Quotes About Control

Experience has taught us that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good without the intervention of a coercive power

Nothing is more harmful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army superiority over another.

Money, we know, will fetch anything and command the service of any man.

There is a Destiny which has the control of our actions, not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of Human Nature.

Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.

The great monuments are raised up like dams, pitting the logic of majesty and authority against all the shady elements: it is in the form of cathedrals and palaces that Church and State speak and impose silence on the multitudes.

The horrors that we have seen, the still greater horrors we shall presently see, are not signs that rebels, insubordinate, untamable men are increasing in number throughout the world, but rather that there is a constant increase in the number of obedient, docile men. —George Bernanos

La noblesse vient de l'émotion contenue

People would say you look weak if you're not cursing the opposition and driving around in a big black car while always wearing a tie. Above all, to be 'strong' you're always supposed to be giving orders.

Power makes slaves of us all." & "A habit unchecked, becomes a necessity." - Ed and Luran Warren

Humans for the most part are unwary victims of the degree to which they have been controlled while at the same time purported to have freedom but in fact it is basically an illusion.

I don't want him drooling all over the place like a sex-starved spaniel.

Never turn your back on government.

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.

Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.

Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.

Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power and is often, in point of fact, useless. Just as a leader doesn't need intelligence, a man in my job doesn't need too much of it either.

I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets.

If a man own land, the land owns him.

Trudeau: Yes, well, there are a lot of bleeding hearts around who just don't like to see people with helmets and guns. All I can say is, go on and bleed, but it is more important to keep law and order in a society than to be worried about weak-kneed people who we don't like the looks of. Reporter: At any cost? How far would you go with that? How far would you extend that? Trudeau: Well, just watch me. . . ."

Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.

Law and order is one of the steps taken to maintain injustice.

Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell me how to do what I want to do.