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Quotes About Control

There's a lot more to ridin' a horse than just sittin' in the saddle and lettin' yer feet hang down.
~ Texas Bix Bender
The hand would chastise the head.
~ Theophile Gautier
THE LIFE OF A WARRIOR MUST BE CONTAINED. IF YOU ARE GOING TO SUCCEED AS A WARRIOR YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO WASTE YOUR PERSONAL POWER IN LIVING A LIFE WHICH IS HELTER-SKELTER.
~ Théun Mares
No man can claim that he would have power if his life or circumstances were different.
~ Théun Mares
The ninety degree shift does not cancel the effects of old age upon the physical body, but it does enable warriors to retain control of all their faculties, their knowledge, sobriety, and power, right up to and even beyond the moment of physical death. This is every warrior's reward for having been willing to fight impeccably right up until the final breath.
~ Théun Mares
Bravery is the ability to control your fear"
~ Thabiso Monkoe
Courage is the ability to control your fear
~ Thabiso Monkoe
Show your thoughts who's boss.
~ Thanissaro Bhikkhu
A Nobel horse Doesent feel the crack of his masters whip
~ The Dhammapada
The sun sets without thy assistance.
~ The Talmud
There are three whose life is no life: he who lives at another?s table; he whose wife domineers over him; and he who suffers bodily affliction.
~ The Talmud
There is that delicate, unique degree of love, that leaves no space for tolerance, possesses all instincts, and takes absolute control of heart and mind. That if that love is lost, you gradually lose the world..
~ The wise Pharoah Moe
He who commands the sea has command of everything.
~ Themistocles
I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.
~ Themistocles
It is nothing new to find that the sublime becomes the cover for something low. That is how potential victims are kept in line.
~ Theodor Adorno
Knowledge, which is power, knows no limits, either in its enslavement of creation or in its deference to worldly masters.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
What human beings seek to learn from nature is how to use it to dominate wholly both it and human beings. Nothing else counts.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
It is one of the basic tenets of fascist leadership to keep primary libidinal energy on an unconscious level so as to divert its manifestations in a way suitable to political ends.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
The culture industry is not the art of the consumer but rather the projection of the will of those in control onto their victims. The automatic self-reproduction of the status quo in its established forms is itself an expression of domination.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
Perhaps a film which strictly and in all respects satisfied the code of the Hays Office might turn out a great work of art, but not in a world in which there is a Hays Office.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
But the castration of perception by a court of control that denies it any anticipatory desire, forces it thereby into a pattern of helplessly reiterating what is already known.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
In principle everyone, however powerful, is an object.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
What human beings seek to learn from nature is how to use it to dominate wholly both it and human beings. Nothing else counts. Ruthless toward itself, the Enlightenment has eradicated the last remnant of its own self-awareness. Only thought which does violence to itself is hard enough to shatter myths.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
The way to a tyrant's heart is through a doctorate
~ Theodore Dalrymple