Quotes About Control

I won her over the same way I hunted - loping after the fawn I wanted to eat, never in a hurry, making it a game, tiring her out, nipping at her heels playfully until eventually she almost wanted me to break her neck and open her up like a purse.

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. Those who use it and those who endure it are turned to stone… a soul which has entered the province of force will not escape this except by a miracle.

disse Serena.

Yet just as the sailors were active on the ship (though the wind, not the sailors, ultimately controlled the ship's movement), so the human authors were active in writing as the Spirit directed.

Paranoia is sometimes the best way a person can handle situations in life.

Government is not a solution to our problem government is the problem.

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!

People don't start wars, governments do.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty

Estamos caminhando para o socialismo, um sistema que, como se diz, só funciona no Céu, onde não precisam dele, e no Inferno, onde ele já existe.

Liberty has never come from government," Woodrow Wilson, one of FDR's predecessors and another Democrat, said. "The history of liberty is the history of limitation of government's power, not the increase of it.

As smart as he was, though, I suspect even FDR didn't realize that once you created a bureaucracy, it took on a life of its own. It was almost impossible to close down a bureaucracy once it had been created.

No government has ever voluntarily reduced itself in size—and that, in a way, became my theme.

Use your imagination, I tell my students these days, or someone else is going to use it for you.

Destroying the systems destroys the chaos.

Son mañosas las palabras, y rebeldes, y huidizas. No les gusta ser domesticadas. Domar una palabra (convertirla en un tópico) es acabar con ella.

El miedo es un parásito, un invasor.

todo poder lleva en sí mismo el ansia de perpetuarse, la tentación de lo absoluto.

Los sacerdotes hicimos un pasado a nuestra medida y reescribimos la Historia del mundo. Conscientes de que el saber es la llave del poder, nos apropiamos de los conocimientos existentes. Los adelantos técnicos, los logros de nuestros antepasados, pasaron a ser patrimonio secreto y privado.

Ahí reside nuestra grandeza: aun conociendo nuestra insignificancia, aspiramos al máximo. Lo que nos humaniza, lo que nos diferencia de los animales, es precisamente esa desfachatada ambición de ser felices. De controlar nuestras vidas y convertirnos en nuestros propios dioses.

Porque cada cual es dueño de su destino... o al menos debe actuar como si lo fuera.

Virginity came in with a vengeance as every budding patriarch suddenly realized his divine right to a vacuum-sealed, factory-fresh vagina with built-in hymenal gift-wrapping and purity guarantee.

All so-called laws of God express in reality the will of man.

Within the face, woman concealed one of her most potent and treacherous weapons, her tongue.