Quotes About Control

To protect patrilineal descent, men have for centuries tried to control women's sexuality. Although man needs woman, he tries to keep her power under control, legislating against women's free use of her sex in case she compromises the fragile but tenacious social structure of our patriarchal society.

Some men are so macho they'll get you pregnant just to kill a rabbit.

Es imposible impedir la guerra cuando los ejércitos comenzaron a marchar.

Men who love power are not only dominated, as is generally supposed, by an appetite for wealth and honours. Above all they are influenced by an objective taste for the creation of events, for controlling their occurrence, for acting upon the world with effectiveness and for being always in the right. Wealth and honours are no more than the signs and tools of their influence.

Silence your dog, captain!

Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.

In all identification, elements of sadomasochism are present.

En el silencio mandan los ruidos.

The promise of blockchain technology for gun control continues to be stonewalled, just like other attempts at reining in the availability of guns throughout America.

To preserve itself, male dominance is obliged to prize competition and central control and to turn away from making adjustments to the constantly shifting, personal needs or the problems that relate to women and their children.

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy." Woodrow Wilson, twenty-eighth President of the United States of America. Served 1913–1921. President during World War I, only President to be interred within Washington, DC, at the National Cathedral.

Zigzag... don't bunch up. Weave like a drunk on New Year's... Got it?

Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace.

She had been in situations like this, where people said, Convince me, and in none of those had they actually wanted to be convinced. She could lay down a perfect argument and they just invented new bullshit on the spot to justify why the answer was still no. When people said, Convince me, she knew it didn't mean they had an open mind. It meant they had power and wanted to enjoy it a minute.

To people at the top, the scariest thing is how many people there are below.

following the playbook of strongmen such as Viktor Orban, Vladimir Putin, and Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who silenced the press not by imposing censorship but by imposing financial pressure on independent news organizations to either force them out of business or into the hands of friendly owners.47

This is how all social, ideological, or religious movements police their members-by making clear that agreement will be rewarded with greater social standing and support, and dis-agreement punished with ostracism.

Technology… the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.

Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

Bethmann-Hollweg era davvero irremovibile non tanto sulle sue richieste territoriali – cercò, a un certo punto, di dissuadere il Kaiser dall'insistere sull'annessione del Belgio – quanto sull'intenzione di imporre una unione doganale sul continente: «è sottinteso che l'unione doganale dovrà rendere possibile il controllo della Germania sull'Europa»

Machiavelli observed that 'wars begin when you will, but do not end when you please'.

Es justamente el espíritu dominador de la naturaleza el que continuamente reivindica la superioridad de la naturaleza en la competencia

The very idea of truth has been reduced to the purpose of a useful tool in the control of nature, and the realization of the infinite potentialities inherent in man has been relegated to the status of a luxury. Thought that does not serve the interests of any established group or is not pertinent to the business of any industry has no place, is considered vain or superfluous.