Quotes About Control

Religion is the opiate of the masses.

They are my slaves [ books and papers ] and they must serve me as I please.

after the abolition of capitalism, there will be 'constant relative over-production' of equipment, raw materials and foodstuffs. 'Over-production of this kind', he says, 'is equivalent to control by the society over the objective means of its own reproduction.

But the working class cannot simply lay hold of the ready-made state machinery, and wield it for its own purposes.

Not only are they slaves of the bourgeois class, and of the bourgeois State; they are daily and hourly enslaved by the machine, by the over-looker, and, above all, by the individual bourgeois manufacturer himself.

The medieval proverb nulle terre sans seigneur [There is no land without its lord. — Ed.] is thereby replaced by that other proverb, l'argent n'a pas de maître [Money knows no master. — Ed.], wherein is expressed the complete domination of dead matter over man.

First to control the people, first control the media." Karl Marx

When a great social revolution shall have mastered the results of the bourgeois epoch, the market of the world and the modern powers of production, and subjected them to the common control of the most advanced peoples, then only will human progress cease to resemble that hideous, pagan idol, who would not drink the nectar but from the skulls of the slain.

Freedom consists in converting the state from an organ superimposed upon society into one completely subordinate to it

Whoever controls Germany, controls Europe.

The ruling ideas of each age have [n]ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

Does the brain control you or are you controlling the brain?

I like being in control, was all Keely said, looking at him. She could have said, I hate for anyone to know I don't know everything, that I sometimes feel so out of my depth that three lifesavers wouldn't keep me from drowning, but she didn't What's so wrong with that?

So, what do they pay you for...exactly? Slapped around. Tied up. Beaten. Given orders, made to do things. What kind of things? You know. No, I can't even begin to imagine. Lick my boots, crawl on floor, eat like dog. Nothing useful, then, like hoovering?

She was twenty-eight but already jaded. Twenty-eight seemed a particularly unsatisfactory age. She was no longer young and yet no one ever seemed to take her seriously as an adult. People still told her what to do all the time, it was infuriating. Her only power seemed to be over her own children and even that was limited by endless negotiation.

she didn't see the point of alcohol, or drugs. People had little enough control over their lives without losing more.

She seemed to have no inkling that life wasn't as orderly as her pencil case and that everything is chance and at any moment any number of remarkable things can happen that are totally beyond our control, events that rip up our maps and re-polarize our compasses - the madwoman walking towards us, the train falling off the bridge, the boy on the bicycle.

Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.

Man must choose whether to be rich in things or in the freedom to use them.

I think it's very much a men's thing to be able to have that fantasy to kill the beast.

The man committing suicide controls the moment of his death by executing a back flip.

Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts.

Too much of anything is a mistake, as the man said when his wife presented him with four new healthy children in one day. We should practice moderation in all matters.

Men still control the news, both on and off camera.