Quotes About Control

It seemed that the political elites were striving, with admiration for George Orwell and rare unanimity, to ensure that the totalitarian state in the novel 1984 would be realized no later than fifty years after the author predicted.

Nazis and communists have a lot in common,' Alex said. 'They want the same thing – absolute control, unqualified power.

Yet we humans have the hubris to think we can build eternal cities, stop the aging process, control the climate

Certain events are lightly sketched on the future and can be erased. Others are woven into the fabric of all that is to come and resist being unraveled.

Even if I were in charge of making policy,' Zachariah said, 'I'd take the same course Dr Tamaguchi has.

shore of truth that they couldn't even see it. They were everywhere in our time, controlled by those who taught them to fear what didn't threaten them and receive with gladness those ideas and forces that would rob them of purpose, of meaning, of security—and sooner than later would take away their

When you look ito the still, deep water, you can feel it looking back, trying to come up with the proper punishment. Fucking water, who made you the boss?

When you don't own an aspect of yourself it runs your life.

Humans, as attractive and awesomely created as they are, tend to believe that events occur in their lives randomly, with little or no meaning. They often overlook the obvious, that God is in control.

It was unnerving. She'd looked at him and had the uncontrollable urge to weep. Thus far she'd managed to control her emotions. Thank God. She didn't even want to imagine what he would think of her if she started weeping for absolutely no reason.

If God is your copilot, trade places.

The choices we make, or fail to make, about which tasks we hand off to machines shape our lives and the place we make for ourselves in the world.

Automation turns us from actors into observers. Instead of manipulating the yoke, we watch the screen. That shift may make our lives easier, but it can also inhibit the development of expertise.

It was beyond frustrating to have circumstances always dictating her life. When would she ever get to make a choice about how her life looked?

Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.

There's never been a war in the history of the world that wasn't started by the wealthy for the wealthy

harness your own power though what you keep to yourself

It was a strategy as old as time. Make people desperate enough and they obeyed.

China needs to control these sea routes to guarantee its own oil supplies. Although that is understandable, it comes at a cost to Japan. Japan must become engaged now to avoid that calamity.

Un despote ne doit pas obtenir du crédit.

It was ordained that you would have the title to the thing and I would have the thing itself.

If I opened up your head and ran a hot soldering iron around in your brain, I might turn you into someone like that.

Howling, are you?" the Indian said. "There it is for you, then. That's what happens, that's what they say: There's not a wolf alive that can't tame a man.

Self-pity makes tyrants, it's the defining characteristic of brutal regimes