#troll

In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire, brought under one government a quarter of the earth and its inhabitants. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#british empire #brought #controlled #earth #empire

Gun control means control. It means control for the government and the government starts controlling the people. ↗

— Luke Scott

#controlling #government #gun #gun control #means

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#affront #anything #cannot #consolations #controlled

There's a lot of things that go on when you're on tour that cannot be controlled. I'm not even talking about myself, but of course there's sexual activity and drugs, fighting and language; it is certainly not a place to raise a family. ↗

— Peter Steele

#activity #cannot #certainly #controlled #course

We may overcompensate for our feelings of powerlessness by attempting to control and manipulate other people and our environment. Or we may eventually burst forth with uncontrolled rage that is highly exaggerated and distorted by its long suppression. ↗

— Shakti Gawain

#burst #control #distorted #environment #eventually

There is zero correlation between IQ and emotional empathy... They're controlled by different parts of the brain. ↗

— Daniel Goleman

#brain #controlled #correlation #different #different parts

We're failing when it comes to controlling spending. ↗

— Lindsey Graham

#controlling #failing #spending

Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#constraints #controlled #ideals #material #much

To live is to war with trolls. ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

#fighting #internet #life #trial #trolls

I look into his eyes and jump… off of a high dive plunging deep into the pools of green staring back at me. No matter how hard I fought it, no matter how unreasonable or out of control it feels and no matter how much I try to reason it away the truth in this moment… is that Jonathan Hayes owns me heart and soul. ↗

— Kathryn Vance-Perez

#love #truth #love