Quotes About Control

Sometimes when you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them.

My brain had been burping up such inappropriate thoughts at inopportune moments. Mental gas I couldn't control.

Manipulating the manipulatable?

Tanr?,iradesini hakim k?lmak için yeryüzündeki iyi insanlar? kullan?r;yeryüzündeki kötü insanlar ise kendi iradelerini hakim k?lmak için Tanr?'y? kullan?rlar.

Desire urges me on while fear bridals me

Combat is fear and management of fear far more than it is organized murder. Those who manage fear best will seize the day.

Only way you're gonna have a world with universal equality is if you got one where there's only one guy left standing.

Taking power away from a man is a dangerous thing. Someone always pays.

The nannyism is partly to distract from the corruption — and partly just another opportunity to leverage it. A good general rule is that the more a government wants to run its citizens' lives, the worse job it will do at the most basic tasks of government.

The state is more interested in self-aggrandizement and power than it is in promoting the good.

Power knows power.

The thing about a cavity search is this: it has nothing to do with the dentist.

Mr. Huber was 10 percent teacher and 90 percent prison guard, hard-muscled and tough. He hauled Griffin's foot out of the garbage, dropped the crumpled paper airplane in its place, and uttered a single word: "Sit.

They think giving us sugar is like sprinkling water on the Gremlins.

Dan showed it no mercy. He pushed the throttle as far as it would

It was a commitment to God. He was first on the calendar that day where He belongs every day. And it is not the sort of commitment one compromises. Not if one wants to seize time and keep it under control. It is the start of an organized day, an organized life, and an organized private world.

The very first Maxim of Tyranny, is and always was, to puzzle the Understandings and excite the Admiration of the People.

On the throne of the world, any delusion can become fact.

The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity—much less dissent.

Drugs. If they did not exist our governors would have invented them in order to prohibit them and so make much of the population vulnerable to arrest, imprisonment, seizure of property, and so on.

Do not regulate the private lives of people because, if you do, they will become angry and antisocial, and they will get what they want from criminals who work in perfect freedom because they know how to pay off the police.

To turn life into words is to make life yours to do with as you please, instead of the other way round

To want power is corruption already.

Halleck smiled. "Good. So do I. But then I am an enemy of the people, and regard the ship of state like any other ship: for the captain to sail it safely he must never ever consult the crew. That is why I am for a king, any king, the more tyrannical the better.