Quotes About Control

The dream of control is seductive but it leads to monoculture in the field and fortified white bread in the supermarket.

Part of the power of the ego flows from its command of one's rational faculties.)

The brain has millions of local processors making important decisions. It is a highly specialized system with critical networks distributed throughout the 1,300 grams of tissue. There is no one boss in the brain. You are certainly not the boss of the brain. Have you ever succeeded in telling your brain to shut up already and go to sleep?

stimulation of the medial frontal cortex gives one the feeling of the urge to move

It amazes me that people won't even talk about it anymore. They're afraid or ashamed to show their vulnerability to this higher power. They don't want to reveal that they are not all-powerful themselves.

Never let them see you run.

Lee stopped, looked north. I twas working almost like a plan. It was possible to see Intention in it...he gave no further directions...it had never really been in his hands at all. And yet his was the responsibility.

General, you may attack'...He gave no further directions...With that word it was out of his hands. It had never really been in his hands at all. And yet his was the responsibility.

My experiment with surrender had taught me to always be present in the current moment and do my best to not allow my personal preferences to make decisions for me.

It's just more mushroom farming, ain't it – keep us in the dark and feed us shit…

It's a really crappy feeling to realize that your entire outook on your life can be controlled by some little pill that looks like a Pez, and that some weird combination of drugs can make your brain think it's on a holiday somewhere really sweet when you're standing naked in the middle of the school cafeteria while everyone takes pictures of you. Metaphorically. Or whatever.

It's a really crappy feeling to realise that your entire outlook on life can be controlled by some little pill.

Understanding your dog and knowing how to control him, develop his potentials, and resolve behavior problems, emotional conflicts and frustrations are no less essential than love and respect.

Before ISIS controlled eastern Syria, an oil well produced around thirty thousand barrels per day, and each barrel sold for two thousand Syrian pounds—eleven dollars at the current exchange rate. Local families that worked in refineries would make two hundred liras (a little more than one dollar) on each barrel they refined primitively. After ISIS took over, a barrel of oil became cheaper because it fixed the price

Like any government, it seeks to retain a monopoly on violence.

So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring forth in the agitation.

there is nothing wherein the force of a horse is so much seen as in a round and sudden stop.

Philosophy believes she has not made a bad use of her resources when she has bestowed on Reason sovereign mastery over our soul and authority to bridle our appetites.

Tis no wonder, says one of the ancients, that chance has so great a dominion over us, since it is by chance we live.

Hoy es el día, el día tormentoso y memorable en que meterá en vereda a su futuro incontrolado.

The individual is the product of power.

Knowledge is not made for understanding; it is made for cutting.

power is tolerable only on condition that it masks a substantial part of itself. Its success is proportional to an ability to hide its own mechanisms.

The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body