Quotes About Control

Psychologist Daniel M. Wegner has gone so far as to argue that conscious will is an illusion—that despite appearances, what causes my finger to rise is not my consciously willing that it rise but something else.

The state is or can be master of money, but in a free society it is master of very little else.

No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine.

Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship.

The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.

Do whatever you can to restore people's sense of having some control over their situation.

The question to ask yourself is this: What can I give back to balance what's been taken away? Status, turf, team membership, recognition, roles? If people feel that the change has robbed them of control over their futures, can you find some way to give them back a feeling of control?

Plans are immensely reassuring to most people, not just because they contain information but because they exist.

Hands, do what you're bid:Bring the balloon of the mindThat bellies and drags in the windInto its narrow shed.

The years like great black oxen tread the world And God, the herdsman, goads them on behind.

One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.

Notwithstanding our boastful assertions to the world, for nearly a century, that our government was based on the consent of the people, it rests upon force, as much as any government that ever existed. - Robert E. Lee

As to the power which money gives, it is that of brute force, it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet, and of the bribed press, tongue and pen.

I am monarch of all I survey,My right there is none to dispute.

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Mongols were uneducated tribesmen who believed in enjoying life's simpler pleasures. Ghengis Khan expressed their philosophy most succinctly. 'Happiness,' he is recorded to have said, 'lies in conquering one's enemies, driving them in front of oneself, in taking their property, in savouring their despair, in outraging their wives and daughters.

The master of Delhi, they knew, was always the master of Hindustan.

to stop squabbling and cooperate with each other. But both men did agree that this was the right moment to revive Maratha power in Hindustan, and that the best way of cementing this would be to install Shah Alam back in Delhi under their joint protection, and so secure control of his affairs.21 The master of Delhi, they knew, was always the master of Hindustan.

the Afghans, were to a man executed on Durrani's orders. The Peshwa Ballaji Rao died broken-hearted soon after: 'his mind had become confused and he began to revile and curse his people'.95 But a decade later, Durrani was dead and the Marathas had begun to recover their strength. They were now back in control of much of central and western India, and ambitious to extend their influence from the Kaveri to the Indus.

The three great armies of the Mughal world had come together to defeat the Company and expel it from India. When instead it was the Mughals that were defeated, the Company was left the dominant military force in north-east India. Buxar confirmed the Company's control of Bengal and the coast and opened the way for them to extend their influence far inland to the west.

How did the Indian Army behave when it got to Hyderabad?' I asked. 'When an army invades any country – whether it's Alexander the Great, Timur, Hitler or Mussolini – when it gets into a town, you know what the soldiery does. It's very difficult for the officers to control them. I can't tell you how many were raped or killed, but I saw the bodies of many. Old scores were paid off across the state.' I

The corporation has evolved to serve the interests of whoever controls it, at the expense of whoever does not.

The world is governed by opinion.

It is safe to say that if the Communists took over the Sahara Desert tomorrow, two things would happen. First, nothing. And second, with their centralized approach to the market, there would be a shortage of sand.