Quotes About Control

This cancellation of process in government leaves it an empty violence that must perpetually and at any cost outdo itself, for it has no alternative idea and hence no alternative activity

Anger is so easy to get into and so hard to get out of.

Heresy no longer existed within religion; it was founded in the state.

Demons are like obedient dogs; they come when they are called.

The idea of choice has deeply penetrated our perception of feelings, as though we can 'choose' whether or not to have them.

He dominated her, but she tamed him

The Roman Senate determined that the most effective way to retake Jerusalem from Parthian control was to make Herod its client-king and let him accomplish the task on Rome's behalf. The naming of client-kings was standard practice during the early years of the Roman Empire, allowing Rome to expand its borders without expending valuable resources administering conquered provinces directly.

To accommodate the rapid influx of Europeans, entire cities were built on the outskirts of Cairo, far away from the indigenous population. The foreigners quickly took charge of Egypt's principal export of cotton. They built ports, railroads, and dams, all to implement colonial control over the country's economy. With the construction of their crowning achievement, the Suez Canal, Egypt's fate as Britain's most valuable colony was sealed. To pay for these massive

The feeling you are afraid to feel is running your life

If you're not comfortable with anger, you're not comfortable with power

Tenemos una necesidad morbosa de seguridad

Por eso, al final el mundo es invadido por Tlön, la realidad se disuelve y se altera. El narrador se refugia nuevamente en la lectura; en otro tipo de lectura esta vez, una lectura controlada, minuciosa, la lectura como traducción. El traductor es aquí el lector perfecto, un copista que escribe lo que lee en otra lengua, que copia, fiel, un texto, y en la minuciosidad de esa lectura olvida lo real.

Se ha dicho que cada gobierno tiene su capo.

By giving up or sharing control of small, nettlesome issues like dress codes, and of graver matters like factory closings and security, management creates a culture of self-government that has more resilience than any my-way-or-the-highway dictatorship.

Second: the people can be made to behave as you want them to behave via the subconscious of the public mind—no one else believed such a thing existed—which can be directed with symbols and signs. "If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind," asked Bernays, "is it not possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without their knowing about it?

Dangerous thing, a name. Someone might catch hold of you by it, mightn't they?

They're all so much afraid of the Council that they're not afraid of anything else.

I distinguish two types of human beings, Love people, who love the sky and the flowers, and Power People, who are essentially sold on naked power.

From time to time it's fun to close our eyes, and in that dark say to ourselves, 'I am the sorcerer, and when I open my eyes I shall see a world that I have created, and for which I and only I am completely responsible.' Slowly then, eyelids open like curtains lifting stage-center. And sure enough, there's our world, just the way we've built it.

If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim.

You're a master when things go well, you're a victim when they go out of control.

Every person, all the events in your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.

I didn't crash anything! They said I hit the wires, Don! I didn't see them!" "That explains it. You're a master when things go well, you're a victim when they go out of control." He was laughing at me.

the forces of rulers and ritual slowly, slowly will kill our freedom to live as we choose.