Quotes About Control

He felt as if he were being used, as if Willy were using him as a hard neutral surface against which to crush, like insects, the thoughts which haunted him.

Do anything you like . . . only don't say the word 'never'. I should die of that word.

I believe in you so much that you must do what I want.

If the fates were arranging things, it was better to leave it entirely to them.

What I really wanted just then was to put Georgie in cold storage. It is unfortunate that other human beings cannot be conveniently immobilized.

Le regole son quelle.

ona aÅŸktan söz ettim. o ise aÅŸk?n din gibi bir ÅŸey olduÄŸunu, asl?nda var olmad??? halde sistemin bizi daha kolay kullanmak için uydurduÄŸu bir ÅŸey olduÄŸunu söyledi.

How many shots does it take before the concept ay choice becomes obsolete?

For a sadist, it must huv aw the interest ay sticking pins intae a plastic doll.

Once ye accept that they huv that right, ye'll join them in the search fir this holy grail, this thing that makes ye tick. Ye'll then defer tae them, allowin yersel tae be conned intae believin any biscuit-ersed theory ay behaviour they choose tae attach tae ye. Then yir theirs, no yir ain; the dependency shifts from the drug to them.

La sociedad inventa una lógica falsa y retorcida para absorber y canalizar el comportamiento de la gente cuyo comportamiento está fuera de los cánones mayoritarios.

From this vantage point he came to a realization that everything that had happened to him before this had been a journey upward through time, everything that occurred after it a descent. If he could not control his fate, why be born?

Now any dogma, based primarily on faith and emotionalism, is a dangerous weapon to use on others, since it is almost impossible to guarantee that the weapon will never be turned on the user.

Weak emperors mean strong viceroys.

There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power.

Galaxy, he hated them! He stopped himself, drew a firm breath...There was no use thinking hate...He had learned to bear in silence. He ought not forget what he had learned now. Of all times, not now.

They don't want equal time - they want all the time there is.

I suppose there's no way of putting the mushroom cloud back into that nice, shiny uranium sphere.

The religion we have is our all-important instrument towards that end. With it we have brought the Four Kingdoms under our control, even at the moment when they would have crushed us. It is the most potent device known with which to control men and worlds.

The City was the acme of efficiency, but it made demands of its inhabitants. It asked them to live in a tight routine and order their lives under a strict and scientific control.

Why, they are so sure of themselves that they do not even hurry. They move slowly, phlegmatically; they speak of necessary centuries. They swallow worlds at leisure; creep through systems with dawdling complacence.

There is nothing your knife handlers can do in the way of rioting and demonstrating that will have any permanent effect as long as, in the extremity, there is an army equipped with kinetic, chemical, and neurological weapons that is willing to use them against your people. You can get all the downtrodden and even all the respectables on your side, but you must somehow win over the security forces and the Imperial army or at least seriously weaken their loyalty to the rulers.

La humanidad ha perdido todo control sobre su futuro -No lo ha tenido jamás, en realidad.Estuvo siempre a merced de unas fuerzas económicas y sociológicas que no entendía, de los caprichos del clima y de los azares de la guerra.

The government doesn't want any system of transmitting information to remain unbroken, unless it's under its own control.