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Quotes About Control

Capitalist development modifies essentially the nature of the State, widening its sphere of action, constantly imposing on it new functions (especially those affecting economic life), making more and more necessary its intervention and control in society.
~ Rosa Luxemburg
Power is the ability to get things done.
~ Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Domination was not absolute, systems were imperfect, there was still too much room to maneuver - control could not be based on an organ that men could not control. There had to be more - an idea of imminent, eternal maleness that was not physical, visible, fallible; one that was greater than all women because greater than man; whose power was omnipotent and unquestionable - one god, God the father, who man now invented in his own image.
~ Rosalind Miles
Achieving power, man reached out for the secret of control; and as he began to look beyond the end of his penis, he found a stronger lord, a greater master - God.
~ Rosalind Miles
The more humans have mastered the world, the more it has taken on the taint of our own mortality. The world no longer seems deathless.
~ Rosalind Williams
I understand that trying and achieving are the same thing when you are your own master—and I am.
~ Rosamund Stone Zander
I am the framework for everything that happens in my life.
~ Rosamund Stone Zander
Any power she owned lay in her feigned indifference.
~ Louise Erdrich
Government is more like sex than people think. When you are having good sex, you don't appreciate it enough. When you are having bad sex, it is all you can think about.
~ Louise Erdrich
Government is more like sex than people think. When you are having good sex, you don't appreciate it enough. When you are having bad sex, it is all you can think about.
~ Louise Erdrich
But now he was losing confidence and control. His paintings were hiding from him because Irene was hiding something.
~ Louise Erdrich
Walking is a feat of controlled falling. Like life, I guess.
~ Louise Erdrich
And that was where the whiskey got hold of her. As it has with so many of us, even myself, the liquor sneaked up and grabbed her, got into her mind and talked to her, fooled her into thinking she was thinking for herself when really it was the whiskey thinking whiskey thoughts.
~ Louise Erdrich
She would always say that people who try to control people and change people's habits are the ones that make all the trouble. If you don't like somebody, walk away, she said, but don't try and make them like you. ---Harriet, on what Ole Golly says
~ Louise Fitzhugh
People who try to control people and change people's habits are the ones that make all the trouble. If you don't like somebody, walk away... But don't try and make them like you.
~ Louise Fitzhugh
The point of power is always in the present moment.
~ Louise Hay
the old geezer was eighty, he'd been horseback riding only last year ... now he had a different sport, he went down on all fours and the kids rode him ... giddyap, horsie! they whipped him with his riding whip! ... till the blood came! ... he loved it! ... all around his study! faster! faster! ... los! ... into the next room ... witches! witches! he yelled at them, with his bare old ass! ...
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Hjalmar ... is holding him, he'd put the handcuff on him ... one, not two ... he only had one ...
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Cuando a los grandes de este mundo les da por amaros, es que van a convertiros en carne de cañón
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Cuando tienes la cara bien dura, es bastante, entonces casi todo te está permitido, absolutamente todo, tienes a la mayoría de tu parte y la mayoría es quien decreta lo que es locura y lo que no lo es.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
There's no tyrant like a brain. Below
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
allemaal hetzelfde, waar je ook komt! welk regime ook, welke filosofie, sekte, kleur!... elk excuus is goed!... ze stormen toe, in zwermen! en dan is't te laat!... dan vreten ze je op!
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Where are you? I did everything you asked. You promised me a new home. A new face (Lovecraft (33). This was when Sam was talking to the girl in the toilet. This girl's name is actually Dodge. This was how Dodge was able to get to Sam and control him to go and find the keys for her. This quote shows how the deal between Sam and Dodge was made. In this panel, it also shows the face of Sam with cuts.
~ Lovecraft H P