Quotes About Control

Almost all gamesters learn to control their faces ... The Hand blabs secrets shamelessly.

For the more a man limits himself, the nearer he is on the other hand to what is limitless.

People do not choose a government that will bring the market within their control; instead, the market in every way conditions governments to bring the people within its control.

As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

Rigidity of order is the artefact and sediment of the human agents ' freedom.

La cultura no puede convivir pacíficamente con la gestión, sobre todo, cuando ésta es molesta e insidiosa, y, más aún, cuando se trata de una gestión dedicada a distorsionar las ansias exploradoras/experimentadoras de la cultura para que encaje en el marco de la racionalidad dibujado por los gestores

The economic crisis, so conveniently operated and driven by the markets, by financial groups, by the needs of a globalized economy, faces the task of restoring social control, which the crisis of modernity lost sight of.

La antipolítica garantiza la continuación del juego político entre los partidos, pero lo vacía de significación social, ya que el ciudadano se ve obligado a cuidar de su propio bienestar: el «Estado dirige y controla a sus súbditos sin responsabilizarse de ellos»

Z.B: Hannah Arendt observó que el verdadero genio entre los seductores nazis era Himmler, que organizó a las masas en un sistema de dominación total, gracias a su (correcta!) suposición de que en su gran mayoría los hombres no son vampiros o sádicos, sino empleados y miembros de una familia.

la red muestra lo mismo que se ve en un patio escolar, con la diferencia de que en este patio no hay maestros, ni policías, ni moderadores que vigilen lo que sucede".

The rationality of the ruled is always the weapon of the rulers.

En cuanto al poder, se aleja a toda vela de la calle y del mercado, de las asambleas y de los parlamentos, de los gobiernos locales y de los nacionales, más allá del alcance del control de los ciudadanos, hacia la extraterritorialidad de las redes electrónicas. En la actualidad, los principios estratégicos favoritos de los que tienen el poder son el escape, la evasión y la retirada, y su estado ideal es la invisibilidad.

From the start and to this very day, modernity was about forcing nature to serve obediently human needs, ambitions and desires –

Religion in this country is worse than communism. Say the wrong thing, think the wrong thing and, look--there's the Stasi knocking at your door.

Once he'd realized how the t'landa Til ability could be utilized, it had been a simple matter for Aruk to make up some doctrine, compose a few hymns, and write several chants and litanies. And that was all it took to produce a "religion" that credulous fools belonging to inferior species could embrace.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.

Well, now I know I can control my tongue, my temper, and my appetites, but that's it. I have no effect on weather, traffic, or luck. I can't make good things happen. I can't keep anybody safe. I can't influence the future and I can't fix up the past. What a relief.

There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern. Nothing

Inner liberty depends upon being exempt from domination of things as well as from domination of people. There are many who have acquired a high degree of political and social liberty, but only very few are not enslaved to things.

There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.

You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry

I was a little cross.I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up.

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away. it's best to let him run.