Quotes About Control

He who controls the spice controls the universe.

Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.

Absolute power is the power to destroy.

All governments eventually lean further and further towards aristocracy.

You say yes to the mess by surrendering control-by opening yourself up to the capriciousness of the crowd, with no guarantee of success for your efforts. Ultimately, that takes one quality above all others: courage.

The world doesn't make sense until you force it to.

She doesn't quite chop his head off. She makes a Pez dispenser out of him.

Hello, I'm Shellie's new boyfriend and I'm out of my mind. If you so much as talk to her or even think her name, I'll cut you in ways that'll make you useless to a woman.

Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.

If Truth is taken away from us, then Right and Wrong are taken from us as well. If we don't know Right and Wrong, then we can't, we won't control ourselves, but will look to someone else to bring order through brute force and raw power. We will be controlled by a tyrant, and we will no longer be free...

When you say 'I want to fit in,' you are essentially volunteering yourself as a victim, and when the thing you want to fit in with is 'society' - well, as 'society' is just another word for government, you're basically begging the government to control you and use you as it wishes for its nefarious purposes, which can be pretty damn nefarious, if 'nefarious' means what I believe it does.

Betreffs des Mauls, da solltet Ihr das Eure vielleicht halten.

Just before I quit, I heard the nuclear whale programme had taken a big leap forward. They mentioned a name. It was something to do with neurology and neural network computers. They said that to exercise full control over the animals you needed to know about Professor Kurzweil. Maybe it's nothing, but I just thought I'd tell you.

And as we shall see, the direct power the human mind has over its own body, mightier spirits have over all matter.

If you possess something but you can't give it away, then you don't possess it ... it possesses you.

The ideal type of the Communist is a man in whom all individual, emotional, and unconscious elements have been reduced to a minimum and subjected to the control of an iron will, informed by a supple intellect. That intellect is totally at the service of a single and compelling idea, made incarnate in the Communist Party: the concept of History as an inexorable god whose ways are revealed 'scientifically' through the doctrine and method of Marxism-Leninism.

Aligning strategy and sales is the most difficult part of implementation because it involves a combination of factors: a coherent strategy, the right incentives, hiring, developing a performance culture, and sustaining field behaviors in the face of market changes largely outside the control of the seller.

Unfortunately, it just so happened that the city-wide camera system, controlled by the police, was down that night from 12:20 AM until 12:35 AM. Seriously? Isn't that convenient… Even more convenient that at the exact same times, there was a complete radio silence on the emergency channels.

Government is the Entertainment division of the military-industrial complex.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but prisoners of their own minds.

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over its government.

We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.