Quotes About Control

Women without their own drivers could get around only at the whim of husbands and sons. Some

No one sits, as you do, so close to a king, who does not begin to grasp how the levers of power work, and the cost of the oil that must grease them.

It's remarkable how very many things there are that a king may not do.

To lessen or destroy sexual pleasure is to lessen temptation; a fallback in case the religious injunctions on veiling and seclusion somehow fail to do the job.

If you want to please me very much, you will fall down when I shoot you," -Oates The White Darkness

She showed me the controls for the stereo, the video, and the lights, and added that if I just spoke in a normal tone in any room the house computer would hear me and carry out my instructions. I wasn't at all sure I liked the idea that every word I spoke was being listened to, but it seemed to be the price of perfect service.

During the past few years many nations have introduced population-control measures, enforced either by economic bribery (as in India, where the payment to a young man for undergoing an irreversible vasectomy is typically a quarter of a year's salary) or by social and governmental pressure (as in China, where early marriage is forbidden and where a third child is barred from receiving governmental welfare benefits).

The coming wave of automation will move way beyond the factory or public infrastructure and into our very biological processes such as aging and even giving birth. Used as we are to the gradual societal shifts brought about by previous change waves, often allowing decades to adjust and respond, I ask if we as a tribe are ready to abdicate our human sovereignty to the faceless forces of technology? Are you ready for the biggest loss of free will and individual human control in history?

Believe me - the Government will help you anytime it needs you.

Sexual religion is the opiate of the supermenial.

Society seems to find it irresistible to characterise the "unworldliness" of the male intellectual and academic in terms of his failure to control the women in his life.

Anger without power is folly.

He who would rule must hear and be deaf, see and be blind.

Many Western doctors hold the belief that we can improve everything, even natural childbirth in a healthy woman. This philosophy is the philosophy of people who think it deplorable that they were not consulted at the creation of Eve, because they would have done a better job.

Real vampires don't get pain, we give it." Florence da Vinci, Real Vampires Live Large

If you panic...you die.

The inability to yield control is often misinterpreted as inability or weakness. Giving up control is often confused with giving up. 223

Non si conosce mai chi si vuole, ma chi si deve o chi capita, secondo che una mano sleale ci rimescoli, accozzi e sparigli, disponendo o cassando a suo grado gli appuntamenti sui canovacci dei suoi millenni.

Every time I think I have something under control, it changes and I don't have it under control. I think it takes several years to get there. Jade is 19 months old, so right now I'm on alert all the time. And as a mom I think you're constantly worrying about things.

La folla non ragiona mai. È sempre cieca. E può diventare un mostro che nessuno è in grado di fermare.»

I have a fantastic relationship with money. I use it to buy my freedom.

The problem is that we like to control everything: a stupid, pointless, unhealthy idea. We need to have the opposite attitude, accept the fact that nobody really has any control over his or her own life: that was what the barman Nicola, from the Caffè Bohème, had said to him once.

Chiunque detenga il potere può controllare anche il linguaggio, e non solo con le proibizioni della censura, ma cambiando il significato delle parole".

In the fight against terrorism, national agencies keep full control over their police forces, security and intelligence agencies and judicial authorities.