Quotes About Control

THE POLICEMAN: I'm a policeman. I'm paid by those in charge to combat dissatisfaction.

Where else are you going to get morality from, is what I say? Peace is just piggishness, it takes war to establish order.

Sanotaan: rajusti syöksyvä virta on väkivaltainen. Kukaan ei sano: virtaa kahlitseva uoma on väkivaltainen.

Do rio que tudo arrasta se diz que é violento, mas ninguém diz violentas as margens que o comprimem.

They enjoyed the passive acquiescence—and at times the direct support—of the police, the army, and the church.

There is a tyranny in the womb of every Utopia.

A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.

As every advance of Power is useful for war, so war is useful for the advance of power; war is like a sheep-dog harrying the laggard Powers to catch up their smarter fellows in the totalitarian race.

Command is a mountaintop. The air breathed there is different, and the perspectives seen there are different, from those of the valley of obedience. The passion for order and the genius for construction, which are part of man's natural endowment, get full play there. The man who has grown great sees from the top of his tower what he can make, if he so wills, of the swarming masses below him.

The modern absolutism, which we find the most natural thing in the world, would have been quite beyond the dreams of the most absolute of kings.

Rejoicing in his absolute authority, the single egoist will exploit it methodically, whereas a mêlée of egoists will bring about a ruinous disorder and a disastrous cleavage, because the contrariety of the appetites to be satisfied will prevent the satisfaction of any single one. Clearly, then, the effect of the pursuit of private ends under cover of the public good will be worse if there are many with a hand in power than if there is only one.

History is the register of the strife of authorities.

History is the register of the strife of authorities. Always and everywhere man takes possession of man to bend him to his will and adapt him to his designs; so that society is seen to be a galaxy of authorities which arise, grow, and fight each other.

There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.

Too little liberty brings stagnation and too much brings chaos.

Vowing never to be deluded again, he ordered that a new bride be brought to him each night and on each following morning he had her executed.

For all his worldliness he was shocked. He was afraid she was becoming corrupted. He had only to suggest she lift her hips a fraction higher or arch her back rather more sharply for her to comply at once. She began to add certain embellishments of her own. On their third night she ordered him quite roughly to bring his legs closer together and found a way of rubbing herself against his knee while sucking at his neck that made him shudder.

Control of the tongue! Vital for the man who would try to tread the Noble Eightfold Path, for no harsh or unkind word, no hasty impatient phrase, may escape from the tongue which is consecrated to service, and which must not injure even an enemy; for that which wounds has no place in the Kingdom of Love.

I have no control over what people think of me but I have 100% control of what I think of myself, and that is so important. And not just about your body, but so many ways of confidence. You're constantly learning how to be confident, aren't you?

Peace comes in situations completely surrendered to the sovereign authority of Christ.

Oddly, the most freeing thing we can ever do is to abdicate the throne of our own miniature kingdoms.

I think I showed my restraint by not pulling her hair out by the roots.