Quotes About Control

Fear helps us survive. I've spent a larger portion of my life being afraid than I have being in control. But, here I am. Forget this escape idea, son. It won't help you or your family. Play the game. Find a tall tree somewhere. A tree that's survived all the coups and massacres of history. Go to that tree and dig a hole near its roots and bury your pride there.

Evil, he had come to believe, was controllable as long as man had the strength of will to believe in himself.

War, as father of all things, and king, names few to serve as gods, and of the rest makes these men slaves, those free.

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It is difficult to fight against anger; for a man will buy revenge with his soul.

What really corrupts is not power, but a sense of powerlessness.

Treat God like a dangerous loony - keep him calm and stay on his good side.

When I examine my experimental research, I find to my embarrassment I rarely provided a control condition. What could I have possibly learned from these ill-designed experiments? The answer (it surprised me) is that you can test theoretical models without a control condition.

The question is not whether you're frightened or not, but whether you or the fear is in control. If you say, 'I won't be frightened,' and then you experience fear, most likely you'll succumb to it, because you're paying attention to it. The correct thing to tell yourself is, 'If I do get frightened, I will stay in command.'

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

Political freedom would mean liberation of the individuals from politics over which they have no effective control. Similarly

Law and order are always and everywhere the law and order which protect the established hierarchy.

La rationalité technologique de l'univers totalitaire est la forme la plus récente qu'a pu prendre l'idée de Raison.

C gives the programmer what the programmer wants; few restrictions, few complaints... C++ maintains the original spirit of C, that the programmer not the language is in charge.

For manipulation to be most effective, evidence of its presence should be nonexistent... It is essential, therefore, that people who are manipulated believe in the neutrality of their key social institutions.

The tyrant is nothing but a slave turned inside out.

We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.

Government is essentially immoral.

Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.

Wo ein Klima der Ãœberwachung und Bespitzelung herrscht, kann ein freier und offener demokratischer Prozess nicht stattfinden.

Je weiter eine konkrete Tat entfernt ist, umso mehr ist dem Staat erlaubt, um sie zu verhindern.

In einem maßlosen Staat [...] gibt es vielleicht ein wenig mehr Sicherheit, aber ganz sicher sehr viel weniger Freiheit.

Angst macht süchtig nach Strafrecht.

Nirgendwo werden aus vermeintlichen Absurditäten so schnell Normalitäten wie auf dem Gebiet der Inneren Sicherheit.