Quotes About Control

Whoever then would be free, let him wish for nothing, let him decline nothing, which depends on others; else he must necessarily be a slave.

just programmed into the bomb's guidance system. "Hey!" the copilot told the Delta operator. "We don't

The library is not, as some would have it, a place for the retiring of disposition or faint of heart. It is not an ivory tower or a quiet room in a sanitarium facing away from the afternoon sun. It is, rather, a command center, a power base. A board room, a war room. An Oval Office for all who preside over their own destinies. One does not retreat from the world here; one prepares to join it at an advantage.

Give a man a hoe and he is something to exploit. Give him a book and he is something to fear.

ce vase, devenant désirable, était devenu mon maître; et à l'instant même où il s'était brisé, il avait encore assuré sa domination sur moi, puisqu'il s'était emparé de mes émotions. Il m'appartenait, je lui appartenais plus encore. [L'invisible-1] Milarepa

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from local than national authority.

In June 1793 sixty of the eighty departments of France were in revolt against Paris; the armies of the German princes were invading France from the north and east; the British attacked from the south and west; the country was helpless and bankrupt. Fourteen months later all France was under firm control, the invaders had been expelled, the French armies in turn occupied Belgium and were about to enter on twenty years of almost unbroken and effortless military triumph.

Es cierto que los imperios se han construido a menudo con la ayuda de las armas, pero las armas no bastan para mantener el orden, como nos lo recuerda un viejo dicho que se remonta a los tiempos napoleónicos: «Puedes hacer lo que quieras con una bayoneta, salvo sentarte en ella».

A ruling intelligentsia, whether in Europe, Asia or Africa, treats the masses as raw material to be experimented on, processed, and wasted at will.

The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others.

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power

The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.

All through the ages schoolmasters seem to have had the delusion that they could order society as readily as they could a classroom.

With the coming of automation it may eventually be possible for a ruling intelligentsia to operate a country's economy without the aid of the masses, and it is legitimate to speculate on what the intellectual may be tempted to do with the masses once they become superfluous.

Pocas cosas hay más peligrosas que un imperio que persigue su propio interés con la creencia de que le está haciendo un favor a la humanidad.

But sometimes living in denial was the only way to keep a man from going on a killing spree.

fear is weakness uncontrolled!

Keep a woman broke, keep her under control. Give her just enough to get by. She won't starve to death, but she'll never be able to afford to leave. That's from the handbook on how to be a pimp.

I'm the sum of all of my experiences. I'm the culmination of a series of events that have allowed me to arrive at this moment. Even, quite possibly, driven me to this moment. I have controlled some, but most have led me. There is no other identical to what I have become. None. I am me.

He made himself comfortable on his back and I climbed him, straddled his face . . . and leaned toward the headboard so I could keep my balance and stay in control, so I wouldn't fall on his nose.

The gun was in Mrs. Jones's left hand. She put her right hand behind her, between my legs, then held on to my cock like it was a leash.

Wisdom was knowing what to do. Skill was the ability to do it.Virtue was doing it. When wisdom didn't subdue anger, anger destroyed everything.

If only one thing had happened differently—but life, being what it is—a series of intersecting lives and incidents, out of anyone's control.