Quotes About Control

He said he inspected her vagina and found that she was no longer a virgin, whereupon he strangled her in order to save her from the same kind of life that he had.

If a man wants to dominate a woman, he will demand sex, and if a woman wants to dominate a man, she will refuse him sex.

He did not want the girlfriends any longer but he also did not want anyone else to have them. This is yet another example of a serial killer treating his victims like objects because of a lack of socialisation during the latency phase.

Bondage is a pleasure of the mind just as much as it is of the flesh.

For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.

Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening.

We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's.

Órdenes; para eso se inventó el teléfono, para capturar a los enemigos del gobierno!

En esta España de calzonazos —decía— los curas manejan a las mujeres y las mujeres a los hombres...

Tanr? art?k sizi ne yapaca??n? bilemez olunca tutar, öldürür.

La vida era el peor tirano conocido. Cuando la vida le agarra a uno, sobra todo poder de decisión.

We today live on a planet of "robots" directed and managed by the Jews towards a tragic fatal end, towards the abyss and chaos.

Tenho medo que a liberdade se torne um vício

The mark of a person who is in control of consciousness is the ability to focus attention at will, to be oblivious to distractions, to concentrate for as long as it takes to achieve a goal, and not longer. And the person who can do this usually enjoys the normal course of everyday life.

The ultimate test for the ability to control the quality of experience is what a person does in solitude, with no external demands to give structure to attention.

When adversity threatens to paralyze us, we need to reassert control by finding a new direction in which to invest psychic energy, a direction that lies outside the reach of external forces. When every aspiration is frustrated, a person still must seek a meaningful goal around which to organize the self. Then, even though that person is objectively a slave, subjectively he is free. Solzhenitsyn

When adversity threatens to paralyze us, we need to reassert control by finding a new direction in which to invest psychic energy, a direction that lies outside the reach of external forces. When every aspiration is frustrated, a person still must seek a meaningful goal around which to organize the self. Then, even though that person is objectively a slave, subjectively he is free.

Power returns to the person when rewards are no longer relegated to outside forces.

Everything we experience—joy or pain, interest or boredom—is represented in the mind as information. If we are able to control this information, we can decide what our lives will be like.

Cicero once wrote that to be completely free one must become a slave to a set of laws. In other words, accepting limitations is liberating.

If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now.

The mark of a person who is in control of consciousness is the ability to focus attention at will, to be oblivious to distractions, to concentrate for as long as it takes to achieve a goal, and not longer.

If the functions of the body are left to atrophy, the quality of life becomes merely adequate, and for some even dismal. But if one takes control of what the body can do, and learns to impose order on physical sensations, entropy yields to a sense of enjoyable harmony in consciousness.

The most important step in emancipating oneself from social controls is the ability to find rewards in the events of each moment.