Quotes About Control

Thus Jesus shares with many Jewish authors of the time the view that men are to take responsibility for their sexuality, not women, and not seek to cover and control them. Jesus belongs with those who do not see women as a danger or threat, though clearly not all his disciples shared this stance.

The bee is domesticated but not tamed.

Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile.

Learn to control ego. Humans hold their dogmas and biases too tightly, and we only think that our opponents are dogmatic! But we all need criticism. Criticism is the only known antidote to error.

the greatest tyrants over women are women.

As long as I count the votes, what are you going to do about it?

all you have to do is kill every citizen at birth and then, by God, you're left with the perfect ?

This is our country, too, and we can goddam well control it if we learn to use the tools. —HST, 1969

Tajna osvajanja žena leži u prora?unatom ignoriranju.

The greedy and the power-hungry will always look for ways to break the rules, or twist them to their advantage.

Information is not like money or any other commodity. The cracks that it can slip through are almost infinitely small, and it can be duplicated at almost zero cost. Soon information will be like air, like the weather, and as easy to control.

Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.

Several travelers noted that American masters wanted above all to be "popular" with their slaves—a characteristically American need that was probably rare in Brazil or the Caribbean.

humans are no less eager than in the past to dominate, degrade, humiliate, and control—often in order to confirm their own sense of pride and superiority. (Adam Smith wrote in 1776 that this was the main motive for slavery.) But

The gods are very dangerous, and they can do bad things to human beings.

What Your Speed Means

The best surveillance is when everyone suspects that they're being watched all the time. The government then doesn't even have to watch the cameras—they need only let people believe someone might be watching.

Even in Jericho, the oldest-known farming village, the walls, which were once believed to have been fortifications, are now thought to have been an early form of flood control.

Our destinies are our own, if we have the courage to take control of them.

But of all the animals, man holds the fate of the world in his hands.

You can't make someone love you." She held out her right hand to flash a ring with a gaudy stone set in it. "But you can imprison him in a ring for not loving you. See?

A fourth way to take control of the downturn is to maximize the cash available to you. Cash is always a good friend to have, especially during the tough times.

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The power of collecting and disbursing money at pleasure is the most dangerous power that can be entrusted to man