Quotes About Control

But when we live, we believe that we have a right to everything in the universe - that everything is ours to touch.

She wrinkled her nose to dismiss the thought. This is how she had learned to release some of her anxiety- thoughts may come, but she didn't have to follow them everywhere they wanted her to go

Stevie was not one of those people who thought fate decided for her. Fate was making choices. Fate was at least trying.

In the transition to statism, every infringement of human rights has begun with a given right's least attractive practitioners

My dear fellow, who will let you?" "That's not the point. The point is, who will stop me?

Dare not choose in your minds the work you would like to do when you leave the Home of the Students. You shall do what the Council of Vocations shall prescribe for you. For the Council of Vocations knows in its great wisdom where you are needed by your brother men, better than you can know it in your unworthy little minds. And if you are not needed by your brother men, there is no reason for you to burden the earth with your bodies.

A free economy cannot exist without competition. Therefore, men must be forced to compete. Therefore, we must control men in order to force them to be free.

No hay nada que pueda arrebatar a un hombre su libertad, salvo otros hombres.

Nature is not to be conquered, man is.

The laws say that men may not write unless the Council of Vocations bid them so.

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer--and that is the way he has acted through most of history." --Atlas Shrugged

He belonged in the countryside, she thought—he belonged everywhere—he was a man who belonged on earth—and then she thought of the words which were more exact: he was a man to whom the earth belonged, the man at home on earth and in control.

He defeated her by admitting her power; she could not have the gratification of enforcing it.

She knew that she could not move until he permitted her to. She saw his mouth and the silent contempt in the shape of his mouth; the planes of his gaunt, hollow cheeks; the cold, pure brilliance of the eyes that had no trace of pity. She knew it was the most beautiful face she would ever see, because it was the abstraction of strength made visible.

Eddie, what do we care about people like him? We're driving an express, and they're riding on the roof, making a lot of noise about being leaders. Why should we care? We have enough power to carry them along – haven't we?

She felt no thrill of conquest; she felt herself owned more than ever, by a man who could say these things, know them to be true, and still remain controlled and controlling—as she wanted him to remain.

He had to choke the knowledge. He had to kill the vision. He had to obey and draw the lines as instructed.

Now I'll give you a choice. That train is going to be run. You have no choice about that. But you can choose whether it's going to be run by one of your men or not. If you choose not to let them, the train will still run, if I have to drive the engine myself.

She tried to demonstrate her power over him. She stayed away from his house; she waited for him to come to her. He spoiled it by coming too soon; by refusing her the satisfaction of knowing that he waited and struggled against his desire; by surrendering at once.

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer—and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

To control the consciousness of others becomes his only passion; power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.

man who rules the mob only as long as he says what the mob wants him to say.

FCC power rests on ... nonobjective law (which) delivers men's lives, fortunes, careers, ambitions into the arbitrary power of a bureaucrat who can reward or punish at whim.