Quotes About Control

And I wonder---if everything's connected, does that mean that everything can be manipulated and controlled centrally by those who know how to pull strings. . . .

In short, controlling more resources means you are likely to have more progeny surviving to future generations: Team aggression is one way that both chimpanzees and humans have hit upon to reap that evolutionary reward.

Again and again, we see how cultures and religions frame women's sexuality as both powerful and dangerous, and as something that must be kept under control.

the male desire to control women's sexual activity can be traced to efforts to ensure paternity. This impulse lurks behind even the most extreme or bizarre expressions of religious obsession, misogyny, and sexual repression.

The great city of New York wields more of the destinies of this great nation that five times the population of any other portion of the country.

A man who enjoys responsibility usually gets it. A man who merely likes exercising authority usually loses it.

The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.

Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power.

The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.

She tried to slip her hand inside his pants. Feeling as if he'd just slammed into wall and had some sense knocked back into his head, Urich gripped her wrist, frantic to make her stop before she unleashed more than his gender.

Never, ever allow yourself to feel. Feelings kill.

STOP IT! YOU'RE ALL BEHAVING LIKE ANIMALS!' I shouted so hard my throat immediately began to hurt. 'WORSE THAN ANIMALS – LIKE BLANKERS!

They will always allow it. It's only men who need ownership. The gods allow more freedom.

Jeffrey looked at being an alpha a lot like having a hard-on. If he walked around with a stiff one in his pants all the time, it was uncomfortable for him and just about anyone else he happened upon. But if he had it when needed—well, it could be one hell of a good time.

Firestone's comprehensive vision of a future, more progressive era defined by greater reproductive control seems strongly influenced by the tradition that equated technological innovation with social progress through greater mastery of human evolution— a tradition we might call progressive biofuturism.

Das Wort Gottes verbündet sich nicht mit dem Aufruhr des Mißtrauens, dem Aufruhr von unten. Sondern es regiert.

He had always assumed it was a flaw in people, a human failing, that created this need to believe in something beyond the ordinary. Religion existed to control society, to monitor those without the capacity to think things through for themselves, to provide promises and shimmering images in the sky, so that the urges of the masses could be calmed and regulated. What, after all, did the word 'faith' connote, except a willing blindness to the lack of actual proof?

Guadalupe Fuentes: --They're not paid to kill honest people, to shoot for no good reasons. Rubenia Fuentes: --Ah, my little girl, then why do you think they give them those big guns that look like tree branches and are larger than they themselves? To shoot, baby, to shoot. Because if they don't, that gives rise to talk that the authorities are useless, are nothing more than decoration.

What was knowledge, what was truth, beauty, love, idealism, philosophy, or religion when compared to man's desire to control an infinitesimal spot in the fields of Cosmos for an inestimably minute fragment of time?

It was apparent that materialism was in complete control of the economic structure, the final objective of which was for the individual to become part of a system providing an economic security at the expense of the human soul, mind, and body.

I've already established my (political)machinery. It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it.

the media are not the holders of power, but they constitute by and large the space where power is decided.

You are being manipulated when someone reduces, by any means, your ability to be your own judge of what you do.

The manipulative behavior prompted by these expectations can also be seen in the general nonclinical population. These childish expectations and their consequent behavior deny us much of our dignity and self-respect as human beings. If we have the same expectations about ourselves as our manipulators do, we surrender to them our dignity and self-respect, the responsibility for governing our own existence, and the control over our own behavior.