Quotes About Control

Când sunt mai slab ca voi, v? cer libertatea pentru c? asta corespunde principiilor voastre; când sunt mai puternic ca voi, v? iau libertatea pentru c? asta corespunde principiilor mele.

Unrestricted questing after knowledge has a long history of producing unwanted competition. The powerful want a "safe line of investigations," which will develop only those products and ideas that can be controlled and, most important, that will allow the larger part of the benefits to be captured by inside investors.

They have no room to maneuver because that's the way their superiors grow fat. If you don't see the difference between regulation and law, both have the force of law.

trained to believe, not to know. Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.

One of the hardest things for a tyrant to find is people who actually make decisions.

Justice? Who asks for justice. We make our own justice. We make it here on Arrakis—win or die. Let us not rail about justice as long as we have arms and the freedom to use them.

Paul raised his voice: Observe her, comrades! This is a Bene Gesserit Reverend Mother, patient in a patient cause. She could wait with her sisters -- ninety generations for the proper combination of genes and environment to produce the one person their schemes required. Observe her! She knows now that the ninety generations have produced that person. Here I stand . . . but . . . I . . . will . . . never . . . do . . . her . . . bidding!

It's my storm, Paul said [...] Though it shook the entire world it could not be more than I wished.

Bureaucracy elevates conformity, make that 'elevates fatal stupidity', to the status of religion.

Only the puppet masters were important. How the puppets moved—that told you what the puppet masters were doing.

If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness—they cannot work and their civilization collapses.

Hawat tried to swallow in a dry throat. Her command had been regal, peremptory—uttered in a tone and manner he had found completely irresistible. His body had obeyed her before he could think about it. Nothing could have prevented his response—not logic, not passionate anger…nothing. To do what she had done spoke of a sensitive, intimate knowledge of the person thus commanded, a depth of control he had not dreamed possible.

The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance." Yes—I am meeting more resistance lately. I could use a quiet retreat by myself. A

Arrakis has it's own way determining who wears the mantle of authority,' Kynes said.

He who can destroy a thing has the real control of it.

Usar la fuerza bruta es volverse uno mismo infinitamente vulnerable a las fuerzas superiores.

O medo mata a mente. O medo é a pequena morte que leva à aniquilação total.

Control the coinage and the courts – let the rabble have the rest." Thus the Padishah Emperor advised you. And he tells you: "If you want profits, you must rule." There is truth in these words, but I ask myself: "Who are the rabble and who are the ruled?

The people who can destroy a thing, they control it," Paul

Hubo un tiempo en que los hombres solo prestaban atención a las máquinas, con la esperanza de que ellas les hicieran libres. Pero esto solo permitió que otros hombres con máquinas los esclavizaran

must never submit to animals.

Command must always look confident, he thought. All that faith riding on your shoulders while you sit in the critical seat and never show it.

O ponto de vista dos céticos. E os soberanos são sabidamente céticos no que toca a religião. A religião também é uma arma. E que tipo de arma seria a religião quando elas se tornam o governo?

I assure you from a God's Olympian perch that government is a shared myth. When the myth dies, the government dies.