Quotes About Control

Crime wouldn't pay if the government ran it. —UNKNOWN

The point is that the Party has lost the power to control what the Chinese people believe.

the central government views itself, not competition, as the regulator of industry.

Technocrats evidently believe that to build competitive enterprises they must first eliminate competition.

in the words of jurist John Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court, "the power to tax involves the power to destroy.

During the Second World War, China, briefly united under Chiang Kai-shek, was split into pieces controlled by the Kuomintang, the Japanese, the Communists, the Tibetans, and the Muslims.

The Maoist mechanisms of social control have been loosened. A totalitarian state has become merely an authoritarian one.

As jurist Marshall also noted, "the power to destroy may defeat and render useless the power to create.

any relationship is under the control of the person who cares the least.

We are responsible for most of what happens to us.

As much as we try, we do not control how we feel or what we think.

What is the biggest obstacle to creativity? Attachment to outcome. As soon as you become attached to a specific outcome, you feel compelled to control and manipulate what you're doing and in the process you shut yourself off to other possibilities. Creativity is not just about succeeding. It's about experimenting and discovering.

The beast caged. Rather limiting for Mr Hyde.

Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.

Now our world is at the present time firmly in the grip of a mechanical monster, whose head - if you want to call it that - is the World Engineer's Complex. That monster is opposed to us and can keep all too good a tab on us through every purchase we make with our credit numbers, every time we use the public transportation or eat a meal or rent a place to live.

Americans became so thoroughly democratic that much of the period's political activity, beginning with the Constitution, was diverted to finding means and devices to tame that democracy.

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.

Frustration is anger caged in impatience.

Anger is a bad counselor.

Art is the triumph over chaos.

...for so a wise man shall overrule his stars, and have a greater influence upon his own content than all the constellations and planets of the firmament.

How can something bother you if you won't let it?

How is it that one match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box of matches to start a campfire?

A cat is a tiger that is fed by hand.