Quotes About Control

El Estado norcoreano nació aproximadamente en la misma época en que se publicó 1984, y cualquiera podría casi creer que el santo padre del Estado, Kim Il-sung, recibió un ejemplar de la novela y le preguntaron si sería capaz de ponerla en práctica.

The North Korean state was born at about the same time that Nineteen Eighty-Four was published , and one could almost believe that the holy father of the state, Kim Il Sung, was given a copy of the novel and asked if he could make it work in practice.

The will to command and to dominate is one thing, but the will to obey and be prostrate is a deadly foe as well.

Durante la mayor parte de la historia de la humanidad la idea de un Estado total o absoluto estuvo íntimamente ligada a la religión.

Semi-educated people join cults whose whole purpose is to dull the pain of thought, or take medications that claim to abolish anxiety.

He dislikes even to touch these things, for they are the runes of an idiotic but nevertheless potent and evil magic: the magic of the think-machine gods, whose cult has one dogma, We cannot make a mistake. Their magic consists in this: that whenever they do make a mistake, which is quite often, it is perpetuated and thereby becomes a non-mistake.…

So how do you preserve such freedom," Zehron countered, "if the state itself coerces the people to follow its rules?

I hold the Fates bound fast in iron chains, And with my hand turn Fortune's wheel about;

All things that move between the quiet poles Shall be at my command. Emperors and kings Are but obey'd in their several provinces, Nor can they raise the wind, or rend the clouds; But his dominion that exceeds in this Stretcheth as far as doth the mind of man! A sound magician is a mighty god.

YOUNGER MORTIMER: Fear'd am I more than lov'd; - let me be fear'd, And, when I frown, make all the court look pale.

They want to be tied up, I tie them up. They want to be spanked, I spank them. They want to be called names, I call them names. But try and drink a little of their blood, and they scream like babies. What about my needs?

It's like he has this power over me—like I have an eating disorder and he's a package of Oreo Double Stuff cookies.

Any freedom that can be given can be taken away.

People thought I was one of those people who beats their kid in department stores." "Don't be ridiculous, Charlie, people love the parents who beat their kids in department stores. It's the ones who just let their kids wreak havoc that everybody hates.

Hey, you ever feel like you might just be the construct of an unyielding, all-seeing bureaucracy beyond our perception that is molding humanity to its own will and pleasure?

The only way to control the faithful is to not become one of them

Isolate 'em. That's why all your loony-toon cult guys have to get their people out in the boonies somewhere where no one can talk any sense into 'em. Just

Tits are flushing, ma'am," said I. Well they were! If she was going to run around in the altogether, she needed to get control over her bubbly bits or she'd never master proper royal subterfuge and guile. "Bit of a tell, love, the pinkening of the knockers, on someone as fair as thou.

Within twelve hours they had pulled mankind's teeth. Then the hunting began.

no somos más que políticos: vociferantes putas de la retórica.

You do not cause death, you do not prevent death, you are a servant of Destiny, not its agent. Get over yourself.

The world is led by Alpha Males, but the machinery of the world turns on the bearings of the Beta Male.

Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby, you can be the director of the opponent's fate.

Don't be ridiculous, Charlie, people love the parents who beat their kids in department stores. It's the ones who just let their kids wreak havoc that everybody hates.