Quotes About Control

He felt responsible for his fate, but his fate felt no responsibility for him.

GeleceÄŸe egemen olmak istenilmesinin nedeni, geçmiÅŸi deÄŸiÅŸtirecek güce sahip olmaktan baÅŸka bir ÅŸey deÄŸildir.

Narodi se likvidiraju tako da im se najprije oduzme sje?anje. Unište im se knjige, obrazovanje, povijest. Netko drugi im napiše druge knjige, da im drugo obrazovanje i izmisli drugu povijest. I narod onda postupno po?ne zaboravljati što je bio i što je sada, a svijet oko njega to zaboravi još mnogo brže.

How can she explain to Gustaf that within the magic circle of maternal energy, Irena has never manage to rule over her own life? How can she explain that the constant proximity of the mother would throw her back, into her weakness, her immaturity?

Stjecanje kontrole nad ženskim razmišljanjem ima, naime, svoja strogo odre?ena pravila; onaj tko odlu?i ženu nagovarati, uvjeravati je razumnim argumentima i sli?no teško da ?e nešto posti?i. Kudikamo je pametnije odrediti osnovnu autostilizaciju žene (osnovne principe kojima se rukovodi, ideale, uvjerenja) i nastojati da se (pomo?u sofizma, alogi?ne demagogije itd.) željena odluka žene dovede u sklad s tom autostilizacijom.

in his whole life he had never acted as he wished to act. He considered himself the administrator of his own immortality, and that responsibility tied him down and turned him stiff and prim.

Gli uomini gridavano di volere creare un futuro migliore, ma non è vero. Il futuro è solo un vuoto indifferente che non interessa nessuno, mentre il passato è pieno di vita e il suo volto ci irrita, ci provoca, ci offende, e così lo vogliamo distruggere o ridipingere. Gli uomini vogliono essere padroni del futuro solo per poter cambiare il passato. Si battono per poter entrare nel laboratorio dove si ritoccano le fotografie, dove si riscrivono le biografie e la storia.

Aquello que no ha sido elegido por nosotros no podemos considerarlo ni como un mérito ni como un fracaso.

Gelecek kimsenin umrunda olmayan, ilgisiz bir boÅŸluktur, geçmiÅŸ ise yaÅŸam doludur, k?zd?r?r, baÅŸkald?rt?r, yaralar, o kadar ki bu yüzden onu yok etmek ya da yeniden yaratmak isteriz. GeleceÄŸe egemen olmak istenilmesinin nedeni, geçmiÅŸi deÄŸiÅŸtirecek güce sahip olmaktan baÅŸka birÅŸey deÄŸildir.

He would never command her (...). Not that he lacks sensuality; he simply lacks the strength to give orders (...) What if she had a man who ordered her about? A man who wanted to master her? How long would she put up with him? Not five minutes! From which it follows that no man was right for her. Strong or weak.

Every situation is of man's making and can only contain what man contains.

He felt responsible for his destiny, but his destiny did not feel responsible for him.

All at once I understood that it had only been my illusion that we ourselves saddle events and control their courses; the truth is that they aren't our stories at all, that they are foisted on us from somewhere outside; that in no way do they represent us; that we are not to blame for the strange paths they follow; that they are themselves directed from who knows where by who knows what strange forces.

E' un'ingenua illusione pensare che la nostra immagine sia solo un'apparenza, dietro la quale è nascosto il nostro io come unica, vera essenza, indipendente dagli occhi del mondo. (...) è proprio il contrario: il nostro io è una pura apparenza, inafferabile, indescrivibile, nebulosa, mentre l'unica realtà, fin troppo facilmente afferrabile e descrivibile, è la nostra immagine agli occhi degli altri. E il peggio è che tu non ne sei padrone.

Every person should be given a poison tablet on the day he reaches maturity. A solemn ceremony should take place on that occasion. Not to prompt him to suicide, but, on the contrary, to allow him to live more securely and serenely. To live knowing he's in control of his own life and his own death

No quería sin embargo que se notase esa humillación (una humillación admitida es una humillación doble), así que intentó sonreír como si todo sucediese con su anuencia

We live in an age when private life is being destroyed. The police destroy it in Communist countries, journalists threaten it in democratic countries, and little by little the people themselves lose their taste for private life and their sense of it. Life when one can't hide from the eyes of others — that is hell.

Here too, perhaps, his passion for surgery and his passion for women came together. Even with his mistresses, he could never quite put down the imaginary scalpel. Since he longed to take possession of something deep inside them, he needed to slit them open.)

Berjuang berarti menempatkan kehendak seseorang terhadap orang lain dengan tujuan untuk menghancurkannya, memaksanya bertekuk lutut, dan barangkali membunuhnya.

E se avesse avuto o un uomo che le dava degli ordini? Un uomo che voleva dominarla? Quanto tempo l'avrebbe sopportato? Nemmeno cinque minuti! Ne derivava che nessun uomo le andava bene. Né uno forte né uno debole.

And I wish that the electric current could be shut off from guitars and instead connected to chairs to which I would personally tie all guitarists.

Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.

The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.

There is still a tendency to regard any existing government intervention as desirable, to attribute all evils to the market, and to evaluate new proposals for government control in their ideal form, as they might work if run by able, disinterested men free from the pressure of special interest groups.