Quotes About Control

The most direct and obvious way authoritarians abridge freedom is to limit or discourage or ban outright certain options—NO CHOCOLATE, for instance. The

We sometimes treat the information industries as if they were like any other enterprise, but they are not, for their structure determines who gets heard. It is in this context that Fred Friendly, onetime CBS News president, made it clear that before any question of free speech comes the question of "who controls the master switch.

The rise of Hollywood and of the Zukor model is another definitive closing turn of the Cycle. In the course of a single decade, film went from one of the most open industries in the United States to one of the most controlled. The flip shows how abruptly industrial structure can change when the underlying commodity is information. For

Markets are born free, yet no sooner are they born than some would-be emperor is forging chains. Paradoxically,

Maybe life is a board game, but I never get to roll the dice.

Habit was stronger than emotion.

The third and final point is to anticipate an EFC time from air traffic control all the time. If the controller does not issue an EFC to you, request one as soon as possible. You may need that time should your communications radio fail after receiving your clearance. The expect-further-clearance time sets the occasion for the next steps to take should a radio failure occur.

Instrument pilots cannot descend from an en route altitude to an approach-level altitude or ultimately the minimum descent altitude when they wish.

Three criteria must be met. The pilot must be (1) cleared for the approach by air traffic control, (2) within the prescribed distance, and (3) on a published segment of the approach (i.e., positive course guidance).

N2864F, line up and wait.

The new Constitution eliminates the ignorant Negro vote and places the control of our government where God Almighty intended it should be—with the Anglo-Saxon race," said the president of Alabama's constitutional convention. Among the tools of suppression were tests that asked

He scoffed at the pictures of fruit vendors on city streets; they were selling apples at five cents apiece, he said, because it was more profitable than working a regular job. The Republicans had been routed in the 1930 midterm elections, losing seventeen seats in the Senate and control of the House.

Most members of the incoming state legislature took orders from the hooded order, as did the majority of the congressional delegation.

But at the time, she was too scared to do anything. His reach into the cops and courts, he told her, was beyond anything she could imagine.

He told her he "controlled every court in Indiana." For $30, he could get someone to sign an affidavit to anything he dictated, he boasted. For $50, he could get a man killed.

the most powerful Klan in history, the only realm that had complete political control of a state.

The Klan claimed fifteen United States senators under its control, and seventy-five members of the House of Representatives. Many had sworn allegiance in secret Klan initiation rituals, becoming "naturalized," as it was called.

At the peak of his power, D. C. Stephenson wanted to wipe the dirt of the Midwest from his shoes. He would say goodbye to India-no-place, Naptown, as the swells in his circle called the capital city. This was the year to do it, depending on when that Senate seat opened. All that would stand between him and Klan control over much of the United States was Madge Oberholtzer.

The Klan of the 1920s had enough control of the legal system to ensure that those who gutted the wealthiest Black community in the United States, a mass murder of American citizens, would not face justice.

D. C. Stephenson was telling the state's top elected officials what to do. And they followed the Klansman's every order.

Most information is time-consuming, negative, irrelevant to your goals, and outside of your influence.

What gets measured gets managed. —PETER DRUCKER, management theorist, author

These individuals have riches just as we say that we 'have a fever,' when really the fever has us." –Seneca Roman Stoic philosopher, famed playwright

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment." –Marcus Aurelius