Quotes About Control

This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you.

Governments who manipulate population growth have two choices: making maternity pleasant, or making it inescapable.

The term "politics" shall refer to power-structured relationships, arrangements whereby one group of persons is controlled by another. By

herrschaft, a relationship of dominance and subordinance.3

Control of these fields is very eminently a matter of political power. One

Love has been the opium of women, like religion by the masses. While we loved, men ruled.

We all die, you know. And the life you have or don't have is not always determined by you.

But Herr Wiesenthal, I'm Catholic." "Miss Moran, the Church can be very dangerous when it feels threatened.

History is written by the victorious, the liars, the strongest, the most determined.

Out of all of these power relationships, when it comes to the workings of the economy, one in particular demands attention: the power of the wealthy to reshape the economy's rules in their favour.

If reinforcing feedbacks are what make a system move, then balancing feedbacks are what stop it from exploding or imploding. They counter and offset what is happening and, so, tend to regulate systems.

The international regime of intellectual property rights has significantly shaped the control and distribution of knowledge for hundreds of years. It's a story that began innocently enough in the fifteenth century, when Venice started awarding its famed glass-blowers 10-year patents to protect their novel creations from imitators. Show us how you made it, promised the law, and no one is permitted to copy you for a decade.

looking round him wildly. The boys were calm and said nothing.

And lock your hands to the table so they don't flail around or touch your hair.

When you create a résumé, for instance, it's not about listing every single role and responsibility you've had. Instead it's about highlighting accomplishments that all ladder up to your overall positioning, expressing a clear point of view. You're taking control of the impressions you make by doing the work for them.

There is one thing alone to do in this world and that is to keep acquiring money and more money, power and more power," Napoleon said.15 He

A man's home is his castle, but a woman's body has never been wholly her own. Historically, it's belonged to her nation, her community, her father, her family, her husband—in 1973, when Roe was decided, marital rape was legal in every state.

Denying women the right to end a pregnancy is the flip side of punishing women for conduct during pregnancy, and even if not punishing, monitoring. In the spring of 2014 a law was proposed in the Kansas state legislature that would require doctors to report every miscarriage, no matter how early in pregnancy.

Denying women the right to end a pregnancy is the flip side of punishing women for conduct during pregnancy, and even if not punishing, monitoring.

Pride and power] are the same except that pride leaves the lights on and power can do it in the dark.

I'm terrible with patience.

Even the sadistic misogyny of Buddha and Christ was nothing but an attempt to gain the better of a vastly superior opponent.

There. You see? You're already a pawn in her hands." She paused. "But you're not the only one. I am too. I can't escape after all. The more I want to, the more impossible it is. It's awful; it's as if my own will were paralyzed

The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.