner man and hollowed me out.
~ Knut Hamsun
La locura se apodera rabiosa de mi cerebro y yo se lo permito, soy muy consciente de que estoy sometido a influencias sobre las que no tengo ningún control
~ Knut Hamsun
I had become, as it were, too languid to control or lead myself whither I would go. A swarm of tiny noxious animals had bored a way into my inner man and hollowed me out.
~ Knut Hamsun Hamsun
Well maybe we need to Cesar Millan their asses and show them who's boss. Tsst, tsst!
~ Kresley Cole
When I get free, I believe I'll show you your spine. I'll hand it to you so casually, politely even, as if expecting you to remark upon it.
~ Kresley Cole
Oh my gods, when do you not sport wood? There are bathrooms in the back, so go burp the worm or whatever.--Regin
~ Kresley Cole
Why am I letting you comfort me?" He stared over her head. Because I've made sure you have no one else to turn to.
~ Kresley Cole
She murmured, You're unfinished. Aye, precisely. I need to go. When she moved to get up, he shoved her against his side and slapped her arse to keep her there. You stay with me. She snapped, What do you want from me, Chase? He drew his head back in confusion. I want everything. You're mine , Regin.
~ Kresley Cole
Wroth! Don't do this!" "Five years of hell," he sneered, palming her ass roughly. "You deserve to be fucked till you can't walk.
~ Kresley Cole
Declan and Regin: Kiss you ? As he waited for the revulsion to seize him, he found himself wondering how she would react. Would she moan into his mouth? It will help you remember me. Kiss me. Come on, you know you want to so bad. You want me so bad. Never. Bloody get off her, get away from her . But he needed to be above her like this, to master her, overpower her. Never? That boner of yours just called you a lair.
~ Kresley Cole
I give you a week, maybe two, before you're driven to bite someone. I don't know how to... to bite or drink! But you could teach me. And what could you possibly do in return? Lothaire waved a negligent hand. Play football for me? Break in my jeans really well?
~ Kresley Cole