Quotes About Control

How can one country make another change its clocks? What if everybody refuses?

Whoever wins, that's who decides the history. We act in our own self-interest.

You know the greatest lesson of history? It's that history is whatever the victors say it is. That's the lesson. Whoever wins, that's who decides the history. We act in our own self-interest. Of course we do. Name a person or nation who does not. The trick is figuring out where your interests are.

You know the greatest lesson of history? It's that history is whatever the victors say it is. That's the lesson. Whoever wins, that's who decides the history. We act in our own self-interest. Of course we do. Name me a person or a nation who does not. The trick is figuring out where your interests are.

You know the greatest lesson of history? It's that history is whatever the victors say it is. That's the lesson. Whoever wins, that's who decides the history. We act in our own self-

Your problem, Werner," says Frederick, "is that you still believe you own your life.

There are moments when von Rumpel feels impatience rising in him like bile, but he forces himself to swallow it back. It will come.

Both of them lived in the grips of forces they had no control over--the November wind, the revolutions of the earth.

You know the greatest lesson of history? It's that history is whatever the victors say it is. That's the lesson. Whoever wins, that's who decides the history. We act in our own self-interest. Of course we do. Name me a person or a nation who does not. The trick is figuring out where your interests are.

Your problem, Werner," says Frederick, "is that you still believe you own your life.

You know the greatest lesson of history? It's that history is whatever the victors say it is. That's the lesson. Whoever wins, that's who decides the history.

While external factors may influence our actions, they cannot control them, for that would be to negate free will. To say "what will be, will be" is not to imply that the future is predetermined.

he was also convinced that a strong executive authority should replace the incompetent competitive cockpit of Senatorial government.

WHAT NOW TOOK PLACE FLOWED from a mismatch of expectations between the dictator and the political nation

yet eager to command others;

His first task was to prevent Brutus and Cassius from taking over Greece

Tyranny, he once remarked, was a delightful place, but there was no way out of it.

he now controlled eight legions, loyal to him rather than the Republic.

government by three men did not promise stability.

Now he decided to assume tribunicia potestas in perpetuity:

he would enjoy the power of a tribune without actually having to hold the post.

No, far better for the queen to be persuaded to do away with herself.

the Roman state was remarkably nonbureaucratic; with no police force

Either the future is subject to chance—in which case nobody, not even a god, can affect it one way or the other—or it is predestined, in which case foreknowledge cannot avert it.