Quotes About Control

Medien zu verstehen, ist eine Unmöglichkeit, weil gerade umgekehrt die jeweils herrschenden Nachrichtentechniken alles Verstehen fernsteuern und seine Illusionen hervorrufen.

A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.

I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments.

This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects.

Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom.

Die Welt ist in die Hände einer verrückten Irrenärztin gefallen.

ogni tirannia diventa davvero insopportabile solo nella misura in cui è solidamente fondata. Niente al mondo, infatti, l'uomo sopporta con più difficoltà di una giustizia implacabile

Planmässig vorgehende Menschen wollen ein bestimmtes Ziel erreichen. Der Zufall trifft sie dann am schlimmsten, wenn sie durch ihn das Gegenteil ihres Ziels erreichen: Das, was sie befürchteten, was sie zu vermeiden suchen (z.B. Ödipus).

Je planmässiger Menschen vorgehen, desto wirksamer trifft sie der Zufall.

Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand.

Power is paradoxical.

Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.

The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning, the mastery of the desires; so it is that punishment tames man, but does not make him "better."

One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!

The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed.

Morality is the greatest of all tools for leading mankind by the nose.

Socialism is the phantastic younger brother of despotism, which it wants to inherit. Socialism wants to have the fullness of state force which before only existed in despotism. ... However, it goes further than anything in the past because it aims at the formal destruction of the individual ... who ... can be used to improve communities by an expedient organ of government.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Not a few who meant to drive out their demons went thereby into the swine themselves.

Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it -- it is the future that makes laws for us today.

Roseman also put it: "Autonomous working units are good. Things to manage working units are bad.