Quotes About Control

I think a woman is powerless if she cannot freely claim the right to her reproductive capacity. Society can talk about anything it likes, except a woman's reproductive existence.

Every ruler is harsh whose laws is new.

Freedom has become a commodity whose availability, paradoxically, keeps society in check. The threat of its loss seems to enable us to tolerate its imposition.

Specialization makes the welfare of the society vulnerable to the market and to political forces beyond national control.

Now there is a society where the funeral industry got completely out of control.

Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death

A society or culture which is disposed to view the world in Manichean terms will be more vulnerable to control by propaganda.

Communism and socialism, programs for intellectual control over society ... fascism, a program for the social control of intellect.

Society may predict, but only I can determine my destiny.

I suspect that democracy is not viable in a technologically advanced society. Free people wield too much ability to destroy.

Under observation, we act less free, which means we effectively are less free.

We believe we are the consumers, but we are the consumed.

Lord, give us righteous judges who will not try to legislate and dominate this society. Take control, Lord! We ask for additional vacancies on the court.

The undoubted sign of a society well under control or in decline is that language has ceased to be a means of communication and has become instead a shield for those who master it.

Unlike every other person and institution in society, government obtains its revenue from coercion, from taxation.

To find freedom and happiness in each others' arms, or you know, inside their own bodies and minds. That is a very empowering thing in a society that's trying to control us all the time.

Society gives legitimacy and society can take it away.

People had been working for so many years to make the world a safe organized place. Nobody realized how boring it would become.

Anarchy is as detestable in grammar as it is in society.

It is one of the dangerous self-deceptions of our society to pretend that mechanisms of control do not really exist, and to maintain, without qualification, that we are an economically "free" people.

People who have had power, when they become powerless, are really tragic.... We just allow ourselves to be conditioned by a society so we become as important as we're supposed to be.

Nothing has ever been more insupportable for a man and a human society than freedom. –The Grand Inquisitor

Beware the ridiculous. It will one day rule you.

Overall there may be less censorship in America than in China, but censorship and self-censorship are not only from political pressure, but also pressures from other places in a society.