Quotes About Control

He believed that rank without power was a sham.

executions were meant as an exercise in frightfulness according to the theory developed by the Emperor Caligula: "Oderint dum metuant" (Let them hate us as long as they fear us).

Major von Kleist gave orders that a man or, if no man was available, a woman, be taken from every household as a hostage." Through some peculiar failure of the system, the greater the terror, the more terror seemed to be necessary.

The appetite for power is old and irrepressible in humankind, and in its action almost always destructive.

against the unmeasured aggrandizement of any power whatsoever

Fathers do as they wish with their children. They break their hearts if it suits them, as easily as they would wring a chicken's neck to make a meal!" -- Lewis Mallory

Deny God, and authority rests on force alone; we relapse into despotism.

Of authority there are two sorts, the authority of right, and the authority of force.

Bob Barker reminding you: help control the pet population. Have your pet spayed or neutered.

You have thoughts, but you are not your thoughts—and they definitely don't have to run the show. You

We can't control everything thing our kids do. Sooner or later they're just gonna do what they're gonna do. They're like people that way.

I recommend against putting your fist through your monitor.

Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

Now I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, "How in a free country such as this, can we ban video games and golf, yet continue to permit stamp collecting?"

Something about all that power seemed to make the assholes who wielded it believe they were invulnerable.

Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them.

A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you have.

Most Americans have no real understanding of the operation of the international money lenders. The accounts of the Federal Reserve System have never been audited. It operates outside the control of Congress and manipulates the credit of the United States

A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away

Mystery and terror are the bulwarks of tyranny.

What if a puppet could cut its own strings, and in that act of defiance and strength of will become truly alive? Become is own puppetmaster?

He thought for a moment. About puppets. About being controlled. Everyone was controlled by something, the Impressionist knew. By a spouse. A parent. A boss. A friend. By one's own impulses, be they dark or light. Everyone was a puppet to something. Most people just couldn't see the strings, is all. And so they didn't believe they were puppets in the first place.

When you feel like things are out of control, you take control. Yeah, that's what you do. Take control. So, yeah. Oh, yeah.

Once he gets inside your head, you're dead.