Quotes About Control

Mystical additions and subtractions always come out the way you want.

The conspiracy theory of society . . . comes from abandoning God and then asking: "Who is in his place?" —Karl Popper, Conjectures and Refutations, London, Routledge

Terrorism is not the enemy of the great systems; on the contrary, it is their natural counterweight, accepted, programmed.

An old saying had it that war is too serious to be left to the military. These days it needs bringing up to date: the world has become too complex to be left to those who used to run it.

Because if the Masters of the World exist, they can only be underground: this is a truth that all sense but few dare utter. Perhaps

It's not the news that makes the newspaper, but the newspaper that makes the news.

We like lists because we don't want to die.

it is always better when the person who frightens us is also afraid of us.

Deception is a state of mind and the mind of the state (attributed to James Jesus Angleton)

el mundo se ha convertido en un asunto demasiado complicado para dejar que sea gobernado por quienes lo gobernaban antes.

Il riso libera il villano dalla paura del diavolo, perché nella festa degli stolti anche il diavolo appare povero e stolto, dunque controllabile. Ma questo libro potrebbe insegnare che liberarsi della paura del diavolo è sapienza.

Vale para el Pentágono y para la CIA, pero no me dirás que todas las revistas de coches dependen de los servicios secretos de la demoplutojudeocracia al acecho.

To the anonymous divinity of Technological Communication our answer could be: "Not Thy, but our will be done.

Le guerre sono lo sfogo più efficace e naturale che si possa desiderare per tenere a freno la crescita degli esseri umani. Non si diceva infatti un tempo, partendo per la guerra, Dio lo vuole? Ma bisogna trovare gente che la guerra abbia voglia di farla. Se tutti si imboscassero, in guerra non morirebbe nessuno. E allora perché farle?

Cizvitler, dusmani sasirtmak icin en iyi yontemin gizli mezhepler yaratmak, tehlikeli heveslilerin bu mezheplere kosmalarini beklemek, sonra da tumunu tutuklamak oldugunu biliyorlardi. Baska bir deyisle, bir tuzaktan korkuyorsan, kendin kur tuzagi. Boylece tuzaga dusenler, senin denetimin altina girer.

No sin cierto remordimiento, me sentía como un Stalin que ríe entre dientes mientras piensa: «Haced, haced, pobres bolcheviques, que yo sigo estudiando en el seminario de Tiflis y después del plan quinquenal me encargo yo.»

Quando reina a anarquia, qualquer um pode se fazer rei.

Haven't you grasped the significance of this discovery? In the Telluric Navel you place the most powerful valve, which enables you to foresee rain and drought, to release hurricanes, tidal waves, earthquakes, to split continents, sink islands (no doubt Atlantis disappeared in some such reckless experiment), raise mountain chains …You realize the atomic bomb is nothing in comparison? Besides

And 'poor' does not so much mean owning a palace or not; it means, rather, keeping or renouncing the right to legislate on earthly matters.

I do not ask much, only Total Power

todo acto de apropiación implica una dosis de violencia

Când intr? în joc st?pânirea lucrurilor p?mânteÅŸti, e foarte greu ca oamenii s? gândeasc? aÅŸa cum cere dreptatea.

often the step between ecstatic vision and sinful frenzy is very brief

And as my eyes grew heavy with sleep I wondered if there were not some larger play still, in which Kings and Emperors and Popes, though thinking they are in the center of the space, are really only in the margin...