Quotes About Control

Everyone may be called comrade, but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

The fatal attraction of government is that it allows busybodies to impose decisions on others without paying any price themselves. That enables them to act as if there were no price, even when there are ruinous prices - paid by others.

As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.

The history of which peoples, nations, or civilizations have conquered or enslaved which other peoples, nations, or civilizations has been largely a history of who has been in a position to do so.

Government "planning" is not an alternative to chaos. It is a pre-emption of other people's plans.

In short, rent control reduces the rate of housing turnover.

The ignorance, prejudices, and groupthink of an educated elite are still ignorance, prejudice, and groupthink—and for those with one percent of the knowledge in a society to be guiding or controlling those with the other 99 percent is as perilous as it is absurd.

It is easy to give up freedom and hard to get it back.

Piketty's crucial misstep is verbally converting a fluid process over time into a rigid structure, with a more or less permanent top one percent living isolated from the rest of society that is supposedly subjected to their control or influence. It is a vision divorced from demonstrable facts, however consonant it may be with prevailing preconceptions.

Choice, like behavior and performance, is often circumvented by the vocabulary of the anointed.

What is called "social" planning are in fact government orders over-riding the plans and mutual accommodations of millions of people subject to those orders.

One of the main problems of price control is to define the appropriate price of what is being controlled

the supply of customers and the supply of labor are almost totally under the control of the education establishment. Compulsory attendance laws guarantee a captive audience, except for about 13 percent of American youngsters who attend private schools,5 and official requirements of education courses for permanent tenure keep out the unwanted competition of potential teachers from outside the existing establishment.

Una de las razones del éxito político del control de precios es que parte de sus costes están ocultos. Incluso las terribles consecuencias de la escasez son incapaces de mostrar el panorama completo.

Uno de los principales problemas del control de precios es el de definir el precio adecuado de lo que se está controlando

Jose loved giving orders to the servants, and they loved obeying her. She always made them feel they were taking part in some drama.

Criticism is really nothing but one person's opinion raised to the level of "the way it is." It's designed to control, either through making the criticized person conform, or by making them feel guilty or ashamed.

If you could hold your nose to avoid a stink, or close your eyes to cut out a sight, why not shut off your brain to avoid a thought?

I was behaving, just like I promised, but fate intervened.

we no longer remember a time when neither party had a monopoly on God.

The judicial strategists of the Christian Right claim that all they want is "equal access" and "toleration." But that isn't in fact all they want. They don't want equality; they want control. They don't want toleration; they want the opportunity to practice their intolerance. They don't want their religion to be included in the schools; they want the schools to be absorbed within their religion.

voluntary slavery

We all know that once we allow fear to hijack us and step into the driver's seat of our lives, that we're apt to say and do some really dumb, pretty destructive things.