Quotes About Control

When the computers developed, they would take over a good deal of the burden of the politicians, and sooner or later would also take over their power,

Assassination: the extreme form of censorship.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

The art of government is the organization of idolatry.

The man who listens to Reason is lost reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

To drift is to be in hell; to be in heaven is to steer.

I've stopped drinking, but only while I'm asleep.

If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten.

I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. ... These two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot's hands.

Some years ago a psychiatrist had told me that finding out things other people didn't want known was my way of trying to stay even with a society filled with people bigger than I was. The remark had been meant to startle, to provoke insight, and eventually to alter my behavior. Instead, I'd simply found that I thoroughly agreed with him and had gone out after a private investigator's license. [Dr. Robert Frederickson AKA Mongo]

His heart runs away with his head.

Juchniewicz silenced Cogan with a communiqué of unusual clarity: "Higher authority wants a mean fucker in the job.

that's what God does. He moves the wind across the water or leaves it still. He can do all that. That's God doing that and He can do it on any lake that He wants to.

Humans were still in the loop but no longer in control.

Software was born. Numerical codes would be granted full control—including the power to modify themselves.1

Walking in the Spirit means to live each moment under the control of the Holy Spirit. Walking involves living a step at a time, moment by moment; and to walk in the Spirit means to take each step of my earthly walk under the direction and control and leadership of the Holy Spirit.

She thinks your lady-love will rule you as the moon rules the tides.

Instruments of coercion, once created, have a tendency to find their own natural masters.

The varieties of skullduggery which make up the repertoire of the totalitarian government are just about as unlimited as human ingenuity itself, and just about as unpleasant. For, as you know, no holds are barred. There are no rules of the game. They can do anything that they think is in their interests.