Quotes About Control

Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.

Quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est. Translated: A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand.

The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself.

To be feared is to fear: no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.

Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.

Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.

It was strange having so much knowledge at once and having so little power to direct her own fate. But she listened, she watched, and she learned.

I didn't like that person inside me who said and did awful things. But sometimes it felt as if I had no control over her.

She had power over him now, the way he'd had it over her for so many years.

Faut savoir s'étendre Sans se répandre.

No other person can have power over you or your destiny unless you decide to let him or her have it.

Secondo alcuni ci si trova di fronte a un "dilemma democratico" che si può enunciare in questo modo: più una entità/unità politica è piccola e dunque direttamente controllabile dai suoi cittadini, più sono ridotti i suoi ambiti di sovranità. [...] D'altra parte, più l'entità territoriale è estesa più si indeboliscono le opportunità di partecipazione dei cittadini.

The only thing that restrains you is fear , Anton Gorodetsky. For yourself, or for people—that's not important. But we are restrained by horror . And that is why we observe the Treaty.

To put it simply, magic that is controlled by reason is more like a knife than a grenade launcher.

And that, Pavel, is why you shouldn't use magic for every tiny little thing. Where you can put your trust in science, that's what you should do.

We are our own gods and our own demons

Some say Google is God. Others say Google is Satan. But if they think Google is too powerful, remember that with search engines unlike other companies, all it takes is a single click to go to another search engine.

We first fought... in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.

If you allow for a purely capitalistic society, without any type of regulation at all, you will get one monopoly that will eat all of the smaller fish and own everything, and then you'll have zero capitalism, zero competition - it would just be one giant company.

The present is the point of power.

Prolonging death was akin to prolonging an orgasm. The closer you could bring the victim to the finish line without crossing it, the better it

When she remembered the haughty style of his address, she dreamt of watching his eyes glaze over as she choked the life from his body;

That righteous anger quickly sharpens into determination. Determination, of course, being nothing more than anger with brakes and a steering wheel.

I'm not interested in what you know," said Herod. "I'm interested in watching you scream." "Then you're going to be disappointed." "We'll see," said Herod with a smile.