Quotes About Control

Democracy can itself be as tyrannical as a dictatorship, since it is the extent, not the source, of government power that impinges on freedom.

Pouring out liquor is like burning books.

If we don't discipline ourselves, the world will do it for us.

The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.

Addictions [...] started out like magical pets, pocket monsters. They did extraordinary tricks, showed you things you hadn't seen, were fun. But came, through some gradual dire alchemy, to make decisions for you. Eventually, they were making your most crucial life-decisions. And they were [...] less intelligent than goldfish.

Using no control and using humor will build a relationship and make a dent to where the client puts the counselor in their quality world and then begins to relate and seek out the counselor. Effective therapy begins with the acceptance of the therapist into the client's quality world.

Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions.

Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind.

What power there is in the word my.

The rules!" shouted Ralph, "you're breaking the rules!" "Who cares?

Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood.

is not altogether a matter of fanfaronade when the American citizen calls himself a "sovereign." A member of a free democracy is, in a sense, a sovereign. He

Each great company will be known as controlled by one master mind. The reason for this lies in the great superiority of personal management over management by boards and committees. This

They seem to think that interference is good if only they interfere. In

unless restrained by checks and guarantees. There is an insolence of wealth, as there is an insolence of rank. A plutocracy might be even far worse than an aristocracy. Aristocrats

The reason why man is not altogether a brute is, because he has learned to accumulate capital, to use capital, to advance to a higher organization of society, to develop a completer co-operation, and so to win greater and greater control over Nature.

i suspect that the first dictator of this country will be called coach.

But they say that sexuality can be dangerously Dionysian. Nowhere do we need order more than at any orgy.

They try to thrive. To multiply. To make murder a method of management.

More and more I knew my budding world was ruined if he were free in it. As a specimen Mr. Wallace might be my pride. Glory to him in a jar. But free! Better to release the sweet moving tiger or the delicate snake, the monumental elephant. I was just a castaway to be devoured.

yes, words were superior; they maintained a superior control; they touched without your touching; they were at once the bait, the hook, the line, the pole, and the water in between.

By its nature, government was either small and personal, something on the level of a town hall meeting, or it was tyranny, with the few ruling the many for their own benefit, no matter how representational that government might be in theory.

El Buda comprendió que nuestro sufrimiento no es un mero producto de la casualidad, sino que tiene una causa, como la tienen todos los fenómenos. La ley de causa y efecto —kamma— es universal y fundamental a la existencia. No hay causas que caigan fuera de nuestro control.

Todo lo que encontramos en la vida, es la resultante de nuestras acciones; por consiguiente, cada persona puede ser dueña de su destino haciéndose dueña de sus acciones. Cada uno es responsable de las acciones que dan lugar al propio sufrimiento. Cada uno posee los medios para acabar con el sufrimiento que provocan sus acciones.