Quotes About Control

But the pain—" he said. "Pain," she sniffed. "A human can override any nerve in the body.

You can't stop a mental epidemic.

When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movement becomes headlong—faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thoughts of obstacles and forget that a precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's too late.

Power tends to isolate those who hold too much of it. Eventually, they lose touch with reality . . . and fall.

Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class—whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy. —Politics as Repeat Phenomenon: Bene Gesserit Training Manual

Quite naturally, holders of power wish to suppress wild research. 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.

That's what he means by give up the initiative. He wants to crush them, suppress them, control them, prevent them. He is living proof that there is little difference between the police mind and the military mind.

Korku katilidir akl?n. Korku, mutlak y?k?m getiren küçük ölümdür.

He is living proof that there is little difference between the police mind and the military mind. I told him, "Radicals are only to be feared when you try to suppress them. You must demonstrate that you will use the best of what they offer.

But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.

Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject.

The freman are civil, educated and ignorant. They are not mad. They are trained to believe not to know. Believe can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.

Cuando religión y política viajan en el mismo carro, los viajeros piensan que nada podrá detenerles en su camino... Su movimiento es acelerado… rápido y más rápido. Dejan a un lado todos los obstáculos, y no piensan que un precipicio se descubre siempre demasiado tarde.

We have created a monster — enormously valuable and even useful yet extremely dangerous. Our monster is both beautiful and terrifying. We do not dare use this monster to its full potential, but we cannot release our grasp upon it. — Gowachin assessment of the Dosadi experiment

She had quoted a Bene Gesserit proverb to him: "When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movement becomes headlong—faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thought of obstacles and forget that a precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's too late.

Peace has only one meaning in this Imperium. It's the maintenance of a single way of life.

If you put away those who report accurately, you'll keep only those who know what you want to hear," Jessica

I must rule with eye and claw—as the hawk among lesser birds.

What's law? Control? Law filters chaos and what drips through? Serenity? Law—our highest ideal and our basest nature. Don't look too closely at the law. Do, and you'll find the rationalized interpretations, the legal casuistry, the precedents of convenience. You'll find the serenity, which is just another word for death.

Those who would repeat the past must control the teaching of history.

Only those who recognize the value of war and exercise it have any degree of self-determination.

When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles. —WORDS OF AN ANCIENT PHILOSOPHER (ATTRIBUTED BY HARQ AL-ADA TO ONE LOUIS VEUILLOT)

When I'm stronger than you I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.

He hates his God Emperor! No . . . he fears him. But don't we always hate what we fear?