Quotes About Control

Without a belief in a fair and moral universe, a sense of control of one's fate, a coherent sense of self, and a continuous personal narrative, life makes no sense. Living becomes a pointless exercise of getting through the day. People reeling from trauma are thrown into a crisis of meaning that goes far beyond disillusionment; they are plunged into an abyss of despair."18

Don't think a woman can fully understand the power a man feels when he takes." (Witt Long)

Hell," Tony Bonelli tells me, "is having no control." Tony's

doubted that men would give up their power without a vicious fight.

The world is made of stuff and that stuff behaves in certain predictable ways; if you master the rules, you master the stuff.

It might seem perverse, but the CEO is usually the last to know. With great power comes great ignorance.

The future is a major abstraction, riddled with a million vibrating variables you can't control. The best information you'll ever have about a decision is at the moment of execution.

Questions bring options, decrees burn them.

You'll often hear that people don't like change, but that's not quite right. People have no problem with change they asked for. What people don't like is forced change—change they didn't request on a timeline they didn't choose. Your "new and improved" can easily become their "what the fuck?" when it is dumped on them as a surprise.

Freedom is slavery," wrote George Orwell in his novel 1984.

They'll have the high ground

Nismo nemo?ni jer nam govore što da radimo i jer to ?inimo. Bespomo?ni smo jer volimo sigurnost ropstva.

I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.

la mirada no se domina, a menudo actúa al margen de nuestras instrucciones y de nuestras censuras, o es que bajo ese pretexto le permitimos desobedecernos.

Wir Männer sind imstande, Frauen allein schon durch einen veränderten Tonfall oder mit einem drohenden und kaltschnäuzigen Satz Angst zu machen, unsere Hände sind starker und drücken seit Jahrhunderten zu.

Ha nem bírjuk levenni a szemünket valamirÅ'l, az olyan érzés, mintha irányítanának, nekünk pedig engedelmeskednünk kellene; már-már megalázó.

valójában bárki megsemmisíthet bennünket, ahogyan meg is hódíthat bárki, és ebben rejlik törékenységünk lényege.

No hay nada mejor que creer que se ha perdido la voluntad, que está uno a merced del oleaje y del vaivén, que puede mecerse y abandonarse; o sí, todavía es mejor creer que la voluntad se ha entregado a otro, a quien ahora corresponderá decidir qué va a pasar.

pero la impaciencia y la anhelación no son controlables y absorben.

que no está en su mano evitar o cumplir

Our enthusiasm for digital technology about which we have little understanding and over which we have little control leads us not toward greater agency, but toward less...We have surrendered the unfolding of a new technological age to a small elite who have seized the capability on offer. But while Renaissance kings maintained their monopoly over the printing press by force, today's elite is depending on little more than our own disinterest.

Corporations [gained] direct access to what we may think of as our humanity, emotions, and agency but, in this context, are really just buttons.

Companies with new technologies are free to disrupt almost any industry they choose—journalism, television, music, manufacturing—so long as they don't disrupt the financial operating system churning beneath it all. Hell

We can be fully human without being in complete control of our world.