Quotes about Control

We have more guns in our country than citizens. I think we could with maybe 100 million fewer guns. And I think we'd be OK.

The ultimate form of censorship is assassination.

But the changes from the crab apple to the pippin, from the wolf and fox to the house dog, from the charger of Henry V to the brewer's draught horse and the racehorse, are real; for here Man has played the god, subduing Nature to his intention, and ennobling or debasing life for a set purpose. And what can be done with a wolf can be done with a man.

When you go to women," says Nietzsche, "take your whip with you.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

The power to exterminate is too grave to be left in any hands but those of a thoroughly Communist government.

A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.

Gwendolen would not have liked to be an object of disgust to this husband whom she hated: she liked all disgust to be on her side.

all men needed the bridle of religion, which, properly speaking, was the dread of a Hereafter.

A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards. And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.

She controlled herself by the help of an inward defiance, and without other sign of emotion than this lip-paleness turned to her play. But Deronda's gaze seemed to have acted as an evil eye. Her stake was gone.

I wonder how many decisions we make every day. I believe it's probably hundreds. We decide whether or not to get out of bed, what we'll eat, what we'll do, what we'll think about, what we'll say... and on and on.