Quotes About Control

Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.

A really failing society has a lot of rules (or laws).

The 'global warming scare' is being used as a political tool to increase government control over American lives, incomes and decision making. It has no place in the Society's activities.

The sooner we all learn to make a decision between disapproval and censorship, the better off society will be... Censorship cannot get at the real evil, and it is an evil in itself.

Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.

The middle class is collapsing and we are moving toward an oligarchic form of society, where the billionaires will control the economy and the political life of the country.

There is nothing the state can do, and which society needs done, that cannot be done far better by the market.

Probably never in human history did we live in a society in which, at the microlevel of personal behavior, our lives were so strongly regulated.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate power of the society but the people themselves.

The state always poses a greater threat to society than whatever problem it purports to solve.

You really don't create an authoritarian society unless you control the personal choices including the sexual choices of the people.

It is because freedom means the renunciation of direct control of individual efforts that a free society can make use of so much more knowledge than the mind of the wisest ruler could comprehend.

how can a democratic discourse exist in a corporate owned informational system? Who, for example, possesses freedom of speech in such a society?

They Want You To Be A Docile Apathetic Consumer

Man can be chained, but he cannot be domesticated.

Ultimately it is by harnessing the natural economic forces which drive society that the pollution tax offers us an opportunity to exert greater control over our environment.

If I were to select a jack-booted group of fascists who are perhaps as large a danger to American society as I could pick today, I would pick BATF [the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms].

The conspiracy theory of society... comes from abandoning god and then asking: "Who is in his place"

To accept the principal that "all power proceeds from the barrel of a gun" is to accept a society which will be dominated by those with the biggest guns.

No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.

There is, in a competitive society, nobody who can exercise even a fraction of the power which a socialist planning board would possess.

What we have now in America is a surveillance society.

Those who control the wealth of this society have an influence over political life far in excess of their number.

The real bias of the media is not to the left or to the right, but to the thin strata of economic elites at the top of our society.