Quotes About Control

We are told that standardized testing must be imposed to make sure students meet a set of standardized criteria so they will later be able to fit into a world that is itself increasingly standardized. Never are we asked, of course, whether it's good to standardrize children (sorry, I mean students), knowledge, or the larger world.

a system of domination will always be undernourished.

We have been taught, in ways large and small, religious and secular, that life is based on hierarchies, and that those higher on these hierarchies dominate those lower, either by right or by might. We have been taught that there are myriad literal and metaphorical food chains where the one at the top is the king of the jungle.

That's what we're afraid of. The wild. Those we can't buy. Those we can't threaten. Those we can't domesticate. Those we can't control.

Those in power have made it so we have to pay simply to exist on the planet. We have to pay for a place to sleep, and we have to pay for food. If we don't, people with guns come and force us to pay. That's violent.

A primary purpose of the police is to enforce the delusions of those with lots of green paper.

My third maxim was to try always to master myself rather than fortune and change my desires rather than changing how things stand in the world.

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

gran control tecnológico ejercido sobre la población en desplazamientos e información es aceptado por la influencia confuciana

Those who believe in karma do not blame. They do not judge. They accept that humans live in a sea of consequences, over which there is limited control. So they accept every moment as it is supposed to be. They act without expectation.

You want the world to behave as you wish. It does not, hence your anger and your grief.

The idea of a powerful woman aware of her own desires made people uncomfortable and so she was portrayed as barbaric, even demonic, not in control of her passions.

Arjuna, you have control over your action alone, not the fruits of your action. So do not be drawn to expectation, or inaction.

The Gita does not speak of changing the world. It speaks of appreciating the world that is always changing. Belief in one life makes us want to change the world, control it or resign to the way things are. Belief in rebirth enables us to appreciate all three possibilities, without clinging to any.

man the master of his own destiny and the creator of his own desires,

The Veda says that as long as we do not accept life for what it is, as long as we try to control and change things, there will always be conflict. Conflict ends when we realize that beyond tangible material reality, there is intangible spiritual reality.

Humans have the ability to control fire, water, plants as well as animals, something that no other living organism can do. But we struggle to control the human mind: our mind as well as the mind of those around us.

always stay balanced—neither too tight nor too loose—like the bow.

He who controls the senses but has a mind full of cravings is a pretender who fools himself.

Ultimately, all wars can be traced to the simplest of quarrels where man is eager to overpower rather than indulge the other.

By making man the master of his own destiny and the creator of his own desires, God makes man ultimately responsible for the life he leads and the choices he makes. God does not interfere with fate; he simply helps man cope with it.

Both greed and outrage stem from insecurity; insecurity is the result of a poor understanding of, and a lack of faith in, one's true nature and the true nature of the world around us. The Veda says that as long as we do not accept life for what it is, as long as we try to control and change things, there will always be conflict. Conflict ends when we realize that beyond tangible material reality, there is intangible spiritual reality.

Control creates domesticated animals. The purpose of society is to inspire humanity, not tame them

Control creates domesticated animals. The purpose of society is to inspire humanity, not tame them,' said Ram.