Quotes About Control

Gravity is the root of lightness; stillness the ruler of movement." (Mueller, op. cit., p. 69.)

The having mode of existence, the attitude centered on property and profit, necessarily produces the desire—indeed the need—for power.

we—the proud people who started out to dominate nature—have become slaves of the very economic machine which we created in the process. We dominated nature, but our machine dominates us. We are perhaps more dominated by the artifacts we have created with our machines, than in many cultures people are dominated by nature which they have not learned to master.

Indeed, to one for whom having is the main form of relatedness to the world, ideas that cannot easily be pinned down (or penned down) are frightening–like everything else that grows and changes, and thus is not controllable.

Paraya,baÅŸar?ya ve piyasan?n iktidar?na tapma,modern putperestliÄŸin ortak ve etkili bir biçimidir.

Jestliže má humanistické náboženství teistické jádro, B?h je symbolem moci ?lovÄ›ka, schopností, které se ?lovÄ›k snaží v životÄ› uskute?nit - není to sym­bol síly a ovládání, symbol moci nad ?lovÄ›kem.

Today the vast majority of the people not only have no control over the whole of the economic machine, but they have little chance to develop genuine initiative and spontaneity at the particular job they are doing.

Even a person of mediocre intelligence and ability can easily run a state once he or she is in the seat of power.

Tragedija svih velikih religija je da one krše i izopa?uju same principe slobode ?im postanu masovne organizacije, kojima vlada religiozna birokratija.

All three negative utopias make it appear that it is possible to dehumanize man completely, and yet for life to go on.

religious ideology is needed in order to keep people from losing discipline and thus threatening social coherence.

Bu nas?l oldu? Nas?l oldu da, insano?lu, do?aya kar?? kazand??? utkunun doru?undayken, kendi yaratt??? ?eylerin tutsa?? haline geldi, nas?l oldu da, ciddi olarak kendi kendini yok etme tehlikesiyle kar?? kar??ya kald??

Nature is the great power we have to submit to, but living beings are the ones we should dominate.

Sadista usiluje o moc nad ?lovÄ›kem právÄ› proto, že nemá moc skute?nÄ› prožívat sv?j život, být.

Sadista se chce stát pánem života, a proto je nutné, aby jeho ob?? žila. To ho právÄ› odliÅ¡uje od destruktivního ?lovÄ›ka. Ten chce druhého ?lovÄ›ka odstranit, usmrtit, chce zni?it samotný život, chce život ovládat a pÃ…â"¢iÅ¡krcovat.

life is never certain, never predictable, never controllable; in order to make life controllable it must be transformed into death; death, indeed, is the only certainty in life.

It is too dangerous for me to put these things into words. I am afraid they might then become gigantic and I be no longer able to master them.

if you train a dog so that it only eats potatoes, and then after a while you offer it a chunk of meat, it'll still grab it because it's in its nature. And if you offer a man a bit of power, the same thing happens; he'll grab it. It's instinctive, because when it comes down to it, a man is basically a beast, and it's only later that a bit of decency gets smeared on top, the way you can spread dripping on your bread.

The head-master with the steel watch-chain wants to have at least the whole of Belgium, the coal-areas of France, and a slice of Russia.

Látod, ha egy kutyát krumplievésre kapatsz, aztán egy darab húst adsz oda neki, mégiscsak utánakap, mert ilyen a természete. Ha az embernek adsz egy darabka hatalmat, ugyanez történik: utánakap. Magától megy ez, mert az ember magábanvéve elsÅ'sorban vadállat, s tán csak azután kenÅ'dik rá valami tisztesség, mint a zsír a csomagolópapírra.

recognized that what matters is not the mind but the boot brush, not intelligence but the system, not freedom but drill.

For instance, if you train a dog to eat potatoes and then afterwards put a piece of meat in front of him, he'll snap at it, it's his nature. And if you give a man a little bit of authority he behaves just the same way, he snaps at it too.

Da li znate, bra?o, šta je najjezivije na svetu? - Prazna ?aša - odgovori Lenc. Ferdinand ga zbrisa jednim zamahom: - Gotfride, žalosno je kad je muškarac lakrdijaš. On se opet obrati nama. - Vreme je, drugovi, najjezivije. Vreme! Trenutak u kome živimo, a kojim ipak ne vladamo.

In conclusion," he said, "one may safely say that it would be no sin if statesmen learned enough of history to realize that no system which implies control of society by privilege seekers has ever ended in any other way than collapse." To fail to learn from such "blunders of the past," he said, was to end up on a course toward "another war and chaos.