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Troll Quotes

Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.

Walter Benjamin, Marcus Paul Bullock, Michael William Jennings, Howard Eiland (1996). “Selected Writings: 1913-1926”, p.481, Harvard University Press

To live is to war with trolls.

Henrik Ibsen (1972). “The Oxford Ibsen: Brand. Peer Gynt”

If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.

Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.315, Penguin

We are defined and controlled by all that we have not transcended.

Da Free John, Adi Da Samraj (1978). “The Enlightenment of the Whole Body: A Rational and New Prophetic Revelation of the Truth of Religion, Esoteric Spirituality, and the Divine Destiny of Man”

Control your own mind, and you may never be controlled by the mind of another.

Napoleon Hill (1997). “Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success”, p.110, Penguin

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, 1: Correspondence and Private Papers”, p.138

Trolls are slow in the uptake, and mighty suspicious about anything new to them.

J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.24, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

To say I’m an overrated troll, when you have never even seen me guard a bridge, is patently unfair.

"Tina Fey: 'Ugly, pear-shaped and bitchy? I prefer offbeat, business class-assed and exhausted'" by Tina Fey, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2011.

Keep your goals away from the trolls.

Peter McWilliams (1995). “Love 101: to love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance”

For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears.

"Hermann and Dorothea". Poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, VII. 93, October 1797.