Quotes About Control

The first principle in riding a tiger is to hang on tight to its ears.

government is a dangerous servant and a terrible master. You now have freedom—if you can keep it. But do remember that you can lose this freedom more quickly to yourselves than to any other tyrant.

like fire and fusion, government is a dangerous servant and a terrible master.

Department of Defense" ever won a war; see the histories. But it seems to be a standard civilian reaction to scream for defensive tactics as soon as they do notice a war. They then want to run the war—like a passenger trying to grab the controls away from the pilot in an emergency.

V armádÄ› jsou jen dvÄ› velikosti - moc velká a moc malá.

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.

Well, we shoot mad dogs, don't we?

Any government that gets to be too big and too successful gets to be a nuisance. The Federation got that way—it started out decently enough—and now it has to be trimmed down to size. So that the citizens can enjoy some 'looseness'.

When are the territorial states going to learn that they cannot possibly win against corporate states?

think perhaps of all the things a police state can do to its citizens, distorting history is possibly the most pernicious.

Control of anything essential to life should be decentralized and paralleled so that if one machine fails, another takes over.

should not change geological features appreciably and placement of cities is largely controlled by geography.

It [now] seems to me that every time we manage to establish one freedom, they take another one away. Maybe two. And that seems to me characteristic of a society as it gets older, and more crowded, and higher taxes, and more laws.

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.' Do

Wherever there is power and mass to manipulate, Man can live.

not one of those people said: "Please pass this so that I won't be able to do something I know I should stop." Nyet, tovarishchee, was always something they hated to see neighbors doing. Stop them "for their own good"—not because speaker claimed to be harmed by it.

Ä°dareli bir demokrasi muhteÅŸem bir ÅŸeydir, Manuel, idare edenler için... en büyük gücü de 'Özgür'ün 'sorumluluk sahibi ' olarak tan?mland??? ve neyin 'sorumsuz ' olduÄŸunu idarecilerin belirlediÄŸi 'özgür bas?n'd?r.

something we had before we came down out of trees, and failed to shuck when we stood up. Because not one of those people said: "Please pass this so that I won't be able to do something I know I should stop.

Aphrodite often shows her tyrannical side and thinks her word is law.

a woman has control over her feelings and inner world, a capacity unknown to most men. She can enter at will a deep place within herself where healing and balance are restored.

Taxation is robbery based on monopoly of weapons

The individual act of obedience is the cornerstone not only of the strength of authoritarian society but also of its weakness.

There is no governor anywhere; you are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped. We are all absolutely free. If everybody could go into dhyana at will, nobody could be controlled — by fear of prison, by fear of whips or electroshock, by fear of death, even. All existing society is based on keeping those fears alive, to control the masses. Ten people who know would be more dangerous than a million armed anarchists.

I am not a donkey to be led by the carrot of salvation and the stick of damnation without thinking of where they are driving me and what they are making me do.