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Quotes About Control

We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.
~ Claude Bernard
Authority. The antithesis of science.
~ Stephen Baxter
Unfortunately, there's a lot of people in high places who understand the science but don't like where the policy leads them: too much government control.
~ David Titley
There is an art, a science to gaining power. There is a natural force or inclination in all of our beings to accumulate power. The problem that we come into is conditioning.
~ Frederick Lenz
Because this is the world that science built, with the henchmen of capitalism and Christianity.
~ Terence McKenna
We need justice. We need toleration, honesty and moral courage. These are modern virtues without which we cannot hope to control the forces science has let loose among us.
~ I. A. R. Wylie
The power of the sky can be made to do men's bidding. There are no limits to its secrets and its might, and it can be made to grant us anything if we but choose to ask.
~ Ayn Rand, Anthem
There is power in controlling something that can do so much damage-in controlling something, period.
~ Veronica Roth, Divergent
Everyone will be tracked, cradle to grave, with no possibility of escape.
~ Dave Eggers, The Circle
The mind and the breath are the king and queen of human consciousness".
~ Leonard D. Orr
I can't help what I have any more than you can help what you don't
~ Neal Shusterman, UnSouled
Science. They were all the science experiments of a maniacal government bent on controlling the universe.
~ Lynn Vroman, Energy Reborn
Such kings can destroy a world, just as easily as they can build one.
~ Sarah Warden, Immortal Earth
Stability, " insisted the Controller, "stability. The primal and the ultimate need. Stability. Hence all this.
~ Aldous Huxley
It's degrading being routinely subjected to a battery of medical tests to ensure I continue to deserve a place in this new world.
~ Siobhan Davis, True Calling
Remember, I'm the only person her who's paid to be nice to you. But not too nice. Give me any lip and I'll break your face. OK?
~ Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
I smile to catch the piranhas from swimming out of my mouth.
~ Evan Mariah Pettit
You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.
~ Al Capone
You accomplish more with a smile, a handshake, and a gun than you do with just a smile and a handshake.
~ Al Capone
Wear a fabulous smile, great jewelry and know that you are totally and utterly in control.
~ Donatella Versace
...and he smiled a lot. The smile did not mean that he was happy. It meant he was stronger than most people, and that he intended to take advantage of it.
~ Michael Cadnum, Flash
Make your smile cheaper and anger expensive!
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Now comes the part where I relieve you, the little people, of the burden of your failed and useless lives. But remember, as my plastic surgeon always said: if you gotta go, go with a smile.
~ Jack Nicholson
Let this be one invariable rule of your conduct--never to show the least symptom of resentment, which you cannot, to a certain degree, gratify; but always to smile, where you cannot strike.
~ Lord Chesterfield