Quotes About Control

Fear is as dangerous an enemy as resentment.

If a prince holds on to his state by means of mercenary armies, he will never be stable or secure.

In fact, after living in Communist China for so many years, I realized that one of the advantages enjoyed by a democratic government that allows freedom of speech is that the government knows exactly who supports it and who is against it, while a totalitarian government knows nothing of what the people really think.

While I listened to the words of homage to Mao, I remembered Mao's awesome power, like a blanket over China threatening to smother whomever he chose.

A vörösgárdisták még a forgalmi lámpák rendjét is meg akarták változtatni, mondván, hogy a piros szín nem jelenthet megálljt, csak haladást. addig is, amíg a vita folyt, kikapcsolták a lámpákat.

I have met many Europeans and Americans who thought Communist China was an egalitarian society. This simply is not true. The fact is the Communist Government controls goods, services and opportunities and dispenses them to the people in unequal proportions.

Communism was a godless ideology: an idealized system of human government that could only be maintained by operating a ruthless police state

Alguém que iça as velas de um barco e assim se deixa levar pelas tempestades não esteve numa viagem; apenas foi jogado de um lado para o outro. O mesmo acontece com a vida. Estar fora de controle, ser carregado pelos acontecimentos sem ter tempo para as experiências mais valiosas e significativas, é bem diferente de viver verdadeiramente.

iyi eylemler de arzudan kaynaklan?yorsa, eÅŸit ölçüde kontrolünüz d???ndad?r

You stuck listening devices all over the dacha--even in the bathroom. You spend the people's money to eavesdrop on my farts.

and perhaps my worst habit is overloving and like most who live to excess i will be broken in two by my unwillingness to control my feelings

Because I think we forget something about slavery: There was an enormous amount of sexual license. People talk about, well, the money; the economy; the this…But you realize if you own a human being, you really own them. You can get them—boys, girls—to do anything you say, on pain of death. That's what it means to own a human being.

I cannot be comprehended except by my permission

These are only new devices for putting the weak at the mercy of the strong.

We are automata entirely controlled by the forces of the medium being tossed about like corks on the surface of the water, but mistaking the resultant of the impulses from the outside for free will. The movements and other actions we perform are always life preservative and tho seemingly quite independent from one another, we are connected by invisible links

The... development of man [has as its] ultimate purpose the complete mastery of mind over the material world.

Religion is opium for the masses

Free your self from one passion to be dominated by another and nobler one. But isn't that, too, a form of slavery?

I ask and ask again, beating on chaos: "Who plants us on this earth without asking our permission? Who uproots us from this earth without asking our permission?

run off—and how will you ever get control of them again! They come to life, join, separate, ignore your commands, arrange themselves as they like on the paper—black, with tails and horns. You scream at them and implore them in vain: they do as they please. Prancing, pairing up shamelessly before you, they deceitfully expose what you did not wish to reveal

Could it be that the higher one's master stands, the rope tying one to slavery is lengthened by the same amount? In that case, if we jump and frolic in a much wider domain, we die without ever discovering its boundaries.

Pese a todo lo que puede hacer un médico, maestro ¿por qué es una hoja al viento y el auténtico poder sólo está en manos de Alá?

To hold a human soul in the palm of your hand like a pebble. To feel somebody slip away, yet by your actions to bring her back! Not even a king had such power. Selected.

Tyranny is the exercise of some power over a man, which is not warranted by law, or necessary for the public safety. A people can never be deprived of their liberties, while they retain in their own hands, a power sufficient to any other power in the state.