Quotes About Control

Giovani fortunati! — disse il Governatore. — Non è stata risparmiata nessuna fatica per rendere le vostre vite facili dal punto di vista emotivo; per preservarvi, nei limiti del possibile, dal provare qualsiasi emozione.

RzÄ…dzenie to sprawa stoÅ'ka, nie koÅ'ka. RzÄ…dzi siÄ™ przy pomocy mózgu i poÅ›ladków, nie pi??ci. - Aldous Huxley Nowy, wspaniaÅ'y Å›wiat

Strange, mused the Director, as they turned away. Strange to think that even in Our Ford's day most games were played without more apparatus than a ball or two and a few sticks and perhaps a bit of netting. Imagine the folly of allowing people to play elaborate games which do nothing whatever to increase consumption. It's madness. Nowadays, the Controllers won't approve of any new game unless it can be shown that it requires at least as much apparatus as the most complicating of existing games.

Don't think of him.' 'I can't help it.' 'Take soma, then.' 'I do.' 'Well, go on.' 'But in the intervals I still like him. I shall always like him.

I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff.

doubt is a good servant but a bad master; a perfect mistress, but a nagging wife.

In brief, we govern by a mixture of lying and bullying. ---(From the pamphlet: The Scientific Solution of the Problem of Government.)

In brief, we govern by a mixture of lying and bullying.

Let my servants be few & secret: they shall rule the many & the known.

Thus each step in sorcery is also a step in slavery; and that any man should put such power in the hands of another, no matter for what hope of gain, is one of the mysteries of perverse psychology.

The things that worry the pedestrian worry us not at all; but to control a new element your Yama must be that biological principle of adaptation to the new conditions, adjustment of the faculties to those conditions, and consequent success in those conditions

26. These slay, naming your enemies; & they shall fall before you.

He knew that he was hated, abhorred by the mass of the people, and this knowledge made him react against the external world, and at the same time increased the satisfaction and pleasure he found in the servility, solicitude, and adulation of his dependents, who had consolidated his interests and prosperity and extended to the utmost a sovereignty quite unsupported by legality and constitution.

And carefully he brought Time to a halt, for as long as he wished.

Anyone else feel like that? Like your life's a big act. Like you're trying to be a man when you're just a scared kid, trying to keep under control when you really want to scream, cry, maybe hit someone. Ever feel like you're breathing underwater, and you have to stop because you're gulping in too much fluid?

Sleepless late that night, his mind still tumbling with conflicts, he recalled something Omoro had said once when Kunta had refused to let go of a choice mango after Lamin begged for a bite: "When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand, nor can your hand pick up anything.

Regulation of sexual behavior is the preferred route to wider social control.

Mankind will not be perfect until it can create and destroy like God. It can already destroy: that's half the battle.

Man does not steal, he conquers

The answer is to draw a line between a businessman's risk and a loss. As traders, we always take businessman's risks, but we may never take a loss greater than this predetermined risk.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

A powerful, victorious ally is yet another name for master.

If we must have an enemy at the head of government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible.

Vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty.