Quotes About Control

that the most potent power in the entire world came from having power over someone else.

they can also be as manipulative as a James Taylor song. Sure, they're calming and bring you to a good place-but at their core, the whole goal of the damn thing is to undo you.

Pulling back the slide and cocking the gun

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. — Alan Whitcomb

My point is that bureaucrats—like everyone else—have a mind-set. The longer they work for government, the more they believe government is the answer, and the less they trust the everyday citizen. In fact, they begin to believe that certain groups of citizens are the root of the nation's problems. They see them as a threat. If those citizens can be brought to heel, the bureaucracy sees itself as doing the citizenry at large a greater good, actually making their lives better.

The best kind of nation was one where the government feared the people. When the government feared the people there was liberty. When the people feared the government, there was tyranny.

The base makes the case. What they want goes. As French politician Ledru-Rollin once said, "There go the people.

You can't always control the situation you find yourself in, but you can control how you react to it.

Slow is smooth and smooth is fast.

I believe power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

You can't always control the situation you find yourself in, but you can control how you react.

He started by using his wealth to co-opt anyone who could have any impact on popular culture or public opinion. Newspapers, actors, journalists, publishers, politicians, business people, unions—you name it. The idea was to be able to control the media, as well as any other voices Americans trusted. "They knew they needed to change the way Americans saw themselves. It's ideological

You can't always choose the situation you find yourself in, but you can choose how you react to it.

If you must break the law, do it to seize power." —JULIUS CAESAR

Move or make a sound and you're going to the bottom of Dubai Creek. Understand me?

Insecure men with a patina of authority could be annoying. Give those same men actual authority and they could be deadly.

dictate the terms of the relationship," Carl had instructed her, "or they do. You never want it to be them. Always make sure it's you.

I have been so long master that I would be master still, or at least that none other should be master of me.

He can do all these things, yet he is not free. Nay, he is even more prisoner than the slave of the galley, than the madman in his cell. He cannot go where he lists, he who is not of nature has yet to obey some of nature's laws, why we know not. He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please. His power ceases, as does that of all evil things, at the coming of the day.

And, too, it made me think of the wonderful power of money! What can it not do when it is properly applied; and what might it do when basely used.

I do not intend to go, in the space of one hour, from the helplessness of enchantment to another sort of helplessness!

La magia no es respetable, caballero. No es... —buscó la palabra— seria. El gobierno no puede involucrarse en esas cosas.

You could also request to be locked into the seclusion room. Not many people made that request. You had to request to get out too. A nurse would look through the chicken wire and decide if you were ready to come out. Somewhat like looking at a cake through the glass of the oven door.

When he strolled into the kitchen with Samantha, he couldn't help grinning at the adoring look on Hans's face. Hans, a cup of coffee and a Diet Coke, please. Of course. But I have found a new cafe mocha you might like, Miss Sam. Much less coffee aftertaste. Would you care to try it? I trust you, Hans, she replied, smiling at the chef. Splendid. And might I suggest omelets for breakfast? Sounds good. Rick? He nodded, wondering just when he'd lost control of his household. That's fine.