Quotes About Control

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

We are told 'no', we're unimportant, we're peripheral. 'Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that.' And then you're a player, you don't want to even play in that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world." -

The real truth, that dare not speak itself, is that no one is in control. Absolutely no one.

Jean Baker Miller pointed out that the so-called need to control and dominate others is psychologically a function, not of a feeling of power, but of a feeling of powerlessness. Distinguishing between power for oneself and power over others, she writes: In a basic sense, the greater the development of each individual the more able, more effective, and less needy of limiting or restricting others she or he will be.

Authority will lead you into ruin.

Wife beating without alcohol is like a circus without lions.

You either have a plan or you become part of somebody else's plan.

There is no question that a society that sets out to control its citizens' use of drugs sets out on the slippery path to totalitarianism.

We are led by the least among us and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons.

If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.

We may have doubts, but we control the present. We always have the choice to move forward with hope and confidence.

There were benefits to working with addicts. They didn't even realize they were slaves.

There's something healing about sitting here and listening to the waves, knowing that God is still in control even when it seems like he's not.

Much of what happens to us in life is due to chance and circumstances beyond our control. Being in the right place at the right time. Discovering that others have impacted us more than we know and for reasons that are not entirely clear. But hard work matters, too. There is an old saying: The harder I work, the luckier I get.

He understood that letting the magic guide him, that letting it think it was in control when actually it wasn't, allowed him to be its master.

Los gobiernos centrales siempre han constituido uno de los mayores peligros para la humanidad.

Power corrupts, and if not watched carefully, if not kept under control, it will come to dominate the user.

Humans—once they were born into the world—were of a different mind-set. They were determined to make their lives better not by adapting to nature, but by subjugating her. The entire history of their evolution has been centered on taking

As the German philosopher Walter Benjamin wrote, revolution is not a runaway train; it is the application of the emergency brake. It is capitalism which is out of control, driven as it is by the anarchy of market forces, and socialism which attempts to reassert some collective mastery over this rampaging beast.

Morality cannot be divorced from power.

Ends and origins are not inherent in the world. It is you, not the world, who calls the shots in this respect. Wherever you make a start, however, you may be sure that an enormous amount will have happend already. And whenever you call a halt, a great deal will carry on regardless.

You have one Mord-Sith and one Mother Confessor, here, both in very bad moods. I would suggest you not give us an excuse to lose our temper, or we may never find it again in your lifetime.

This is how tyrants win the will of the people: with lies.

Like all power, it simply exists. It's the user who determines what use it will be put to.