Quotes About Control

Comme d'usage, le Dictateur se trompe.

It offends me that a man can master the Devil, but not the Portuguese language.

RenunÅ£area e libertate.A nu râvni nimic este putere.

Renunciation is freedom. Not wanting is power.

Alcuni amministrano il mondo, altri sono il mondo.

Whether or not they exist, we're slaves to the gods.

Government is based on two things: restraint and deceit.

Precisar de dominar os outros é precisar dos outros. O chefe é um dependente

El arte todo, toda la libertad, consiste en someter el espíritu lo menos posible, dejando al cuerpo que se someta a la voluntad.

Necesitar el dominio sobre los demás es necesitar de los demás. El jefe es un subalterno.

Ah, how I'd love to fall right from here Through a trapdoor—clack!—to my grave! Life tastes to me like mild tobacco. All I ever did was smoke life away. What I really want is faith and peace And to get these sensations under control. Put an end to this, God! Open the floodgates! Enough of this comedy in my soul!

To need to dominate others is to need others. The commander is dependent.

Necesitar el dominio sobre los demás es necesitar de los demás.

It's enough for me to want something for that thing to die. My destiny, however, is not powerful enough to prove deadly to just anything. It has the unfortunate disadvantage of being deadly only to those things I want.

Only the happy govern, because to be sad it is necessary to feel.

Crees tú que hay otro modo de acabar con esa locura que no sea el establecimiento de una autoridad a escala mundial con fuerza suficiente para disuadir a cualquier grupo de la afición a jugar a batallitas?

las religiones se hacen tolerantes cuando se debilitan, cuando pierden poder terrenal. Mientras controlan los hilos de la política y la economía y tienen un brazo secular para poder hacer cumplir sus preceptos, rara vez dan muestras de tolerancia. Este sentimiento aparece cuando los que controlan la práctica de una creencia tienen que ser aceptados, no cuando tienen que aceptar. Éste es un fenómeno que ocurre en casi todas las religiones.

Today you cannot talk about a United Nations system;… what actually exists is a domination system over nearly all countries in the world by a small group of powers under the aegis of the United States, determining all issues.

His plate was full but his fists sat motionless like two dark quartz stones on either side of it.

She could not make up her mind what would be inside his head and what out. She thought of her own head as a switchbox where she controlled from; but with him, she could only imagine the outside in, the whole black world in his head and his head bigger than the world, his head big enough to include the sky and planets and whatever was or had been or would be.

You can choose what you write but you can't choose what you make live.

The fact is that if the writer's attention is on producing a work of art, a work that is good in itself, he is going to take great pains to control every excess, everything that does not contribute to this central meaning and design. He cannot indulge in sentimentality, in propagandizing, or in pornography and create a work of art, for all these things are excesses. They call attention to themselves and distract from the work as a whole.

He don't know it's anything he can't know, the old man said. That's his trouble. He thinks if it's something he can't know then somebody smarter than him can tell him about it and he can know it just the same. And if you were to go there, the first thing he would do would be to test your head and tell you what you were thinking and howcome you were thinking it and what you ought to be thinking instead. And before long you wouldn't belong to your self no more, you would belong to him.

The freedom you feel when you're actually in control of your own music is fantastic.