Quotes About Control

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Prosperity lets go the bridle.

The ultimate expression of law is not order - it's prison.

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

When a nation can't admit to the process through which it builds hegemony, how can anything but delusion be a reality?

The apologists recognize that these places are controlled by absolute terror, but they justify the pig's excesses with the argument that we exist outside the practice of any civilized codes of conduct. Since we are convicts rather than men, a bullet through the heat, summary execution for fistfighting or stepping across a line is not extreme or unsound at all. An official is allowed full range in violent means because a convict can be handled no other way.

What have been called "women's issues" are freedom issues. Body control. The right of human beings to control their own bodies is a freedom issue. Respect. The right of human beings to be treated institutionally with respect as a human being is a freedom issue.

He had been seen by another. He had become a part of the other's world, and therefore no longer in complete control of his own. The eye was another kind of cage. When it saw you the lid came down, and you were trapped.

Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will...

These Are Not The Droids You Are Looking For.

To disarm the people... was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.

At Howard's election campaign launch on 28 October, he delivered his most memorable phrase in politics: 'We will decide who comes to this country and the circumstances in which they come.

Behold the life at ease; it drifts,The sharpened life commands its course.

But rewilding, unlike conservation, has no fixed objective: it is driven not by human management but by natural processes. There is no point at which it can be said to have arrived. Rewilding of the kind that interests me does not seek to control the natural world, to re-create a particular ecosystem or landscape, but – having brought back some of the missing species – to allow it to find its own way.

In managing our transport systems, our governments must constantly negotiate the paradox of mass movement. They must create a system which, for the sake of speed and efficiency, treats us like a herd, constantly prodded and coralled, divided, re-formed and forced into line. At the same time it must grant us the illusion of autonomy.

At heart, the mobile concept is about being in control—as a separate and distinct individual. This is the basis of mobilising the concept of communication—that it's an activity undertaken by an individual, over which that individual seeks control. (20)

About arrows - "They prick, cajole, exhort, sell, direct; and there is no way of measuring the amount of brain damage they do. It comes for free, however, like air pollution, Muzak in elevators, and the gentle sound of police sirens.

The invasion of our privacy by our every move being watched on the internet and our being filmed when we step outside is like the weather. We bitch but we still put up with it.

He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.

A family with the wrong members in control that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.