Quotes About Control

In the end this obsession for conformity leads to fascism.

How to make God laugh. Tell him your future plans.

People are afraid to face how great a part of life is dependent on luck. It's scary to think so much is out of one's control. There are moments in a match when the ball hits the top of the net and for a split second it can either go forward or fall back. With a little luck it goes forward and you win. Or maybe it doesn't and you lose.

I was trying to balance Soon-Yi's problems with my own, with Dylan, Moses, and Satchel, whom Mia had possession of, complete control over, and a willingness to use them as pawns if and when necessary.

The man who said 'I'd rather be lucky than good' saw deeply into life. People are afraid to face how great a part of life is dependent on luck. It's scary to think so much is out of one's control. There are moments in a match when the ball hits the top of the net and for a split second it can either go forward or fall back. With a little luck it goes forward and you win. Or maybe it doesn't and you lose.

What she seemed to mean was that knowing how much I loved Dylan, she was embarking on a plan to see to it I would not be able to see her anymore.

He couldn't bear the thought that she would want to go to an orgy, much less with or without him.

Toda la gente que se propone enderezar al mundo lo que en realidad quiere es enchuecarlo a su medida. No hay nada más torcido que un enderezador.

El que paga manda. Se lo aprendí tan bien a mi papá que hasta la fecha no he dejado de aplicarlo. Si entiendes eso, todo se hace más fácil. No es cosa de dinero, sino de inversión. El que más invierte tiene la palabra.

Nunca nadie me ha sobornado tanto como la rutina. Todo los días ensayas la misma obra, un día te la aprendes y ahí poco a poquito vas torciéndola a tu gusto. O te la van torciendo a su antojo, que es lo que pasa cuando te la crees.

Uno le cambia el nombre a las personas y a las cosas porque así las convierte en sólo suyas.

So violence is not to be expected of those who exercise reason; such conduct belongs to those who have strength without judgement.

the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.

My agency was pure and miraculous. It conferred power upon me.

Without a driver this bus is lost.

I gave up trying to find out. Any knowledge I might gain was useless. I had no means of controlling where I was going - no rudder, no sails, no motor, some oars, but insufficient brawn.

Until it knows its rank for certain, the animal lives a life of unbearable anarchy.

the establishment of a universal system of public education inevitably changed the relations of education to the state. It is this above all else which has caused the mind of our society to lose its independence, so that there is no power left outside politics to guide modern civilization, when the politicians go astray. For in proportion as education becomes controlled by the state, it becomes nationalized, and in extreme cases the servant of a political party.

For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.

In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

The man who prays is the one who thinks that god has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks that he can instruct god how to put them right.

the unconscious is unknown and unrepresentable and, in being so, maintains by default the idealistic fantasy of gaining conscious meaning and control.

Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.

Capitalism has severed the ties of personal dependence only to revive dependence under cover of bureaucratic rationality.