Quotes About Control

Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.

No dictatorship has ever approved of jazz.

The world hasn't changed that much; men still rule.

Materialism sets us free from sin-by proving that there is no such thing as sin. There's just antisocial behavior, which we can control with measures like laws and educational programs.

Darvinizam je pri?a o osloba?anju ?ovje?anstva od iluzije da njegovom sudbinom upravlja neka sila viša od njega.

all studies of propaganda tell what a powerful weapon it is; that since armies fight as people think, it is essential to control that thought. This means some form of managing the news, and the only question is the degree to which the news should be managed openly and the degree to which it should be managed subtly.

But a democratic government cannot afford to be as crude as that. It never goes in for summary repression or direct control; it nullifies rather than conceals undesirable news; it controls emphasis rather than facts; it balances bad news with good; it lies directly only when it is certain that the lie will not be found out during the course of the war. This was the method

Sanity," she says to the ground, "is a mutual agreement between folks trying to control their world.

What matters is that you gain more and more control of the institutions that serve us all so poorly.

Battering, drunken husbands had their wives psychiatrically imprisoned as a way of continuing to batter them; husbands also had their wives imprisoned in order to live or marry with other women.

are psychopaths. They form cults around themselves, isolate cult members from their friends and family, teach that "sexual encounters" with the leader are both an honor and an occasion for spiritual enlightenment.

But as fast as geography is coming under our control, the clock is exerting more and more tyranny over us.

the Church is the merciless heart of the State.

El juego político es un asunto de profesionales para impulsar, sobre todo entre la gente menos politizada, un desapego fatalista, favorable, evidentemente, al mantenimiento del orden establecido.

Every established order tends to make its own entirely arbitrary system seem entirely natural.

The king, just and prudent, wants only those things which he can get.

Who is all-powerful should fear everything.

Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.

The worst of all states is the people's state.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Well, I think one of the problems with 'Birds of Prey' was there were too many cooks in that kitchen. The studio, the producers, the network, all had very different visions of what that should be. They should have just let Laeta Kalogridis control that. Instead they decided to try to get their hands in the mix.

Occasionally I get fed up, going to visit a factory, when I am being shown around by the chairman, who clearly hasn't got a clue, and I try to get hold of the factory manager, but I can't because the chairman wants to make sure he's the one in all the photographs.

I sometimes feel like it's my world and everyone is just visiting.

Artificial light is used because you can control it better. Technically, it is more homogeneous, more delicate, and less damaging to artwork. But I think it's interesting when the visitor can see variations in the light, when it is not only technical or suitable.