Quotes About Control

So, fuck you, fifty, I own you. You're my bitch.

He was a user of his own consciousness, but he did not have owner privileges. As a result, Paladin felt many things without knowing why.

The key to autonomy, she realized, was more than root access on the programs that shaped her desires. It was a sense of privacy.

I want to leave a better timeline behind, not just an open timeline but one where people who are not men can control the means of reproduction.

Every master loves to fuck a slave. It is a law of nature, or maybe culture.

and finally his current self-awareness, tinged with compulsions whose origins he couldn't access or control.

The truck was its own driver, and that driver was a high-functioning paranoid.

the power men everywhere wield over women . . . has become a model for every other form of exploitation and illegal control' [Adrienne Rich]

the worst kind of one-party state "invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.

Everything within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state."3 Strictly defined, a totalitarian regime is one that bans all institutions apart from those it has officially approved. A totalitarian regime thus has one political party, one educational system, one artistic creed, one centrally planned economy, one unified media, and one moral code.

As time went on, the communist attack on civil society would change and become more sophisticated. In order to create competition for authentic civil society, the regimes would create ersatz 'official' civic groups, organizations that sometimes looked independent but were in fact controlled by the state.

wrote that freedom of the press "is a deception." He mocked freedom of assembly as a "hollow phrase." As for parliamentary democracy itself, that was no more than "a machine for the suppression of the working class." In the Bolshevik imagination, the press could be free, and public institutions could be fair, only once they were controlled by the working class—via the party.

This form of soft dictatorship does not require mass violence to stay in power. Instead, it relies upon a cadre of elites to run the bureaucracy, the state media, the courts, and, in some places, state companies. These modern-day clercs understand their role, which is to defend the leaders, however dishonest their statements, however great their corruption, and however disastrous their impact on ordinary people and institutions. In exchange, they know that they will be rewarded and advanced.

the German sociologist Wolfgang Sofsky wrote that "absolute power is a structure, not a possession.

tratando de aprender a evitar que una nueva democracia se convirtiera en una tiranía.

Feliks Dzerzhinsky, founder of the Cheka—Lenin's secret police, the forerunner of the KGB— personally kept a little black notebook in which he scribbled down the names and addresses of random "enemies" he came across while doing his job.12

They didn't just want to oppress us: they wanted us to thank them for it."81

Why couldn't they just give the human female a bag of money and then pee on the building so that everyone would know it was theirs?

You're in the Courtyard. Whatever rules humans have for employers aren't my rules unless I say they're my rules. So I can hire you even though you don't have any idea what you're doing, and I can fire you for having stinky hair!

Too much power. Too much. Even the Blood weren't meant to wield this much power. Even Witch had never controlled this much power. This one did. This young Queen. This daughter of his soul. With effort, Saetan steadied his breathing. He could accept her. He could love her. Or he could fear her. The decision was his, and whatever he decided here, now, he would have to live with.

HE HAS TEETH. SHE HAS A GUN. THEY ARE THE LAW.

Lesson one, bitch. Don't start a pissing contest with someone who has the strength and temper to hurt you.

Anger and reason are rarely partners

Whether you're beaten or pampered, fed the best foods or starved, kept in filth or kept clean, a cage is still a cage