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Quotes About Control

A smile can express more than a thousand feelings, but to me The Unknown, its the deadliest weapon i was created with and have control over
~ Ryan Leonard
If it's the lack of forbidden you're worried about. You could still forbid me to do things." "What kind of things?" She felt him smile against her mouth. "Things like this.
~ Cassandra Clare
I am amused to see from my window here how busily a man has divided and staked off his domain. God must smile at his puny fences running hither and thither everywhere over the land.
~ Henry David Thoreau
People are way too optimistic about the power they assume they have got to control how they are being perceived. They don't realize that none of the armours they wear is free of holes!
~ Lukhman Pambra
Learn to be a responder, not a reactor.
~ Shannon L. Alder
The only keeper of your happiness is you. Stop giving people the power to control your smile, your worth and your attitude.
~ Mandy Hale
Switch on your smile, laugh without reason. You control happiness, you change the world.
~ Roel van Sleeuwen
While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.
~ Robert Kennedy
Society is an insane asylum ran by the inmates.
~ Erving Goffman
The state is or can be master of money, but in a free society it is master of very little else.
~ William Beveridge
Domination is not that solid and global kind of domination that one person exercises over others, or one group over another, but the manifold forms of domination that can be exercised within society.
~ Michel Foucault
The state reserves the right to be the sole interpreter of the needs of society.
~ Benito Mussolini
Total surveillance is increasingly the general condition of society as a whole.
~ Michel Foucault
No social stability without individual stability.
~ Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
I refuse to follow the rules where society tries to control people with low self esteem.
~ Kanye West
In any given society the authority of man over man runs in inverse proportion to the intellectual development of that society.
~ Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Our society is not one of spectacle but of surveillance.
~ Michel Foucault
Suppress prostitution, and capricious lusts will overthrow society.
~ Saint Augustine
If we look at human society we see a place so difficult to live in because it is ruled by fear.
~ Miguel Angel Ruiz
The end goal is to get everybody chipped, to control the whole society, to have the bankers and the elite people control the world.
~ Aaron Russo
The web of domination has become the web of Reason itself, and this society is fatally entangled in it.
~ Herbert Marcuse
If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
~ Ayn Rand
Under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control.
~ Noam Chomsky
People do not consciously and rationally choose the form of their society. Societies develop through processes of social evolution that are not under rational human control.
~ Theodore Kaczynski