Quotes About Control

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.

Nancy cut him off. "Larry wouldn't let her. We

Like poles on tightropes, temperament makes the difference between slips and safe arrivals.

NON SUFFICIT ORBIS," a medal struck for Philip proclaimed in 1583, after he'd taken over Portugal and its overseas colonies: "The World Is Not Enough.

Lenin had no such qualms: The masses were too stupid and too blind to be allowed to proceed in the direction of their own choosing. . . . [T]hey could only be saved by being ruthlessly ordered by leaders who had acquired a capacity for knowing how to organize the liberated slaves into a rational planned system.

What worries you masters you.

You've got to learn in life, you've got to learn it quick and keep it for the rest of your life: pull your own strings, and have no puppetmaster – and – habits – are – puppetmasters.

Man might defined as modern largely to the extent that he attempts to control, as opposed to adjust himself to, nature.

The nest of college-birds are three, / Law, Physic and Divinity; / And while these three remain combined, / They keep the world oppressed and blind / . . . Now is the time to be set free, / From priests' and Doctors' slavery.

an epidemic so extreme that New York City had required people to obtain passes to travel.

I am Public Opinion. All men fear me!

Man might be defined as "modern" largely to the extent that he attempts to control, as opposed to adjust himself to, nature

Clifford Adams recalled, "They stopped people from communicating, from going to churches, closed the schools, . . . closed all the saloons. . . . Everything was quiet.

But unlike other life forms (if a virus is considered a life form), a virus does not even do that itself. It invades cells that have energy and then, like some alien puppet master, it subverts them, takes them over, forces them to make thousands, and in some cases hundreds of thousands, of new viruses. The power to do this lies in their genes. •

Those in power, historians have observed, often sought security in imposing order, which gave them some feeling of control, some feeling that the world still made sense.

As George Loewenstein, an economist at Carnegie Mellon, points out, "There is little evidence beyond fallible introspection supporting the standard assumption of complete volitional control of behavior.

The Rule teaches that if we take control of our lives, if we are intentional and careful in how we spend the hours of each irreplaceable day, if we discipline ourselves to live in a balanced and thankful way, we will create from our experiences, whatever they may be, the best possible life. Surely this knowledge is as invaluable now as it was in the sixth century.

Education can no longer be the sole property of the state.

Over no nation does the press hold a more absolute control than over the people of America, for the universal education of the poorest classes makes every individual a reader.

I've never done acid, finding it hard to go willingly to a place that could be frightening, hellish, and totally beyond my control. A place much like high school.

Charter schools are just public schools on a slightly longer leash. A dog on a long leash is still a dog on a leash.

I believe in local control of education.

This mental space is occupied and everything is mine.

When the state or federal government control the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens.