Quotes About Control

Only her master knew her true name, for in the Magic Kingdom to know a name was to own the being that carried it.

Ese adicto al crack podía fumarse cualquier cantidad de dólares con la velocidad de un demonio.

Do we not all do monstrous things to prevent the ultimate monstrous act? I like to visualize the world as a china plate held aloft by two sticks, one the US, the other the USSR. If one stick rises, so must the other, or else the plate goes smash.

In consiliis nostris fatum nostrum est, se leía. Es decir, "En nuestras decisiones reside nuestro destino".

The things that inform student culture are created and controlled by the unseen culture, the sociological aspects of our climbing culture, our 'me' generation, our yuppie culture, our SUVs, or, you know, shopping culture, our war culture.

This incessant creation of restrictive laws and regulations,surrounding the pettiest actions of existence with the most complicated formalities, inevitably has for its result the confining within narrower and narrower limits of the sphere in which the citizen may move freely.

Se le dico, mastro Pernath, che tutto il mondo non è che una partita a scacchi!

N-om fi È™i noi, fiinÈ›ele vii, un soi de zdrenÈ›e de hârtie? Nu cumva vântul sau altceva, cine È™tie ce, ne mân?, nev?zut, neînÈ›eles încoace È™i încolo, hot?rând ce s? facem È™i ce nu când noi, neÈ™tiutori, ne încredem în voin?? È™i zicem c?-i a noastr?.

No es posible que haya un "viento" incomprensible e invisible que nos llevara de un lado para otro, y determinara nuestras acciones, mientras que nosotros, en nuestra simpleza, creemos vivir bajo nuestra propia y libre voluntad?

Der Geschlechtstrieb ist das Joch vor dem Triumphwagen der Meduse, an den wir geschirrt sind.

One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.

The only real tyrants that humanity has known have always been the memories of its dead or the illusions it has forged itself.

The tyranny exercised unconsciously on men's minds is the only real tyranny, because it cannot be fought against.

It is the need not of liberty but of servitude that is always predominant in the soul of crowds. They are so bent on obedience that they instinctively submit to whoever declares himself their master.

To know the art of impressing the imagination of crowds is to know at the same time the art of governing them.

The power of crowds is to be dreaded, but the power of certain castes is to be dreaded yet more. Crowds are open to conviction; castes never are.

As soon as a certain number of living beings are gathered together, whether they be animals or men, they place themselves instinctively under the authority of a chief.

The crowd state and the domination of crowds is equivalent to the barbarian state, or to a return to it.

La raza y la esclavitud de nuestras necesidades cotidianas son las misteriosas causas maestras que gobiernan nuestro destino.

Medeniyetler ?imdiye kadar küçük bir fikir aristokrasisi taraf?ndan meydana getirilmi? ve idare olunmu?tur. Asla kitleler taraf?ndan de?il. Kalabal?klar yaln?z y?k?c? kuvvete sahiptirler.

Ill-treat men as you will, massacre them by millions, be the cause of invasion upon invasion, all is permitted you if you possess prestige in a sufficient degree and the talent necessary to uphold it.

Men forming a crowd cannot do without a master, whence it results that the votes of an assembly only represent, as a rule, the opinions of a small minority.

Una vez aguijonada, la imaginación es un caballo que se desboca y al que no sirve tirarle de la rienda

The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist.