Quotes About Control

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

Blood flashes through the brain in a matter of seconds, one quarter of all the blood from the heart, darkening as the brain takes the oxygen out of it. Thinking, perceiving and feeling, and the control of our bodies, most of it unconscious, are energy-intensive processes fuelled by oxygen.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature.

To conclude, in this chapter we have seen the characteristics of managing, as they were then and remain now: the pace, brevity, variety, fragmentation; the interruptions; the orientation to action; the oral aspect of the information; the lateral nature of much of the communication; and the tricky problem of exercising control without quite being in control.

Knowledge is power, and power is the possession of influence over the minds and actions of others.

Dreams seem to have a will of their own.

I would like to be able to gently drift in and out of existence when I wanted to.

People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf.

It's about time that governments feared the people instead of the other way around.

Ich halte deinen Kopf wie Hamlet Yorick's gehalten hat, aber du bist auf deinen Knien, mit einer Knarre im Mund.

The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.

Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.

Though some say youth doth rule me.

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.

A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.

Besides anarchy, the worst thing in this world is government.

The worst thing in the world next to anarchy, is government.

ground the coursing of flocks run wild.

Power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand.

When politics and home life have become one and the same thing, [...] then,[...] it is evident that we will be in a state of total liberty or anarchy.