Quotes About Control

Death is softer by far than tyranny.

But the lust for power never dies- men cannot have enough. No one will lift a hand to send it from his door, to give it warning, 'Power, never come again!

We should know what is true before we break our rage.

Death is a softer thing by far than tyranny.

Excessive fear is always powerless.

Zeus'tan baÅŸkas? özgür deÄŸildir.

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.

Every thing has been achieved except for the gods to rule; for no one is free save Jupiter.

It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters.

The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant

You can ruin anything if you focus at it.

Don't smile," he said.

Elvis Presley's manager, Colonel Parker, made a deliberate attempt to restrict the number of appearances and records the King made. As a result, every time Elvis appeared, it was an event of enormous impact. (Elvis himself contributed to this strategy by overdosing early and severely dampening his future appearances. Likewise Marilyn Monroe and James Dean.)

Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.

Maturity: knowing where you're crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control.

Then, in a further challenge to reality and because of the way she felt towards them, Chloe would (with the grin of a six-year-old child facing the power of its hostile impulses) tell her parents she could kill them by shutting her eyes and never thinking of them again - a plan which no doubt elicit a profoundly unphilosophical response from the parents.

You can tell a paragraph is slipping out of control when there's a runaway use of the word 'hence.

Science should matter to us not only because it helps us to control parts of the world, but also because is shows us things that we will -never- master. [...] Nightly - perhaps after the main news bulletin and before the celebrity quiz - we might observe a moment of silence in order to contemplate the 200 to 400 billion stars in our galaxies and the 3 septillion stars in the universe. [...] majestically unaware of everything we are and consolingly unaffected by all that tears us apart.

the playthings of the forces that laid out the

the disciplined and sedated authority of the scientist entrusted with the safe management of unfeasible rage

Tragedies remind us how badly we need to keep controlling ourselves by showing us what happens when people don

The only problem with unrestricted choice, however, is that it tends not to lie so far from outright chaos.

He's not secretive, controlling, or withdrawn for malicious reasons; he just gives up on other people—and on his ability to persuade them of anything—with unhelpful ease.