Quotes About Control

Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching the walls of his dungeon.

The freer man believes he is, the easier it is to indoctrinate him.

In society just as in the soul, when hierarchies abdicate the appetites rule.

Wise politics is the art of invigorating society and weakening the State.

Ideas tyrannize the man who has but few.

The so highly acclaimed "dominion of man over nature" turned out to be merely an enormous capability to kill.

Reformar la sociedad por medio de leyes es el sueño del ciudadano incauto y el preámbulo discreto de toda tiranía. La ley es forma jurídica de la costumbre o atropello a la libertad.

The liberation promised by every invention ends with the growing submission of the man who adopts it to the man who manufactures it.

The political presence of the masses always culminates in a hellish apocalypse.

De statistiek is het werktuig van wie afziet van het begrijpen om te kunnen manipuleren.

Man emerges from the beast when he orders his instincts hierarchically.

The worst [type of] totalitarianism is not that of a state or a nation, but of society: society as the all-encompassing goal of all goals.

Totalitarismus" ist die empirische Realität des "Gemeinwillens" (Volonté générale)

La condición suficiente y necesaria del despotismo es la desaparición de toda especie de autoridad social no conferida por el Estado.

Between the dictatorship of technology and the technology of dictatorship, man no longer finds a crack through which he can slip away.

La política sabia es el arte de vigorizar la sociedad y de debilitar el Estado.

Wird einem Demokraten ein Finger brandig, fällt ihm nur eines ein: Ein Gesetz zu fordern, das das Abschneiden aller Hände anordnet.

The society of the future: slavery without masters.

The modern mentality does not conceive that order can be imposed without resorting to police regulations.

Die Tyrannei eines Individuums ist dem Despotismus des Gesetzes vorzuziehen, denn der Tyrann ist verwundbar und das Gesetz unkörperlich.

Modern man accepts any yoke, as long as the hand imposing it is impersonal.

Die Fanatiker der Freiheit enden als Theoretiker der Polizei. Die Doktrin Fichtes zum Beispiel gipfelt in einer Theorie des Reisepasses.

Power more surely corrupts the man who covets it than the man who exercises it.

No beneficiary of slaves is supporter of birth control.