Quotes About Control

Words spoken, you are a slave to; those not said, you are the master of.

Love does not exist, it's like religion, the state wants you to believe in that kind of crap so they can control you, and f**k your head up.

For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.

Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.

Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.

Society now hovers over mankind like a crushing weight, sometimes it seems with a willful malevolence.

Was the process of institutionalization both so powerful and subtle, that I could be aware of it and yet be unable to resist?

If the players were armed with guns, there wouldn't be stadiums large enough to hold the crowds.

The abuse of alcohol," Mr. Parrish said in a solemn, preacher-like voice, as he reached for his glass, "is the one thing that puts Man above the animal.

Considering what human beings do and have done to human beings (and to other living things as well) ... I can never imagine what the devil people think computers can add to the horrors.

The spell of power never quite releases its hold.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

Humans have different emotional states that are here to serve us, if anything be redirected. Not to be tamed.

Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden.

Let dogs delight to bark and bite, ?For God hath made them so; Let bears and lions growl and fight, ?For 'tis their nature too. But, children, you should never let ?Such angry passions rise; Your little hands were never made ?To tear each other's eyes.

Schlimme Gedanken kann man zurückschieben wie einen dunklen Vorhang, aber heller wird es dadurch nicht.

What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.

Faith is the belief that this life is not our only chance. Wavering of faith means beginning to believe in this life and wanting to live it, denying all duties and dashing off uncontrolled.

You are a fine and talented woman, whose potential is yet to be realized given the love and support and luck we all need. Where you lost the will to fight for what is yours, where you gave away control of your life, is the mystery you are now unraveling. When you get it all back, hold on to it.

The underlying assumption that human nature is basically the same at all times, everywhere, and obeys eternal laws beyond human control, is a conception that only a handful of bold thinkers have dared to question.

If Orwell had a chance to write 1984 from the vantage point of 1984 instead of 1948, perhaps he would have seen the class of hackers instead of the proles as a threat to Big Brother's rule.

Can one move an empire as if it were a house?

Absolute power is universally coveted, though all know that an absolute ruler has an anxious life and usually a violent death.

By learning to obey, you will know how to command.