Quotes About Control

Southern whites vented their outrage and asserted their control in a new arena, inflicting a reign of violence on the Reconstruction South and once again bullying their way to power, using terrorism and Black Codes to assert white supremacy.

The sick are all so afraid of their own uncontrollable power! Somehow they cannot believe that they are only people, holding only a human-sized anger!

A thing named is a thing tamed.

Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion

If white men could have a playground, this would be it.

You'd be good at being angry," he said. "You'd get it right.

Power makes all things right. That is my first law, and my last. That is the only law that I acknowledge.

The goal of government, you see," and the Arch Lector prodded at the air with his bony forefinger, "is to load the unhappiness onto those least able to make you suffer for it.

Very well, Practical Vitari, if you really can't resist me. You'll have to go on top, though, if you don't mind.

Government is tyranny. At its best it is dressed in pretty colours.

Any man can do what he likes. Right, Splitfoot?' 'Right, Chief.' 'Just as long as it's exactly what I fucking tell 'em to do.

Apologise to my fucking dice!

A man without discipline is no better than a dog. A soldier without discipline is no better than a corpse. Worse, in fact. A corpse is no threat to his comrades.

Why?' she hissed. Why indeed? 'I give you orders,' he barked, 'not fucking reasons!

If you could kill a man by frowning at his back, the Breaker of Swords would have fallen bloody through the Last Door that day, but a frown is no blade, and Thorn's hatred cut no one but her.

The fear of the drugs running out is managable-the fear of time running down isn't.

the only reason for time is so everything doesn't happen at

if it was your fault, then you weren't powerless--you weren't at the mercy of stuff just happening." "Your always going to be at thee mercy of stuff just happening, no matter what.

The act of driving the car made him feel he was a powerful being who could conquer the world. Up over hills, fast down on the other side. It was like playing god and commanding everything within hearing to awaken and listen to him. The people sleeping in the white farmhouses were at the mercy of the sound of his engine roaring past in the night.

It is sheer folly to try to control the destiny of another human. But you had to know that while you were young and strong, while life bubbled through you.

Well, you know, too much democracy is a sort of sad thing.

And, like all the others, I have been manipulated to suit Ted's needs. I don't feel particularly embarrassed or resentful about that. I was one of many, all of us intelligent, compassionate people who had no real comprehension of what possessed him, what drove him obsessively.

Choices are like dominoes, one tumbling against the next and then the next until events go out of human control.

Even though many of us are working very hard at it, we rarely, if ever, experience the joy and peace that are promised in the Bible. So what's the problem? Perhaps we are still holding the reins of our lives too tightly, afraid to surrender ourselves to God's Spirit.