Quotes About Control

For Rebecca, the world was not a dangerous place spinning rapidly out of control; it was a problem to be managed by men and women of competence and training.

We will control the land of the Vatican. We will control Rome and introduce Islam in it. —SHEIKH MUHAMMAD BIN ABD AL-RAHMAN AL-ARIFI, Imam of the mosque at the King Fahd Defense Academy

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Thugs the world over loved nothing more than to look down on their vassals from a balcony.

The best way to win at a game of chance is to remove chance from the equation.

In one study, researchers gave elderly residents of a local nursing home a houseplant. They told half the residents that they were in control of the plant's care and feeding (high-control group), and they told the remaining residents that a staff person would take responsibility for the plant's well-being (low-control group).41 Six months later, 30 percent of the residents in the low-control group had died, compared with only 15 percent of the residents in the high-control group.

Magic is dangerous: it's neither good nor bad, right nor wrong; it can be both a blessing and a curse. It takes strength, the strength of a man, to make the magic his own, to make it serve him, and not the other way around.

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.

Every man's life, liberty, and property are in danger when the Legislature is in session.

Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.

Mind is the great lever of all things.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may

Good intentions will always be pleaded for any assumption of power. The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good master, but they mean to be master.

There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters

With authority comes responsibility.

it's possible to go through our time on this ball floating in space without realizing that Fear has been pulling our strings all along. Our inner tyrant has made for us most of our choices—even those we were not aware of making. The fucked-up part about it is that Fear makes it easy for us to go along with this. It doesn't hurt us in an obvious way. It numbs us before injecting us with its poison—a slow form of euthanasia that takes a few decades to come to its conclusion. In

Intense propaganda and constant repetition kept the population on course for war.

The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government of the US since the days of Andrew Jackson," President Roosevelt wrote in a confidential letter to US diplomat Edward Mandell House in 1933. Of course, this statement was not made public.

how he gathered every morsel for later use as ammunition. His skill in this was impressive; he might not even be paying attention, and still, somehow, he absorbed details she shared. The most mundane, irrelevant facts were corrupted in his grip.

No man can take your freedom from you. They can limit your mobility, but that's about all they can do

Reckless action is worse than wise restraint.

Laws, like the spider's webs, catch the flies and let the hawk go free.