Quotes About Control

A man is only as strong as that which makes him angry.

In any broth, the scum [politicians] always rises to the top.

You have lived too long in the forest, Laitha; you do not understand the world. Men like to think they control it but this is nonsense. Women rule, as they always have. They tell a man he is god-like. The man believes them and is in their thrall. For without them to tell him, he becomes merely a man.

As long as you react, your enemy holds your destiny in the palm of his hand. When you force him to react, you hold his neck in yours.

Neither political nor monetary sovereignty can be shared with private interests.

What does Facebook want from a private currency so much that they're offering to lose money to run it? The obvious answer is: personal data — because Facebook always wants personal data. Facebook's business is selling personal data to advertisers.

Captain Skyler thinks Councilor Layton is always trying to divide people so he can control them, but Councilor Layton says that Captain Skyler wants to keep everybody in one place so he can control them. It's an argument I'm not sure I understand.

Totalitarians never cease trying to rewrite history to their their own liking, but history is a stubborn old bastard that always outlives these feeble fantasies.

combat is no place for martinets.

Rarely was Richelieu accused of leniency. In his hubris, he was alleged to have said, "Give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, and I will find something there to hang him."14

I had a couple of restaurants, nothing too grand. But I'd already worked out – I'm not an idiot – you either run money or else it runs you. If you keep your money … if you're frightened to spend it, you become its prisoner. OK, sure, when you're making it, be as mean as you like. But when you spend it, just give. Give. Show your contempt for it.

No single move traps the king.

capital has become very sophisticated about absorbing people's free time because it doesn't want you to have free time because you might THINK...

Gallimard: You have to do what I say! I'm conjuring you up in my mind! Song: Rene, I've never done what you've said. Why should it be any different in your mind?

Republicans lost control of the narrative because they never held the Democrats accountable for their betrayal.

The future is a work of prejudice and malice inextricably bound with generosity and hope. Its fate is unalterably out of our control. Insofar as this work is manageable at all, it is carried out now and forever under the terrible anarchy of freedom that God has imposed on his children and will not take back.

all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber barons' cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

There is an aphorism about Prussian militarism, coined by Mirabeau, which aptly fits the pre-Hitler Reichswehr: 'Prussia isn't a country with an army – it's an army with a country!

We need a dictator who is a genius, if we are to arise again.

Decide the outer boundaries of the kanban system. It is often best to limit this to the immediate span of political control. Do not force visualization, transparency, and WIP limits on any department that does not volunteer to collaborate.

The ego corrupts our mindset in five ways: (a) It chooses what we focus on, (b) it makes what we see all about us, (c) it concludes that all negative experiences are due to a deficiency within ourselves, (d) it magnifies the relevance of our focus, and (e) it causes us to believe that we can think our way out of a situation that is beyond our control or understand something that is unknowable.

Politics and religion have always worked in tandem as the primary forces that control humanity. Politics compels compliance by authority, while religion draws compliance by attraction. When these two combine forces, their power becomes virtually absolute.

That's why God is the answer to all our fears. If God is good and loving (and He is), and if God is all-powerful (and He is), and if God has a purpose and a plan that include His children (and He does), and if we are His children (as I hope you are), then there is no reason to fear anything, for God is in control of everything.

He arose and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, "Peace, be still!" And the wind ceased and there was a great calm. MARK 4:39