Quotes About Control

What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?

In the real world there's an after-effect of disappointment if you lose an argument. But if, to begin with, you're set up not to have this particular autonomy, then you're not disappointed.

The fastest way to lose an argument is to lose your temper.

To those who think that the law of gravity interferes with their freedom, there is nothing to say.

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

For the choke, there are no "tough guys". With an arm lock he can be tough and resist the pain. With the choke he just passes out, goes to sleep.

Jiu Jitsu is a mousetrap. The trap does not chase the mouse. But when the mouse grabs the cheese, the trap plays its role.

A real jiu-jitsu fighter does not go around beating people down. Our defense is made to neutralize aggression.

The art of conducting consists in knowing when to stop conducting to let the orchestra play.

Theater, art, literature, cinema, press, posters, and window displays must be cleansed of all manifestations of our rotting world and placed in the service of a moral, political, and cultural idea.

Television is a triumph of equipment over people, and the minds that control it are so small that you could put them in a gnat's navel with room left over for two caraway seeds and an agent's heart.

I'm painting an idea not an ideal. Basically I'm trying to paint a structured painting full of controlled, and therefore potent, emotion.

A martial art that has no rules is nothing but violence.

Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.

For the choke, there are no 'tough guys'

As a lifelong practitioner of martial arts, I'm trained to remain calm in the face of adversity and danger.

I think all art is about control, the encounter between control and uncontrollable.

Social Engineering - The art of replacing what works with what sounds good.

If you change the rules on what controls you... you will change the rules on what you can control.

Art made tongue-tied by authority.

Midas, they say, possessed the art of old; Of turning whatsoe'er he touch'd to gold; This modern statesmen can reverse with ease - Touch them with gold, they'll turn to what you please.

Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.

Should one ask: 'how do I cope with a well-ordered enemy host about to attack me?' I reply: seize something he cherishes and he will conform to your desires.

The clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him.