Quotes About Control

Addiction is only as strong as you let it be, and I had let it become too powerful.

I want to learn martial arts, so when I want to kill someone, I can do something about it

the past, I used to fall for ultimatums. But I'd since learned that ultimatums are expressions of powerlessness, empty threats designed to try to influence a situation someone has no control over.

do all you can to stop the ungodly chatter.

There are always a few sad souls who want to be king.

The father of lies can block your effectiveness as a Christian if he can deceive you into believing that you are nothing but a product of your past—subject to sin, prone to failure, and controlled by your habits.

Phil doesn't say yes, but he doesn't really say no. He's willing to ruin a person's life in order to keep her from being angry at him.

The Cubans say that sex is the only thing that Castro hasn't rationed.

Well, sonny, in my country, gun control means using both hands.

You can always tell a police state, or a country at war, by how government vehicles move

We're all criminally insane, but most of us have good control mechanisms, internal and external. Remove the controls and you have a killer.

though it had been called into being, not by God Almighty, but by the Army Corps of Engineers, who liked to put the finishing touches on Creation.

The Feds, you have to understand, are so very politically correct and anal retentive, so very fucking frightened of the Washington Thought Police. They're totally cowed by the stupid directives that come out of Washington like a steady stream of diarrhea.

There is a vitality here of people, pursuing their own lives, unburdened by government interference. The price of nearly absolute freedom is borderline anarchy." "A little law and order wouldn't hurt." "Whose law? Whose order? Fascists and Communists have in common the desire to get everyone into lockstep. I don't want to get into lockstep.

I want to drink hard liquor, as you call it, before lunch. I've got a mouth like the bottom of the parrot's cage. You wouldn't want me to throw a screaming fit in front of all your officers.

There are some people, be they black or white, who don't want others to rise above them. They want to be the source of all knowledge and share it piecemeal to others less endowed. That is what's wrong with all these carpenters and men who have a certain knowledge. It is the same with rich people.

Machiavelli asks "whether it be better to be loved than feared or feared than loved?" He answers that "one should wish to be both, but, because it is difficult to unite them in one person, it is much safer to be feared than loved, when, of the two, either must be dispensed with.

Unlike in the past, there are now two kinds of people in the world: those who own and run the networks, and those who merely use them.

striving to be a master of the universe

With good reason, Joseph Goebbels described radio as 'the spiritual weapon of the totalitarian state'. Stalin might have added that the telephone was God's gift to eavesdroppers.

Power, let us not forget, is not just about being able to buy whatever you want; that is mere wealth. Power is about being able to get whatever you want at below the market price.

there are now two kinds of people in the world: those who own and run the networks, and those who merely use them

Stalin's power consisted of three distinct elements: total control of the party bureaucracy, total control of the means of communication Ã¢â'¬â€œ with the Kremlin telephone network as the central hub Ã¢â'¬â€œ and total control of a secret police staffed by men who themselves lived in fear.

The British Empire was the nearest thing there has ever been to a world government. Yet its mode of operation was a triumph of minimalism.