Quotes About Control

Governments want to control information. To do this, they have elaborate systems for promoting themselves via propaganda departments and for ensuring confidentiality with official-secrets laws. There are good reasons for these: people need information, and national security deserves secrecy.

Mission Control in Houston receives our e-mails through a satellite and then sends them out to our family and friends. Likewise, any e-mails written to us go through the Mission Control, and then they send them up to us via a satellite.

I don't watch a lot of T.V. I only watch things via Netflix, so I only watch the things that I'm choosing to watch.

Democracy in China is like Viagra; no such thing as free elections.

I've learned that you simply can't control those bad vibes.

I don't use producers, I am the producer. I use an engineer as a tool, vicariously.

The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.

I like to eat chocolate and pizza - that's my vice! - just like everyone else, but if I do it I have to keep it under control.

I'm a pretty controlled and disciplined person, but my real vice is buying plants and food shopping.

In a network situation, a vice president, while he's shaving, can decide your history.

Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.

I do think we need to at least register artificial intelligence units to be able to monitor and control them. Because we want to control them and not vice versa.

Government, as it was forced upon mankind by their vices, so has it commonly been the creature of their ignorance and mistake.

Of course, looking tough on inflation is part of any central banker's job description: if investors believe that inflation is going to get out of control, you end up with higher interest rates and capital flight, and a vicious circle quickly ensues.

If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim.

A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.

Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship.

To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it.

A film actor is just a victim of directors and editors.

If right and left are competing to be the biggest victim, who is competing to be the government?

Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

I'm always uneasy with messages. I think if there is a message, it's about taking control of your life. Not becoming a victim. Be true to yourself. In essence it's about love in the drug culture.

The BBC is a victim of its own independence.

You're not a victim of your divorce. What you decide to do with yourself and your personal life after your marriage ends is your decision, and completely under your control.