Quotes About Control

Courage isn't the absence of fear, or even the mastery of fear. It's refusing to let fear master you.

When a director at Pacific Gas & Electric, one of the nation's largest utilities, testified that all of its control systems were getting hooked up to the Internet, to save money and speed up the transmission of energy, Lacombe asked what the company was doing about security. He didn't know what Lacombe was talking about.

From where most hospital managers sit, Disney looks like a picnic compared to the fiscal, legal, and regulatory nightmare they face every day in a high-risk environment over which they have very little of the kind of control they would have at Disney.

The Pin is mightier than the sword

Most of the time when we say 'freedom,' we mean 'do it my way or I'll shoot you.

chi dice superstizione dice credulità. Chi dice credulità dice manipolazione, e chi dice manipolazione dice calamità. E' la piaga dell'umanità, ha fatto più morti lei di tutte le epidemie di peste messe assieme.

Mais parce que je ne pense pas, dit Néron en se relevant. -Et qu'est-ce que tu fais alors? -Je gouverne.

If human beings are fundamentally good, no government is necessary; if they are fundamentally bad, any government, being composed of human beings, would be bad also.

Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.

Ita fit ut ratio praesit, appetitus obtemperet.

These are the rules of big business...Get a monopoly; let society work for you; and remember that the best of all business is politics...

The eyes of the Englishman were open and stared back with frank candour. Except for the irises, which were of flecked grey so that they seemed smoky like the hoar mist on a winter's morning. It took Rodin a few seconds to realize that they had no expression at all. Whatever thoughts did go on behind the smoke-screen, nothing came through, and Rodin felt a worm of unease. Like all men created by systems and procedures, he did not like the unpredictable and therefore the uncontrollable.

Shannon's fingers itched to smash the man in the face. Inside his head he kept telling himself, Keep cool, baby, absolutely cool.

History is full of the dead weight of things which have escaped the control of the mind, yet drive man on with a blind force.

Slaves dream of freedom, commoners dream of becoming kings, what do kings dream of?

Mannon is the largest slave-holder in the world.

We are the rich. We own America. We got it God knows how, but we intend to keep it.

In practice, American modernizers tended to be distrustful of populist politics and inclined to favor elite-led societies; often they turned to modernization as a means of counterinsurgency and social control.

His usual approach in his young life—letting events come to him, being the detached if often perspicacious observer—would not suffice here, he realized. He had to seize control, had to bend destiny to his will.

Every time we take a step we're surrounded by the ideological birds of prey who feed on our possibilities, fill themselves with concepts of our desires and reenslave us with beautiful combinations of words which seem to depict the world we failed to realize.

The every day activity of slaves reproduces slavery

Anger is a bad counselor.

Those who do not do politics will be done in by politics.

I could kill that guy and eat it afterwards...