Quotes About Control

Cárdenas se convirtió en el nuevo Porfirio Díaz. Imposible que se moviera una hoja de papel sin su autorización, y sin embargo pasó a la historia como el salvador

el clero continuó gobernando las mentalidades y dirigiendo exitosamente a la nación a la ruina y al atraso.

Para mantenerse libres hay que tener los ojos siempre abiertos puestos sobre el gobierno. Hay que espiar sus pasos, oponerse a sus atentados, reprimir sus desvíos… [el objetivo] es ejercer un control perpetuo sobre los hombres que llegan al poder. Aunque vosotros los hayáis elegido, controlarlos es un deber de todos en todo momento.

Nuestra historia política oscila entre la fragmentación de poder y el caos, por un lado, y su excesiva concentración y sus consecuencias indeseadas, por el otro. No hemos logrado los equilibrios: un grado de desarrollo político en el que el gobierno funcione inserto en esquemas de contención, controles y contrapesos.

To think without saying is to hold an armed grenade without throwing it.

Jealousy feeds upon suspicion, and it turns into fury or it ends as soon as we pass from suspicion to certainty.

My real adversary has no name, no face, no party. It will never be elected, yet it governs - the adversary is the world of finance.

The public is a ferocious beast -- one must either chain it up or flee from it.

There has never been a perfect government, because men have passions and if they did not have passions, there would be no need for government.

Indeed, woman can be a machine run wild, or a machine can be a better, more subjugated, and efficient woman.

It is supposed that power corrupts," the caterpillar said in a voice as untroubled as time itself. "Yet the powerful are often corrupt before they are powerful. In fact, I find that they too often become powerful by being corrupt. Whether real or perceived, a lack of power can also corrupt.

For now. But if I ever decide you're useless, you are a dead man." To be killed by you is to be desired more than a life excluded from your service." Bravo." Her Imperial Viciousness laughed with genuine feeling. "Bra-vo!

Because you could not master whatever enmeshed you you became its slave - You learned this bitterly, early. In order not to become its slave you had to become its master. You became its master. Even as master, of course, you remain its slave.

While we have minimal control over the events that befall us, we have the final say over how we regard and react to them.

Personal life is a play between powers without and powers within the central function of Will. Personal life ends in subjection to such external powers, or rises to mastery over them. 3.

Private capitalism makes a steam engine; State capitalism makes pyramids.

Without even looking at me, he swiped the scissors out of his belt and flung them across the room. They flashed through the air and stuck, shivering, deep in the wood of the door, right next to my head. I held my breath. "I never miss." He grinned. "Unless I mean to.

definition of remorse: a mourning that is out of control and never ends, that can strike out of the bluest of skies, across the softest of snows.

He shouldn't be telling her this. He's using information from my life to give himself power. I loathe that.

Guns discommode me. Their facility alarms me. Point and kill. Ruin someone's life. Remove at a finger pull deeply loved people, as important in their spheres as the sun in the sky. The very weight of a gun disturbs me-an insolent object, insisting on its own importance.

Upstairs will pull the plug.

Relieving people of the burden of freedom in order to make them feel safe is a recurring theme in the history of authoritarianism.

Listen, here is the law! I am the law!

It is entirely possible that you get unpredictable behavior out of predictable rules.