The history of arms control is a history of great visions eventually mugged by reality.

-Adelman, Kenneth Lee
  In Newsweek,1 Dec.

You could be a great musician, an innovative and important artist, but nobodycared if youdidn't makethe white people who were in control some money.

-Davis, Miles Dewey, III
  Autobiography, ch.10.

The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulationof words.If youcan control themeaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.

-Dick, Philip K(indred)
  I Hope I Shall  Arrive Soon,'How To Build  A Universe That Doesn't Fall  Apart Two Days Later'.

As of now, I am in control here in the White House.

-Haig, Alexander Meigs,Jr
  Said immediately after the attempted assassination of President Reagan, 30 Mar, in Vice-President George Bush's absence from Washington DC.

I agree that our methods of control are unlikely to be sufficiently delicate or sufficiently powerful to maintain continuous full employment. I should be quite content with a reasonable approximation to it, and in practice I should probably relax my expansionist measures a little before technical full employment had actually been reached.

-Keynes (of Tilton),John Maynard, 1st Baron
  Letter to E F M Durbin, 30  Apr.

The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti-abortion forces; what they want is control.Control over behavior: power over women.

-Le Guin, Ursula ne¤  e Kroeber
   Address to the National  Abortion Rights  Action League, Jan. Collected as'The Princess' in Dancing at the Edge of the World (1989).

Future historians will surely see us as having created in the media a Frankenstein monster whom no one knows how to control ordirect, and marvelthat weshould have so meekly subjected ourselves to its destructive and often malign influence.

-Muggeridge, Malcolm
  Christ and the Media,'Lecture1'.

I thought of my mother, who would publicly campaign for birth control but would never even think she needed to talk to me, so firmly was she convinced that sex was something no womanöno intelligent womanöwould ever submit to unless she had to.

-Munro, Alice ne¤  e Laidlaw
Lives of Girls and Women,'Baptizing'.

He who produces should be able to control that which he produces.

-Ngu‹ u g|‹   waThiong'o originally James Nguu‹  g|‹
  Quoted in Carol Sicherman Nguu‹  go‹  u‹   wa Thiong'o: The Making of a Rebel, pt.1, ch.2,'Nguu‹   go‹  u‹   on Nguu‹   go‹  u‹ '  (by Nguu‹   go‹  u‹ himself).

A family with the wrong members in controlöthat, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.

-Orwell, George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair
The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius, pt.3,'The English Revolution'.

A journey is like a marriage. The certainway to be wrong is to think you control it.

-Steinbeck,John Ernest
  TravelsWith Charley In Search of America, pt.1.