Quotes About Control

society is not identical with the state. Society is composed of people, freely associating and forming communities of interest that socialists have no right to control and no authority to outlaw. To

I saw that this desire to control society in the name of equality expresses exactly the contempt for human freedom that I encountered in Eastern Europe. There

And I saw that this desire to control society in the name of equality expresses exactly the contempt for human freedom that I encountered in Eastern Europe. There is indeed such a thing as society; but it is composed of individuals. And individuals must be free, which means being free from the insolent claims of those who wish to redesign them.

The condition of society is essentially one of domination, in which people are bound to each other by their attachments, and distinguished by rivalries and competition.

So conceived, the English police force served to emphasize a fundamental truth about the English law, which is that it exists not to control the individual but to free him. The

What was most destructive about the Nazi propaganda against the Jews was not so much the expression of those nasty opinions, but the suppression of those who sought to refute them. It was the lack of free speech that allowed the opinions to rampage out of control

Government is not what so many conservatives believe it to be, and what people on the left always believe it to be when it is in other hands than their own – namely a system of power and domination.

When the Communist Party took over Eastern Europe, its first work was to destroy the civil associations that it did not control.

I felt a strong desire to howl at the moon. It was such a howlable moon. But I restrained myself.

The Keeper of Clouds has unpenned his charges. The Keeper of Winds has unlocked his gates. The Keeper of Waters has opened the sky. The Keeper of Lightnings waves his lances. The Keeper of satellites has observed, 'One hundred percent of probability of precipitation.

Power is like money... You can usually get it if you're competent and it's the only thing you want in life.

Earth is long since dead. On a colony planet, a band of men has gained control of technology, made themselves immortal, and now rule their world as the gods of the Hindu pantheon. Only one dares oppose them: he who was once Siddhartha and is now Mahasamatman. Binder of Demons, Lord of Light.

Now you know what an absolute monarchy is she explained to Bill. You can see how power corrupts. I was corrupt before I had power, Random said, and rich is better.

Personality is the one thing we cannot control in our manipulations of Shadow. In fact, it is the means by which we can tell one another from the shadows of ourselves. This is why Flora could not decide about me for so long, back on the Shadow Earth: my new personality was sufficiently different.

I would have taken genuine delight in looking helpless while actually pulling the strings that made all the others dance. Any of us would, though. We all have our motives, our ambitions.

I think he knows exactly what he is doing, and whether we like it or not, I think he is the only one who can deal with the present situation.

To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power, age-old pastime of humanity.

Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech.

To be jealous is to conform...To reject jealousy is to transgress a law.

Voler son langage à un homme au non même du langage, tous les meurtres légaux commencent par là.

What is a hero? The one who has the last word.

In "the general course of things, the popular views and even prejudices will direct the action of the rulers.

the government must degenerate either into an absolute and despotic monarchy or a tyrannical aristocracy.

Grant explained to Porter his aversion to profanities, saying "swearing helps to rouse a man's anger; and when a man flies into a passion his adversary who keeps cool always gets the better of him."50