Quotes About Control

E o riso dele? Er aalgo absolutamente dominador. Ninguém tinha a menor chance diante dele

none of them had it. They had no qualms about stealing, but they needed to be told. They liked to be told, and Viktor Chemmel liked to be the teller. It was a nice microcosm.

Without words, the Fuhrer was nothing.

The fuhrer decided he would rule the world with words. I will never fire a gun, he said, I will not have to. Still, he was not rash. Let's allow him at least that much. He was not a stupid man at all. His first plan of attack was to plant the words in as many areas of his homeland as possible.

Yes, the Führer decided that he would rule the world with words. "I will never fire a gun," he devised. "I will not have to." Still, he was not rash. Let's allow him at least that much. He was not a stupid man at all. His first plan of attack was to plant the words in as many areas of his homeland as possible.

Frau Lindner war eine scharfkantige Frau mit dicken Brillengläsern und einem ruchlosen Blick. Sie hatte sich diesen Blick zugelegt, um jeden Gedanken an Diebstahl in ihrem Laden im Keim zu ersticken. Sie hütete ihr Geschäft mit einer soldatesken Haltung, einer unterkühlten Stimme, und selbst ihr Atem roch nach Heil Hitler.

When building monsters don't be surprised when they become monstrous.

Woman breed baby, but man can only make Frankenstein.

So don't try to scare me with your phony Lord business. I wonder if you men don't trump up all that religious stuff to keep women in line.

The misleading effect of books like George Orwell's 1984 is to project into the future a state of affairs that already exists.

And thus I learned that at Harvard, while knowing a great deal is the norm and knowing everything is the goal, appearing to know everything is an acceptable substitute. I pondered this great truth during the two-hour seminar. I was so buoyed up by it that I didn't pay enough attention to snorkeling up little bits of food in order to keep my nausea under control. I sailed right on into my next class, another seminar, confident that I could get through it without losing my lunch.

El miedo está conectado con el deseo monárquico de controlar a otros en vez de confiar en ellos y dejar que sean independientes, que sean ellos mismos.

Emotions are virtually always responses to thoughts. That's great news, because while it's impossible to control an emotion once a thought has triggered it, we can change our thoughts deliberately. We do this not by contradicting them, but by questioning them. EXPLANATION:

according to some medical psychologists, it's physiologically impossible for your mind to stay locked in a war of control when you're engaging its ability to generate compassion and appreciation.

Now hold up your left palm (you may have to put down this book for a minute) and picture your Wild Child there: 2 inches tall, dressed in skins and bark, covered with scars, waiting for an opportunity to escape or subvert the Dictator's brutal control. Watch until you can see them both clearly in your mind's eye.

Hate is more toxic than any chemical. It poisons from the inside out. And it's a fast-acting poison; before you know it you're filled with it, and the hate is in charge. You can't control it anymore.

One of the biggest mistakes we can make is to start grieving over things that haven't even happened yet.

Robert Conquest once suggested that 'a curious little volume might be made of the poems of Stalin, Castro, Mao and Ho Chi Minh, with illustrations by A. Hitler.

As I've already mentioned, 1984 and I were getting on famously. A no-frills setup, run without sentiment, snobbery or cultural favouritism, Airstrip One seemed like my kind of town. (I saw myself as an idealistic young corporal in the Thought Police.)

Blood and bodies and death and power.

Oppression lays down blood-lust. It lays it down like a wine.

There are many accounts of prison floors strewn with genitals, breasts, tongues, eyes and ears. Arma virumque cano, and Hitler-Stalin tells us this, among other things: given total power over another, the human being will find that his thoughts turn to torture.

we took the simple step of illegalising all opposition. And the autobahn to autocracy lay clear.

There are no grand plans, no master strategies, just the lust for power, the insane addictive desire to accumulate more and more because too much is never enough.