Master Volume Control

Famous quotes containing the words master, volume and/or control:

    “The love of their country is with them only a mode of flattering its master; as soon as they think that master can no longer hear, they speak of everything with a frankness which is the more startling because those who listen to it become responsible.”
    —Marquis De Custine (1790–1857)

    “We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Only one thing is certain: if pot is legalized, it won’t be for our benefit but for the authorities’. To have it legalized will also be to lose control of it.”
    —Germaine Greer (b. 1939)