Quotes About Control

This is one of the reasons for bigotry and censorship of all kinds over personal morality: people fear that the standard morality will be undermined—another way of saying that they fear they will no longer be able to control life and death.

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first." WILLIAM JAMES

If we don't have the omnipotence of gods, we at least can destroy like the gods.

Probably, if most of us had our way, we would try to maximize the predictability of everyone else, while leaving ourselves free to inject novelty into our relationships. Only this kind of power would give us complete safety and control. But it would also be dull.

The basic motivation for human behavior is our biological need to control our basic anxiety, to deny the terror of death.

men worship and fear power and so give their loyalty to those who dispense it.

Hunger is good discipline.

We think. We are not peasants. We are mechanics. But even the peasants know better than to believe in a war. Everybody hates war. There is a class that control a country that is stupid and down not realise anything and never can. That is why we have this war. Also they make money out of it.

It is the fault of the orders, which are too rigid. There is no allowance for a change in circumstance.

I must hold his pain where it is, he thought. Mine does not matter. I can control mine. But his pain could drive him mad.

I must hold his pain where it is, he thought. Mine does not matter. I can control mine. But his pain could drive him mad. After

Discipline must come from trust and confidence.

I suppose you start to destroy it for fear you will lose it, or that it will take too great a hold on you, or in case it shouldn't be true, but it is not very good to do.

Margot was too beautiful for Macomber to divorce her and Macomber had too much money for Margot ever to leave him.

They had a sound basis of union. Margot was too beautiful for Macomber to divorce her and Macomber had too much money for Margot ever to leave him.

Muck everybody but the people and then be damned careful what they turn into when they have power.

Strašna je ova ribetina, moram je obuzdati, pomisli. Ne smijem joj dopustiti da postane svjesna svoje snage ni onoga što bi mogla u?initi kad bi potegnula svom snagom. Da sam na njezinu mjestu, sad bih zapeo iz sve snage i povukao pa kud puklo da puklo. Ali one, hvala Bogu, nisu tako pametne ko mi koji ih ubijama, iako su plemenitije i sposobnije od nas.

must hold his pain where it is, he thought. Mine does not matter. I can control mine. But his pain could drive him mad. After

I must never let him learn his strength nor what he could do if he made his run.

He is a great fish and I must convince him, he thought. I must never let him learn his strength nor what he could do if he made his run. If I were him I would put in everything now and go until something broke. But, thank God, they are not as intelligent as we who kill them; although they are more noble and able.

Non devo fargli aumentare il dolore, pensò. Il mio non importa. Posso controllarlo. Ma il suo dolore può farlo diventare matto.

Direi só o que tu desejares que eu diga e só farei o que tu desejares que euu faça, e tu unca quererás outra, pois não? --------------------- Catherine em O Adeus Às Armas Ernest Hemingway

it is much easier to be the opposition to a government than to run the government yourself.

I didn't want to show it. Because if what he was saying was true, there wasn't a thing I could do about it. Marshall was too big. If it was just Bonbon who wanted to hurt Marcus, you might be able to prevent that. Bonbon was nothing but a poor white man, and sometimes you could go to the rich white man for help. But where did you go when it was the rich white man? You couldn't even go to the law, because he was the law. He was police, he was judge, he was jury.