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Quotes About Control

Military police know what to do, they know the Geneva Conventions, and their objective is to provide a safe, secure, fair environment for prisoners under their control.
~ Janis Karpinski
Authority is never without hate.
~ Euripides
We must not think too much: people go mad if they think too much.
~ Euripides
Not too little, not too much: there safety lies.
~ Euripides
He loves power. A terrible love.
~ Euripides
Do we, holding that the gods exist, deceive ourselves with insubstantial dreams and lies, while random careless chance and change alone control the world?
~ Euripides
The mind of a queen Is a thing to fear. A queen is used To giving commands, not obeying them; And her rage once roused is hard to appease.
~ Euripides
power and alliance for them, slavery and conquest over us.
~ Euripides
SMRT:   Oho-ho! Otkud vi u sektoru? Å to se zadržavate, Apolone Febe, tu? Zar opet omalovažavate ingerencije donjih službi? Nije li dovoljan presedan bilo Admetovo izuze?e, odjel sudbine grubo izmanipuliran? Zar se sada, je li, okre?e vaÅ¡a oružana sila i u obranu predmetne žene koja je sama odlu?ila provesti zna?ajne izmjene u planu umiranja supruga?
~ Euripides
No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.
~ Euripides
A free man? - There is no such thing! All men are slaves; some, slaves to money; some, of chance; others are forced, either by mass opinion, or threatening law, to act against their nature.
~ Euripides
Master of the bow-string's deadly music!
~ Euripides
We cannot force Fortune against her will.
~ Euripides
Tanr? kimi yok etmek isterse, önce onun akl?n? al?r.
~ Euripides
To show too much joy in a place such as this would be unseemly but, as he padded toward her, his tail was extended in a manner which would make wagging possible should all go as expected.
~ Eva Ibbotson
Asking clients, 'Is there someone in your life making you afraid? or 'Controlling what you do or say?' promises an even more profound awakening than asking women about violence.
~ Evan Stark
That's your little mob in there,' said Grimes; 'you let them out at eleven.' 'But what am I to teach them?' said Paul in sudden panic. 'Oh, I shouldn't try to teach them anything, not just yet, anyway. Just keep them quiet.
~ Evelyn Waugh
the economy "is like a bird. You can't hold it in your hand but have to let it fly. But it might fly away, and that is why you need a cage to control it.
~ Ezra F. Vogel
First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
It is not life that's complicated, it's the struggle to guide and control life.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
All good writing is like swimming underwater and holding your breath.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Don't you know you can't do anything about people?
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Most of us are content to exist and breed and fight for the right to do both, and the dominant idea, the foredoomed attest to control one's destiny, is reserved for the fortunate or unfortunate few.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Either you think - or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald