Quotes About Control

Functional organization. How does one design an electric motor? Would you attach a bathtub to it, simply because one was available? Would a bouquet of flowers help? A heap of rocks? No, you would use just those elements necessary to its purpose and make it no larger than needed - and you would incorporate safety factors. Function controls design. So it is with revolution.

The power to tax, once conceded, has no limits;

We can be selective, applying precisely the required amount of pressure at the specified point at a designated time—we've never been told to go down and kill or capture all left-handed redheads in a particular area, but if they tell us to, we can. We will.

In a mature society, "civil servant" is semantically equal to "civil master.

But a well-run tyranny is almost as scarce as an efficient democracy.

Locked you in a padded cell, with a certificate signed by three doctors, and allowed you mail on alternate leap years.

Manuel, on some subjects I don't trust even myself. Limiting the freedom of news 'just a little bit' is in the same category with the classic example 'a little bit pregnant.' We are not yet free nor will we be as long as anyone—even our ally Mike—controls our news. Someday I hope to own a newspaper independent of any source or channel. I would happily set print by hand, like Benjamin Franklin.

Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything—you can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.

Government! Three-fourths parasitic and the rest stupid fumbling—

That we were slaves I had known all my life—and nothing could be done about it. True, we weren't bought and sold—but as long as Authority held monopoly over what we had to have and what we could sell to buy it, we were slaves.

sometimes I think that government is an inescapable disease of human beings. But it may be possible to keep it small and starved and inoffensive

he does not control is to behave with blind idiocy.

A managed democracy is a wonderful thing, Manuel, for the managers.

joking. A slave needs privileges to keep him quiet.

What I fear most are affirmative actions of sober and well- intentioned men, granting to government powers to do something that appears to need doing.

A credit card is a leash around your neck. In the world of credit cards a person has no privacy…

Must be a yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. Rules, laws—always for other fellow.

All human behavior, all human motivations, all man's hopes and fears, were colored and controlled by mankind's tragic and oddly beautiful pattern of reproduction

War is not violence and killing, pure and simple; war is controlled violence, for a purpose. The purpose of war is to support your government's decisions by force. The purpose is never to kill the enemy just to be killing him . . . but to make him do what you want him to do. Not killing . . . but controlled and purposeful violence. But

Must be a yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. Rules, laws—always for other fellow. A murky part of us, something we had before we came down out of trees, and failed to shuck when we stood up.

suspect it will be the harshest tyranny imaginable; majority rule gives the ruthless strong man plenty of elbow room to oppress his fellows.

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A managed democracy is a wonderful thing, Manuel, for the managers . . . and its greatest strength is a 'free press' when 'free' is defined as 'responsible' and the managers define what is 'irresponsible.

Have heard of armies where boss is not told to shut up – word is 'discipline.' But we were amateurs.