Quotes About Control

The EPA was saying no more and no less than this. It was saying that protecting lambs required the government to control the wolves—and government control was what the Cold Warriors most feared. It was what they had spent their lives fighting.

In 2003, the EPA reported to Congress that the overall cost of air pollution control during the previous ten years was between $8 billion and $9 billion, while the benefits were estimated from $101 billion to $119 billion—more than ten times as great.175 Singer's "billion-dollar solution to a million-dollar problem" was just plain wrong.

However, when pesticides are sprayed over large agricultural areas, they kill a large fraction of the total insect population, ensuring that the hardy survivors breed only with other hardy survivors; the very next generation may display resistance. The more extensive the agricultural use, the more likely bugs are to evolve resistance rapidly, and the less effective the pesticide is likely to be when you need it for disease control.

As an independent source of authority and knowledge, science has always had the capacity to challenge ruling powers' ability to control people by controlling their beliefs. Indeed, it has the power to challenge anyone who wishes to preserve, protect, or defend the status quo.

Those "irresponsible" environmentalists had been right: the emissions had not come down in harmless traces, but as acid rain. This could have been avoided had the power companies done the right thing and controlled pollution at the source, rather than attempting to get around air quality standards by building taller smokestacks and attacking environmentalists.

key attribute of the period was that power did not reside in the hands of those who understood the climate system, but rather in political, economic, and social institutions that had a strong

You won't take anything from me that I don't want to give you, Dalton. And that's a fact.

I am the kind of man who takes what he wants. I am the kind of man who fights for what he has. I am the man who fucks his wife on his dead ex-fiancée's bed, because the past can't contain me and I mold the future to my liking.

fuck fate. We make our own destinies.

There are two levers for moving man -- interest and fear.

in this life we are either kings or pawns emperors and fools

There is only one thing in this world, and that is to keep acquiring money and more money, power and more power. All the rest is meaningless.

In this life, we are either kings or pawns, Emperors or fools

I love power like a musician loves music.

Men are ruled by toys

There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest

C'est avec des hochets que l'on mène les hommes." Napoléon Bonaparte à propos de la légion d'honneur, qu'il institua en 1802.

L'ambition de dominer sur les esprits est la plus forte de toutes les passions.

Your mental attitude is someting you can control outright and you must use self-discipline until you create a Positive Mental Attitude -- your mental attitude attracts to you everything that makes you what you are.

I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets.

Put your iron hand in a velvet glove.

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.

I am the instrument of providence, she will use me as long as I accomplish her designs, then she will break me like a glass.