Quotes About Control

narcissists sense that their partner will inevitably see how inadequate they are and leave for someone else. Rather than wait for that reality, they'd rather control the inevitability and leave first.

Narcissists identify being loved with being possessed, engulfed, and inevitably discarded.

No one can romance and seduce like a narcissist. If a narcissist sees someone they want, then having "it" becomes a project of massive proportions. This person must be possessed at any cost.

Intellectual boundaries are blurred by parents who too tightly control their children's perceptions. Often, children who become dependent on their parents to think for them don't develop intellectual boundaries. This kind of relationship encourages dependency and discourages responsibility.

Spontaneous expansion must be free: it cannot be under our control; and consequently it is utterly vain to say, as I constantly hear men say, that we desire to see spontaneous expansion, and yet must maintain our control. If we want to see spontaneous expansion we must establish native Churches free from our control.

To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.

When you look at our world, the truth is that we're all under the influence of politics.

Inside the big world that you cannot control, you have the small world of you that you can control. In that small world, if you look, you can see whether to go this way toward good, or the other way toward bad.

Hold the story inside until you are ready to burst. He

Vagabonding is about gaining the courage to loosen your grip on the so-called certainties of this world. Vagabonding is about refusing to exile travel to some other, seemingly more appropriate, time of your life. Vagabonding is about taking control of your circumstances instead of passively waiting for them to decide your fate.

Intense fatigue or illness may also weaken the control of the cortex. Hence we find tired or sick persons responding to threats with a greater degree of undifferentiated anxiety. In psychoanalytic terms, we would speak of this as regression.

There are very few groups left who, like doctors and psychotherapists and some farmers, still have the luxury of being their own economic bosses—and even they are subject to the rise and fall of prices and the fluctuating market like everyone else.

people grasp at political authoritarianism in the desperate need to be relieved of anxiety.

Is the human condition not defined by an endless struggle to control the ego's subterfuges?

She would bring him back to us as docile as a sheep. 'Women,' I concluded rather bitterly, 'have at their command certain means of persuasion which the best- organized police forces do not possess.

Pagaliau mes per?m?me pasaul? ? savo rankas, ir kiekvienas apverstas tankas atrod? kaip parblokšto dievo griau?iai.

Ce qu'il y a en effet de frappant dans l'« accélération de l'histoire » que nous vivons, c'est que cette vitesse vertigineuse à laquelle le monde court vers l'avenir s'accompagne d'une absence de contrôle sur la direction de marche.

He switched the gasper off quickly before it burned the toaster and the whole damn table. Too much power. Technology again. Technology was the asshole of science.

State intervention to try and control incidents of widow immolation begins during the time of the Sultans and the Mughals.

Religiosity is generally a characteristic of situations when there is a fear that the dominant position held by the followers of a religion is beginning to decline, and therefore has to be publicized where possible.

As too much power leads to despotism, too little leads to anarchy, and both eventually to the ruin of the people.

The objective of false prophets and teachers of whatever stripe is...the influence and control of the minds of men.

I know it ain't none of my buisness, but does you own somethin that each one of them keys fits?I glanced at the keys; there were about ten of them. I suppose, I replied, not really ever having thought about it. Are you sure you own them, or does they own you

So you done worked all year and the Man ain't done nothin, but you still owe the Man. And wadn't nothin you could do but work his land for another year to pay off that debt What it come down to was: The Man didn't just own the land. He owned *you.* Got so there was a sayin that went like this: "An ought's an ought, a figger's a figger, all for the white man, none for the nigger.