Quotes About Control

Being with an insanely jealous person is like being in the room with a dead mammoth.

Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.

Passionate jealousy is not a good foster-parent for prudence.

Thou tyrant, tyrant Jealousy, Thou tyrant of the mind!

anger and jealousy are spasms of the nerves, not of the heart.

Confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism. Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence.

Military guys are rarely as smart as they think they are, and they've never gotten over the fact that civilians run the military.

All jealousy must be strangled in its birth.

The best way to quiet a country is a good thrashing, followed by great kindness afterwards. Even the wildest chaps are thus tamed.

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.

Knowledge is not for knowing: knowledge is for cutting.

He who gives you the diameter of your knowledge,presc ribes the circumference of your activities.

Information is the mortar that both builds and destroys empires.

The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

Todo el mundo obliga a todo el mundo, y si no el mundo se detendría. Todo permanecería flotando en una vacilación global y continua.

e já levo o Valderas pela trela para onde bem me apeteça, é incrível como o amansei: aqui mijas, aqui paramos, aqui afrouxo a trela para te achares em liberdade, aqui há aguentar, que apressar o passo e, se precisares de cagar, tens de te aguentar.

El tiempo de los suicidas ha de ser extraño porque está enteramente en su mano terminarlo

De la libertad se puede prescindir. De hecho es lo primero de lo que los ciudadanos con miedo están dispuestos a prescindir. Tanto que a menudo exigen perderla, que se la quiten, no volver a verla ni en pintura, nunca más, y así aclaman a quien va a arrebatársela y después votan por él.

So who does shape the world, then? Who is in a position to do that?

no podemos culparnos de las cosas que se escapan a nuestro control.

Por encima de todo, había aprendido la lección que su soberbio hijo jamás entendería. Que el verdadero poder, si quiere perdurar, debe ser anónimo, permanecer oculto y manejar los hilos desde las sombras. Pues si nadie sabe donde reside, nadie intentará suplantarlo.

El dominio absoluto de toda la realidad

Obsesionado por el conocimiento como medio para conceguir el poder

Lo malo de gobernar por el miedo es que al final tú mismo acabas viviendo con miedo;