Quotes About Control

Give the people the illusion of democracy, with a few elected councils that've been given power over local trivia, while you control anything that really matters directly through the economy.

And it was quite difficult to insert, wasn't it, girls? You know, I actually had to hold them down to do it, there was so much girly squealing and wiggling. And look at them now, happy to do as they're told.

If you don't call them off, I will personally rip your fucking arkship apart molecule by molecule with all of you in it," Gore was yelling. "You think the Void is a bad thing? Do you, huh? You believe that? Because let me tell you: It is your mommy with her titty out for you to suck on compared to me.

You are responsible to your political paymasters, and their eternal quest for the status quo.

He was readying his energistic powers to deal with her bodyguards, who had now caught her up, when she did her level best to ram his testicles into his eye sockets via his intestinal tract.

Dac? R?zboiul Starflyer îl înv??ase ceva era c? evenimentele îi conduc pe oameni, nu invers.

The military do so love shiny new technology, there's always so many ways to abuse it.

Exploring the meaning of others' actions is then a precursor of children's ability to label and find meaningful their own psychological experiences. This ability arguably underlies the capacities for affect regulation, impulse control, self-monitoring, and the experience of self-agency—the building blocks of the organization of the self.

I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality.

One did not have to be a Jesuit to recognize that to control the schools was to control the future.

H]umor has, among other duties, the task of controlling anxieties, of mastering threats, by increasing their distance and reducing their dimensions.

Much as they feared democracy, they determined to shape it. Their motto became "Let us educate our new masters".

Or on the whim of a deity. As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods.

If your audience has a negative story about you or your product or business, you'd better confront it. As famed author Salman Rushdie once said, "Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, the power to retell it, rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts." Once you lose control of your own story, you'll need double the muscle to get that power back.

Confronted with people who have power, and who enjoy using it, I turn into a different person, a baser and meaner one.

Do you think that people determine their own lives, Smilla?" "The details," I say, "but the big things happen on their own.

You rest now. Rest for longer than you are used to resting. Make a stillness around you, a field of peace. Your best work, the best time of your life will grow out of this peace. And don't worry, compa, you will be rowdy and out of control again. You will throw off every kind of light. You can't help yourself.

Quit trying to manage your fears, and face them. Walk right into them— and realize that your control has been an illusion all along. You need Jesus every second.

Satan loves to name you, because names catch people, control people, and shape people. This world love[s] to name us. We're susceptible to names because [we believe] we're orphaned and widowed--we're so desperate, we believe them. But the one we let name us is our idol...our god our father and groom.

By...handing children the fruit of the tree of knowledge unmediated by adult wisdom, we have abandoned our young to powers and influences which we cannot control, and whose strength we do not know. To leave a child unsupervised in front of a television set is no less dangerous than giving it neat gin, or putting it within reach of narcotics.

We should all let our inner voices take control from time to time. Let them have their say. We let them take control when we're driving down the motorway sometimes, and they don't do a bad job. Maybe we all need to have a little more faith in ourselves.

I think you can be cynical about religion on occasion, and certainly skeptical about the degree to which some people use religion to manipulate other people.

Los seres humanos nunca son libres de otras fuerzas que condicionan sus vidas. El problema de la libertad no es la elección entre tener un dueño o no tenerlo; es el problema de quién es ese dueño.

“I was afraid,” Jacob answered, “for I thought you would take your daughters from me by force.