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Quotes About Control

Joe Barbera's s always complaining that he can't get humor into cartoons anymore. Just do it. You've got your money. Why do they let the networks run their lives?
~ John Kricfalusi
What kind of world results if the power to dominate and control others, inflicting enormous suffering in the process, is sanctioned by a divine being who can at the same time redeem that suffering and release the perpetrators and their victims from that world's evils?
~ John Lamb Lash
They drum that into you: discipline trumps courage. In a fight, the people who win are the ones who do what they're told. It's not like it is in films. Don't be brave, just do what you're told.
~ John Lanchester
From his dealings with his mother, Smitty had learned the following truth: the person doing the worrying experiences it as a form of love; the person being worried about experiences it as a form of control.
~ John Lanchester
The person doing the worrying experiences it as a form of love; the person being worried about experiences it as a form of control.
~ John Lanchester
all religions are confusing," nikos said. "that's how the priests stay in business.
~ John Lange
The Americans will see you. God knows why, but they will.' 'You have a way of making it sound as though they're above the law,' said Troy. 'What you don't grasp, Troy, is that they run things now.
~ John Lawton
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
~ John Lehman
Keep you doped with religion and sex and TVAnd you think you're so clever and classless and freeBut you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see.
~ John Lennon
Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.
~ John Lennon
to discover that the moon has something on it and it seems to be intelligently controlled.  When we were in our infancy of development
~ John Leonard
The essence of fascism is to make laws forbidding everything and then enforce them selectively against your enemies.
~ John Lescroart
once known sprang to his mind: The essence of fascism is to make laws forbidding everything and then enforce them selectively against your enemies. It
~ John Lescroart
Stalin's postwar goals were security for himself, his regime, his country, and his ideology, in precisely that order.
~ John Lewis Gaddis
Tis a Mistake to think this Fault [tyranny] is proper only to Monarchies; other Forms of Government are liable to it, as well as that. For where-ever the Power that is put in any hands for the Government of the People, and the Preservation of their Properties, is applied to other ends, and made use of to impoverish, harass, or subdue them to the Arbitrary and Irregular Commands of those that have it: There it presently becomes Tyranny, whether those that thus use it are one or many.
~ John Locke
Methinks Sir Robert should have carried his Monarchical Power one step higher and satisfied the World, that Princes might eat their Subjects too.
~ John Locke
Every man has a property in his person, This nobody has a right to, but himself.
~ John Locke
Whenever law ends, tyranny begins
~ John Locke
We are all born slaves, and we must continue so;
~ John Locke
or a man's own consent subjects him to a superior.
~ John Locke
Kings are above the laws
~ John Locke
Though it be ever so plain, that there ought to be government in the world
~ John Locke
Lo mismo se puede decir de la providencia. ¿Cómo Dios controla el clima y las estaciones? Los controla al hablar, por medio de Su palabra:
~ John M. Frame
In this way, you force time to your will. Time, for sighted people, is that against which they fight.
~ John M. Hull