Quotes About Control

The classic problem in a relationship is a person trying to control the other person. People just want to conquer somebody.

Living with a conscience is like driving with the brakes on.

I feel so entirely in my element with a full orchestra; even if my mortal enemies were marshalled before me, I could lead them, master them, surround them, or repulse them.

It's a dream come true to surround myself with my own team and truly embrace my entrepreneurial spirit, taking complete control of my career and brand is so freeing.

I love singing opera, but the world surrounding it is not me. I want to be barefoot. I want to be in control of my own career. I want to put on a show. In the opera world, you wait for people to call you until you get to a certain level. In the folk world, it's a lot easier to have control from the beginning.

I like making black and white films in natural surroundings, but I much prefer shooting a color film inside a studio where the colors are easier to control.

Surveillance breeds conformity.

Yes, you are under surveillance. Yes, it is odious. Yes, it should bother you. And yes, it's hard to know how to avoid it.

Surveillance induced morality: relics of cultural retardation.

In a democracy, the citizens are supposed to have all the power, and the government is supposed to be the means by which the citizens exercise that power. But when you have a surveillance state, the state has all the power, and citizens have very little.

The government harasses everything. The government must keep a constant surveillance of all activities by black people in order to maintain their reign over them, especially when they are in a minority.

The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication.

I don't think there's much distinction between surveillance and media in general. Better media means better surveillance. Cams are everywhere.

It seems to limit you; when you're working in an office, you're a creature in a small cell under somebody's supervision and surveillance.

Openness and participation are antidotes to surveillance and control.

Keep under strict surveillance and control those secret establishments which, within your government structures, seem to regard themselves as above the law.

Sadly, I have disappointed the surveillance capitalists myself by not yet downloading 'Pokemon Go.' But I'm addicted to my phone enough as it is, and I don't necessarily need that helping hand.

I think mass surveillance is a bad idea because a surveillance society is one in which people understand that they are constantly monitored.

Representation is a sort of surveillance.

Surveillance has long been theorized as a way to control the surveilled - namely, by getting them to police themselves out of fear of being watched.

For millennia, men have enslaved women and attempted to appropriate female creative power, re-casting themselves as gods and creators. This assault continues today in the forms of ruthless wealth and mineral extraction, genetic engineering, mass surveillance, and war mongering.

We didn't have to use technology to build a surveillance state.

In America, surveillance has always played an outsized role in the relationship between creditors and debtors.

I think most people accept that it is necessary to have some surveillance in a democratic society. I think most people accept that it's important to have limits and clear safeguards on that.