Quotes About Control

Thoughts of suicide to stop it all now while I am still in control and aware of the world around me. But then I think of Charlie waiting at the window. His life is not mine to throw away. I've just borrowed it for a while, and now I'm being asked to return it.

The problem, dear professor, is that you wanted someone who could be made intelligent but still be kept in a cage and displayed when necessary to reap the honors you seek. The hitch is that I'm a person.

The words control, technique, and performance arise from a certain illusion, that of believing that a woman is longing for "a good lay." She is longing for much more than that; she is longing for a deep connection with the totality of her being.

In effect, you're saying that if you knew how you oughtt to live, then the flaw is man could be controlled. If you knew how you ought to live, you wouldn't be forever screwing up the world. perhaps in fact the two things are actually one thing. Perhaps the flaw in man is exactly this: that he doesn't know how he ought to live.

Exactly. That's what's been happening here for the past ten thousand years: You've been doing what you damn well please with the world. And of course you mean to go right on doing what you damn well please with it, because the whole damn thing belongs to you.

Donald Trump can do a lot of things I can't, but he can no more get out of the prison than I can

If the world was made for us, then it BELONGS to us and we can do what we damn well please with it.

N]ow we have a clearer idea what this story is all about: The world was made for man, and man was made to rule it.

Putting food under lock and key was one of the great innovations of your culture. No other culture in history has ever put food under lock and key - and putting it there is the cornerstone of your economy.[...] Because if the food wasn't under lock and key, Julie, who would work?

This is precisely how someone speaks who imagines that he is the world's divinely appointed ruler: 'I will not LET them starve. I will not LET the drought come. I will not LET the river flood.

Within your culture as a whole, there is in fact no significant thrust toward global population control. The point to see is that there never will be such a thrust so long as you're enacting a story that says the gods made the world for man. For as long as you enact that story, Mother Culture will demand increased food production today- and promise population control tomorrow.

Only slaves love being powerful. HANS ERICH NOSSACK

Every year, without fail, we outlaw more things, catch more people doing them, and put more of them in jail. The outlawed behavior never goes away, because, directly or indirectly, it's supported by the strong, invisible, unrelenting force called vision. This explains why police officers are much more likely to take up crime than criminals are to take up law enforcement. It's called 'going with the flow.

Because the Empire controls the media, we can turn any news to the Emperor's advantage.

I said shut up once already, with my mouth.

It's not always to the benefit of the story to have it so preordained.

For Xi, the Communist Party is paramount and central, the defining organizing principle for China's rise, and its discipline and control are essential.

Dear God, Help me to stop worrying about the future and the things I can not control. I always allow myself to become overwhelmed and I miss out on enjoying this amazing and wonderful life that I have been given. I miss out as I worry what might be. Help me to see more of you. God and less of me, please show me the way and direct my steps.

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

I fear being like everyone I hate, I fear failure, I fear losing control. I love balancing between chaos and control with everything I do. I always have a fear of going one way or another, getting lost in something, or losing everything to get lost in. And I fear being a completely acceptable sheep in society.

Man's greatest fear is chaos.

There are only two forces that unite men – fear and interest.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

I think I'm like most people – we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don't deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it's very hard not to be fearless.