Quotes About Control

Contrary to common belief even among the educated, Huxley and Orwell did not prophesy the same thing. Orwell warns that we will be overcome by an externally imposed oppression. But in Huxley's vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. As he saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

A bureacrat armed with a computer is the unacknowledged legislator of our age, and a terrible burden to bear. We cannot dismiss the possibility that, if Adolf Eichmann had been able to say that it was not he but a battary of computers that directed the Jews to the appropriate crematoria, he may never have been asked to answer for his actions.

Just because you put higher-octane gasoline in your car doesn't mean you can break the speed limit. The speed limit's still 65.

The strong live off the weak and the clever live off the strong.

Lying is about controlling someone else's reality, hoping that what they don't know won't hurt you.

We can bring in all the guns and drugs we need and bring out all the bodies of people we don't.

The household revolved around Matthias's power, his anger, and obedience to him in all things.

the most common cause of death among alpha males was ego.

I am the captain of my soul.

I AM THE MASTER OF MY FATE AND THE CAPTAIN OF MY DESTINY.

I realized that they could take everything from me except my mind and my heart. They could not take those things. Those things I still had control over. And I decided not to give them away.

Losing a sense of time is an easy way to lose one's grip and even one's sanity.

Crime must be brought under control... Freedom without civility, freedom without the ability to live in peace, was not true freedom at all.

Tanto la ley como la filosofía plantean la pregunta: "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" (¿Quién vigila a los vigilantes?).

The secret to success is to own nothing, but control everything.

agarrou-o pelo braço, numa energia tão inesperada e viril, que ele se deixou dominar.

We don't have to worry," she said quietly. "God is in control. He's bigger than this. He's bigger than the enemy. He's already won this battle.

Anna's illusion of control had been smashed years before with the sudden, meaningless death of her husband. In the years since, she'd made an effort not to give in to the need to put the pieces back together, but to see and know and accept with some degree of grace that life is meaningless. There is no Grand Plan. Everything doesn't happen for the best. One can knock till one's knuckles are bloody and the door may not be opened.

To name a thing was to own, control and understand it.

Anger, real red-hot anger, was not okay for females. Most learned to repress it so successfully that they didn't even know it was there till it erupted full-blown. It was one of the many things that made dealing with women more challenging than dealing with men. Women's anger went from zero to sixty in sixty seconds—no warning signs, no time to get out of the way.

There are no policemen in an anarchy, only soldiers.

Now, finally, the earth was hers with no taint of Heaven.

Rape was about violence, hate and dominance. Sex had little to do with it.

There is an enormous difference between attention directed objectively and attention directed subjectively, and the capacity to change your future depends on the latter. When you are able to control the movements of your attention in the subjective world, you can modify or alter your life as you please. But this control cannot be achieved if you allow your attention to be attracted constantly from without. Each day, set yourself the task of