Quotes About Control

We won't make the mistake of excessive greed. We shall inch our way to empire—and those who stand in our way shall be dubbed warmongers.

Can you fight a force which can make you surrender willingly when it so desires; can make you a faithful servant when it so desires?

Control of self and society has been left to chance or to the vague gropings of intuitive ethical systems based on inspiration and emotion.

TRADERS … With psychohistoric inevitability, economic control of the Foundation grew. The traders grew rich; and with riches came power … It is sometimes forgotten that Hober Mallow began life as an ordinary trader. It is never forgotten that he ended it as the first of the Merchant Princes

Când poate È™ti un om dac? este sau nu o marionet?? Cum poate afla un om c? nu este o marionet??

În lipsa unui computer, o civilizaÅ£ie puternic? poate deveni periculoas?, ÅŸi de aceea e mai bine s? fie distrus?.

The Foundation can never lose, but that does not mean the rulers of the Foundation can't.

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The primary reason for the development of trade and traders was to introduce and spread this religion more quickly, and to insure that the introduction of new techniques and a new economy would be subject to our thorough and intimate control.

Cuándo puede saber un hombre que no es un títere?

Huh?" Donovan became aware of twenty pairs of mechanical eyes fixed upon him and twenty stiff-timbred voices declaiming solemnly: "There is no Master but the Master and QT-1 is his prophet!

Toda la vida normal, Peter, consciente o no, se resiste al dominio. Si el dominio es por parte de un inferior, o de un supuesto inferior, el resentimiento se hace más fuerte. Físicamente, y hasta cierto punto mentalmente, un robot, cualquier robot, es superior a un ser humano. ¿Qué lo hace esclavo, entonces? ¡Sólo la Primera Ley! Porque sin ella, la primera orden que daría usted a un robot le costaría la vida.

Stored energy had a way of leaking, no matter what was done to stop it. That was another aspect of the all-embracing, irresistible second law of thermodynamics.

I mean that it is an easy matter for him to instil into a capable general, say, the emotion of utter loyalty to the Mule and complete belief in the Mule's victory. His generals are emotionally controlled. They can not betray him; they can not weaken – and the control is permanent. His most capable enemies become his most faithful subordinates. The warlord of Kalgan surrenders his planet and becomes his viceroy for the Foundation.

Get this,' the trader spoke forcefully and earnestly, 'there are five or six fat slobs who usually run an average planet. They get the rabbit punch, but I'm not losing peace of mind over them. See. The people? The ordinary run of guys? Sure, some get killed, and the rest pay extra taxes for a while. But it settles itself out; it runs itself down. And then it's the old situation again with a different five or six.

Somewhere I had had a trace of faith in free will, but this morning I felt sure that man possessed as much choice as the clockwork of my wristwatch or the fly that stopped on the edge of my saucer. The same powers were driving Hitler, Stalin, the Pope, the Rabbi of Gur, a molecule in the center of the earth, and a galaxy billions of lightyears distant from the Milky Way. Blind powers? Seeing powers? It did not matter any more. We were fated to play our little games and to be crushed.

Los budistas dicen que la vida es un río, que navegamos en una balsa hacia el destino final. El río tiene su corriente, velocidad, escollos, remolinos y otros obstáculos que no podemos controlar, pero contamos con un remo para dirigir la embarcación sobre el agua. De nuestra destreza depende la calidad del viaje.

This is what women want: to be safe, to be valued, to live in peace, to have their own resources, to be connected, to have control over their bodies and lives, and above all, to be loved.

Y en ese instante, como si lo supiera todo, ella le dijo que el miedo es más fuerte que el deseo, el amor, el odio, la culpa, la rabia, más fuerte que la lealtad

The writer and the dreamer have so much in common: They can't control the plot, they are always part of the story or the dream.

Words are free, she tried to say, and she appropriated them; they were all hers.

Nat me ayudó a aceptar el hecho de que existen fuerzas más poderosas que mi voluntad, fuerzas incluso más poderosas que el amor.

What's at the root of this explosive mixture of desire for and hatred of women? Why are aggression and harassment not civil rights or human rights concerns? Why are women silenced? Why isn't there a declared war against such violence, like the war against drugs, terrorism, or crime? The answer is obvious: Violence and fear are instruments of control.

The spotless order of barracks and the artificial peace of fear reigned everywhere.