Quotes About Control

it isn't passions that make us weak, but rather uncontrollable passions.

The public school system is] usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry, twisting it instead into meek subservience to authority.

Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurancesand the economy of effort it brings.

The public must be put in its place, so that it may exercise its own powers, but no less and perhaps even more, so that each of us may live free of the trampling and the roar of a bewildered herd.

The established leaders of any organization have great natural advantages. They are believed to have better sources of information. The books and papers are in their offices. They took part in the important conferences. They met the important people. They have responsibility. It is, therefore, easier for them to secure attention and to speak in a convincing tone. But also they have a very great deal of control over the access to the facts. Every official is in some degree a censor.

Without some form of censorship, propaganda in the strict sense of the word is impossible.

The public must be put in its place [...] so that each of us may live free of the trampling and the roar of a bewildered herd.

The General Staff of an army in the field is so placed that within wide limits it can control what the public will perceive. It controls the selection of correspondents who go to the front, controls their movements at the front, reads and censors their messages from the front, and operates the wires.

A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that is to say, in the process by which men educate their responses and learn to control their environment.

Das Leben ist zu kostbar um es dem Zufall zu überlassen. - Deus X. Machina

I had dispensed with a rudder on the principal that fate must be given a chance.

The engine is the heart of an airplane, but the pilot is its soul.

La mente líquida pone todo el control afuera, se deja llevar por la marejada y, por eso, es mediocre y trivial.

La mente líquida pone todo el control afuera, se deja llevar por la marejada y, por eso, es mediocre y trivial. Es mejor mimetizarse, diluirse en el conjunto indiferenciado de la población, pasar desapercibido y eludir cualquier responsabilidad. La motivación se convierte en algo tan instantáneo y volátil, que la sola idea de profundizar produce molestia, pero no por miedo a que las ideas tambaleen como haría el dogmático, sino por simple y llana pereza.

el deseo mueve al mundo y la dependencia lo frena.

Tú eres el que escribe tu destino. Dios, el Universo o la Vida te han dado la tinta y el papel para hacerlo, pero tú lo escribes.

After all, if there is no class stratification in a society, it follows that there is no state, because the state arose as an instrument to be used by a particular class to control the rest of society in its own interests.

It was economics that Europe should invest in Africa and control the continent's raw materials and labour. It was racism which confirmed the decision that form of control should be direct colonial rule.

As I swept the last bit of dust, I made a covenant with myself: I will accept. Whatever will be, will be. I have a life to lead. I recalled words a friend had told me, the philosophy of her faith. "Life is a journey and a struggle," she had said. "We cannot control it, but we can make the best of any situation." I was indeed in quite a situation. It was up to me to make the best of it.

The first principle of practical Stoicism is this: we don't react to events; we react to our judgments about them, and the judgments are up to us.

The Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David Hackett Fischer observed that questions "are the engines of intellect5—cerebral machines that convert curiosity into controlled inquiry.

Success in investing doesn't correlate with I.Q. once you're above the level of 25. Once you have ordinary intelligence, what you need is the temperament to control the urges that get other people into trouble in investing.

Anger will destroy you faster than any turtle. Anger robs the mind of its eyes of reason. And you live by your mind. We are weaker than the buffalo and slower than the horse. Our nails are not so sharp as the lion's. But where we walk, we rule. The difference is our minds. Anger clouds our minds.

His wife "ruled the roast," and in governing the governor, governed the province, which might thus be said to be under petticoat government.