Quotes About Control

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

The tongue may be an unruly member-- But silence poisons the soul.

Liberty depends on self-restraint. Freedom is freedom only when controlled and limited.

She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.

Good order is the foundation of all things.

The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man's pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

No power so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

The mad can make their own laws.

The public is practically unaware of the overwhelming responsibility carried by the Vatican and its Jesuits in the start of the two world wars—a situation which may be explained in part by the gigantic finances at the disposition of the Vatican and its Jesuits, giving them power in so many spheres, especially since the last conflict.

Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small.

A placated bully is a hand-fed bully.

Of thy word unspoken thou art master; thy spoken word is master of thee.

But on second thought, after I decreed the state of emergency, I came to the conclusion that that was impossible to achieve without bloodshed because the street protesters were full of anger and nearly out of control. This is why I thought we needed to find another way out.

Y como Rita no es tonta aplica aquella de más vale cabeza de ratón que cola de león, y en consecuencia cría éste ratón en el que las empleadas y sus sobrinas somos un cuerpo más o menos obediente o, por lo menos, susceptibles a sus censura.

Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder.

The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature.

If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. Only the police, the secret police, the military, the hired servants of our rulers. Only the government --and a few outlaws. I intend to be among the outlaws

There is no situation so bad that the cops can't make it worse.

Guns don't kill people; people kill people. Of course, people with guns kill more people. But that's only natural. It's hard. But it's fair.

Money attracts because it gives us the means to command the labor and service and finally the lives of others--human or otherwise.

Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers-- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.