Quotes About Control

The one aim of these financiers is world control by the creation of inextinguishable debt.

Engineering is the art of organizing and directing men and controlling the forces and materials of nature for the benefit of the human race.

The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive its organization is necessarily tyrannical.

Friday was not a fish, he could not swim off through the sea; he was not a bird, and could not fly off through the air; if he lived at all, he had to live on that island. And if that island was Crusoe's, Crusoe was his master through life to death.

The pagan may lose confidence in one particular kind of authority. When his faith begins to waver, he is more likely to change the name of the imaginary authority – or to assume that it controls everyone except himself – than to accept the nonpagan view that human beings are self-controlling.

In all cases, such beliefs rest on the pagan superstition that the individual is not responsible for his acts; that he must depend on these superhuman persons who have both the right and the power to control the lives of people assumed to be their natural inferiors.

a thing is not property unless it is owned; and without ownership, there is little incentive to improve it.

What is put into the hands of B cannot be put into the hands of A.

Man is the only creature that dares to light a fire and live with it. The reason? Because he alone has learned to put it out.

The real offense, as she ultimately perceived, was her having a mind of her own at all. Her mind was to be his—attached to his own like a small garden plot to a deer park.

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

People think responsibility is hard to bear. It's not. I think that sometimes it is the absence of responsibility that is harder to bear. You have a great feeling of impotence.

Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.

For the greatest part of humanity and the longest periods of history, empire has been the typical mode of government.

Who controls money control the world.

Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.

Who controls the money controls the world

Well, you can just stop and think of what could happen if anybody with a decent system of government got control of that mainland. Good God.… There'd be no power in the world that could even—I mean, you put 800 million Chinese to work under a decent system… and they will be the leaders of the world.34

Power is the great aphrodisiac.

they agreed to cede a third of European Russia to German control in the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk of 1918.

the emperor does not govern the barbarians. Those who come to him will not be rejected, and those who leave will not be pursued."28 The objective was a compliant, divided periphery, rather than one directly under Chinese control.

The logic of war is power, and power has no inherent limit. The logic of peace is proportion, and proportion implies limitation.

la dependencia de la coerción es síntoma de un liderazgo inadecuado

Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.