Quotes About Control

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

Why worry about things you have no control over?

The point to remember is that what the government gives it must first take away.

The point to remember is what the government gives it must first take away.

Forty-three years old, and still afraid of my father. Some tycoon, hunh?

Making someone die, he was suddenly sure, was different from killing them. He could never kill anyone. But he could make someone die.

Guns don't kill people. The aliens behind the triggers do.

You know, prayer and d-d-demons." My mother was quiet, thinking over his statement. At last, she said, "What is prayer but meditation? What is a demon but a fear that lives inside us, one we cannot easily conquer on our own? If you prefer to use those words, it's all right by me. So I make the same offer. If you like, we can meditate together on this fear you can't control." Heekin's

Syllables govern the world.

They that govern most make the least noise.

A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat.

Emotions make excellent servants, but tyrannical masters.

To believe that someone else is responsible for your emotional state is to give them a sort of psychic power over you they do not have...we really do generate our own feelings. No one else can do it for us. We respond and are responsible. To think other people are responsible for our feelings is to inhabit a billiard ball, inanimate universe.

When any human group decides that they can define God, the outcome is always predictable. The "true faith," once defined, must then be defended against all critics, and it must also then be forced upon all people—"for their own good, lest their souls be in jeopardy.

He ruleth all the roost.

R-4 got stuck on the First Law. "Can anyone really protect a human being from all harm whatever?" it thought. "No. It is inevitable that all humans must be injured, contract illnesses and ultimately die. The future can only be averted for humans who are already dead. Ergo ..." It took a dozen cops to subdue R-4, after his blood orgy in a department store (83 dead, none injured).

The best way to manipulate a man is to make him think he is manipulating you.

The impulse of the American woman to geld her husband and castrate her sons is very strong.

And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.

Quando ficar ofendido dá poder às pessoas, elas ficam ofendidas facilmente.

The smaller the government, the less the need to manipulate politicians.

Good government has to mean less government.

Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house.

The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.