Quotes About Control

If our impulses were confined to hunger, thirst, and desire, we might be nearly free; but now we are moved by every wind that blows, and a chance word or scene that that word may convey to us.

Tú eres mi creador, pero yo soy tu dueño: ¡obedece!

You are my creator, but I am your master;—obey!

Everyone believes he can fashion a witch to his way of thinking so that she will satisfy his ambitions, dreams, and desires...

Shut up or I'll kill you.

Then when I saw Pain attack Hinata, I was so mad, so full of rage, I let the Nine-Tails take over without even thinking about it.

That is a considerable amount of puppets. But ... [Proceeds to summon one hundred puppets of his own] With this, I took down a whole country

If I can just get him in Kotoamatsukami, I can make Lord Fugaku tell everyone the coup is off. And I can make Fugaku himself believe from the bottom of his heart that it was his own idea.

Ne pas improviser ce que vous ne pouvez pas gérer

What distinguishes a totalitarian ideology is its utterly insular quality. It purports to explain the entire world and everything in it.

Half of the population is behind bars and the other half is guarding them,' Russians have said of their country since the times of Stalin.

Putin wanted to rule the world, or a part of it, from the shadows.

Russians had agreed to live under a sort of dictatorship in exchange for stability. But they assumed that it was a soft dictatorship, which could negotiate if the need arose.

There were no facts in her universe, and no issue of trust. There was power. Power demanded respect. Power conferred the right to speak and not be challenged. Being right was a question of power, not evidence.

had been just over a year since Khodorkovsky's arrest, and it was now clear Russia had passed two milestones. With the country's former richest man behind bars indefinitely, no one, not even the rich and powerful, could afford free agency.

And with this, the transformation of Russia back into the USSR was, for all Putin's intents and purposes, complete.

Russian law in fact gives the prime minister no authority over the military.

he seemed to see himself as a king barricaded in his castle, with thousands of soldiers in the battlement, the sights of their rifles trained on potential intruders.

It's time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy,' said Albert Shanker, long-serving President of the American Federation of Teachers.

Throughout history, the characteristic feature of the nation state is its monopoly of violence.

So if gangsters become governments, does this mean that governments began as gangsters?

Fascism and communism were and are religions of the state.

The police have come to resemble an occupying army who see the citizenry as the enemy.

Economists are quick to speak of 'market failure', and rightly so, but a greater threat comes from 'government failure'.