Quotes About Control

I'll take care of that." Merrick bent and pinched Sarah's chin. "You say anything to anybody about me being in this room with Cleo, and I'll cut your little pink tongue out. Understand?" Sarah believed him, and nodded her head. He smiled slightly and let her go. She darted to the corner and crouched there, trembling and feeling sick. "See?" Merrick crowed gleefully. "Nothing to worry about. She won't say a word about us to anyone.

Money is a great servant but a bad master.

Only the previous day, Arch had found him in a spirit-dance corral, blistering the creatures to the point of death, such was his need to touch and destroy.

The black, hungry roses that Redd sent snaking towards the princess were easily squashed, the orbs and and unmanned, airborne blades of effortlessly waved off, and the spears of black energy (Alyss was flattered, her aunt borrowing this idea from her) pinned motionless to the air by Alyss's own white spears with no trouble.

I am more powerful than that disgustingly well-intenioned niece of mine! --Redd Heart

Alpha sets the scale of nature -- the size of atoms and all things made of them, the intensity and colors of light, the strength of magnetism, and the metabolic rate of life itself. It controls everything that we see. ... In 137, apparently, science had found Nature's PIN Code.

I'm angry. I just don't give in to it." He sipped his tea and then put it down. "Stuff happens all the time. What'd you call it? Outrageous. Outrageous stuff make you so mad you can just burn yourself up with it. You got to decide if the mad runs you, or you run the mad.

Give as few orders as possible, his father had told him once long ago. Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject.

They are not mad. They're trained to believe, not to know. Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.

When I am Weaker Thn You, I ask you for Freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am Stronger than you, I take away your Freedom Because that is according to my principles.

But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.

Reason is the first victim of strong emotion, Scytale murmured.

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim.

The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it.

Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?

Emotions are the curse of logic.

Growth is limited by the necessity which is present in the least amount. And naturally, the least favorable condition controls the growth rate

The problem of leadership is inevitably: Who will play God? Muad'Dib

Small souls who seek power over others first destroy the faith those others might have in themselves.

We've lost something vital, I tell you. When we lost it, we lost the ability to make good decisions. We fall upon decisions these days the way we fall upon an enemy—or wait and wait, which is a form of giving up, and we allow the decisions of others to move us. Have we forgotten that we were the ones who set this current flowing?

motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.

To use raw power is to make yourself infinitely vulnerable to greater powers.