Quotes About Control

They had no control over the programming they received, so they couldn't have behaved any differently.

To refrain is not the same thing as repression. To refrain is to hold the emotions and to express them in the right moment, not before, not later. That is why warriors are impeccable. They have complete control over their own emotions and therefore over their own behavior.

Beliefs are collars to which leashes can be attached

Fear is a serviceable tool, I suppose. Like the stalls in a battery farm. If you want to keep people from their collective strength, make them too afraid of each other to ever meet or talk.

Some kind of worship of the state, as though the state was somehow different from the schmucks who run it. Can't say I'm keen.

There's a kind of silence that just has the overwhelming feel of someone trying desperately not to break it, and that was the kind of silence I was breathing in right then.

My hand was a balloon sculpture, nerveless and fragile; it wouldn't do what it was told.

Control what people believe, and you control what they do. Who they are. The world is only the aggregate of human perception. Stories are scalpels that allow us to operate on those perceptions.

I cut him a small amount of slack, because it's generally easier to lead a horse to water than to hold it under for the time it takes to drown it.

Remove the document—and you remove the man.

In order to be in control, you have to have a definite plan for at least a reasonable period of time. So how, may I ask, can man be in control if he can't even draw up a plan for a ridiculously short period of time, say, a thousand years, and is, moreover, unable to ensure his own safety for even the next day?

People who think you can use terror are quite wrong. No, no, terror is useless, whatever its colour – white, red or even brown! Terror completely paralyses the nervous system.

But this is what disturbs me: if there is no God, then, the question is, who is in control of man's life and the whole order of things on earth?

No a czary, jak wiadomo, skoro raz si? zaczn?, to nic ju? ich nie powstrzyma.

Allow me to ask you, then, how man can govern if he cannot plan for even so ridiculously short a span as a thousand years or so, if, in fact, he cannot guarantee his own next day?

He waited for a time, knowing that no force could silence the crowd until it screamed out everything that had accumulated within it and quieted down by itself. (40)

Permita-me perguntar: como o homem poderia governar se ele não apenas está privado da possibilidade de elaborar um plano para um período de tempo ridiculamente curto, como, digamos, mil anos, mas nem consegue responder pelo dia de amanhã?

Porém, a feitiçaria, como se sabe, basta começar que ninguém segura.

no one can do a thing about feelings, they exist and there's no way to censor them. We can reproach ourselves for some action, for a remark, but not for a feeling, quite simply because we have no control at all over it.

We can reproach ourselves for some action, for a remark, but not for a feeling, quite simply because we have no control at all over it.

She blushed. It is a beautiful thing when a woman blushes; at that instant her body no longer belongs to her; she doesn't control it; she is at its mercy; oh, can there be anything more beautiful than the sight of a woman violated by her own body!

Even in the game there lurks a lack of freedom; even in a game is a trap for the players.

If it were possible to raise the penis by means of a simple command, then sexual excitement would have no place in the world.

I've always had the sense that my life is run by other people.