Quotes About Control

A verdadeira explicação de tudo isto é que um grande diabo o dominou e que uma infinidade de diabos mais pequenos aparecem para servir o grande.

First of all, the free man is superior to the bound man. Now the man is in fact free: he can go wherever he wishes, the entrance to the Law alone is denied to him, and this only by one person, the doorkeeper. If he sits on the stool at the side of the door and spends the rest of his life there, he does so of his own free will; the story mentions no element of force.

My money is in the hands of strangers.

Ako te to toliko mami, a ti pokušaj da odeš tamo. Ali upamti; ja sam mo?an. A ja sam samo posljednji po ?inu.

I can't keep a storm in my room

Usted es muy severo, dijo el alcalde, pero multiplique esa severidad por mil y seguirá siendo una minucia comparada con la severidad que aplica la administración contra si misma

Auch ich habe Dich sicher oft mit Worten gekränkt, aber dann wußte ich es immer, es schmerzte mich, aber ich konnte mich nicht beherrschen, das Wort nicht zurückhalten, aber ich bereute es schon, während ich es sagte.

This noble body, equipped with everything necessary, almost to the point of bursting, also appeared to carry freedom around with it. That seem to be located somewhere or other in its teeth, and its joy in living came with such strong passion from its throat that it was not easy for spectators to keep watching. But they controlled themselves, kept pressing around the cage, and had no desire to move on.

En de man is werkelijk vrij, hij kan gaan en staan waar hij wil, alleen de toegang tot de wet is hem verboden en dat dan nog door één enkeling, door de poortwachter.

Cellat, günümüzde, soylu bir memur deÄŸildir; kamu iÅŸlevinin pragmatik ruhu ona iyi bir maaÅŸ saÄŸlar. Sonuç olarak, her namuslu memurun içinde niçin bir cellat uyuyor olmas?n? […] Onlar [memurlar] canl? ve dönüÅŸebilen varl?klar? ele al?p onlar? ölü ve en ufak dönüÅŸüme müsait olmayan arÅŸiv sicil kay?tlar? haline getirirler.

The animal wrests the whip from the master and flails itself in order to become the master

guards try to steal the shirts off the backs of arrested men

Tú estabas dotado para mí de eso tan enigmático que poseen los tiranos, cuyo derecho está basado en la propia persona, no en el pensamiento.

The animal twists the whip out of its master's grip and whips itself to become its own master—not knowing that this is only a fantasy, produced by a new knot in the master's whiplash.

For me you took on the enigmatic quality that all tyrants have whose rights are based on their person and not on reason. At least so it seemed to me.

Whenever K. started shouting they became calm, almost sad, confusing him or, in a way, bringing him back to his senses.

And that too is human freedom, I thought, self-controlled movement. What a mockery of holy Mother Nature! Were the apes to see such a spectacle, no theater walls could stand the shock of their laughter.

Whenever I started doing something you didn't like and you threatened me with the prospect of failure, my reverence for your opinion was so great that failure was, even if only at a later time, inevitable. I lost confidence in my own abilities. I was unsteady, doubtful. The older I got, the more material you could hold against me as proof of my worthlessness; gradually, in a certain regard, you began actually to be right.

Horses are wild animals, essentially, and they're not there to do what humans want them to - they can be browbeaten or cajoled or trained, but they don't hear English; they're not obedient most of the time.

Does not a man physically tremble under the mere look of a wild beast or fellow-man that is stronger than himself? Does not a woman redden all over when she feels her lover's eyes on her? How then should one doubt the mysterious power of one individual over another?

Although I agree that wild horses are a symbol of the American West, I also believe that it is the responsibility of Congress to ensure that these animals are managed, protected, and controlled in an effective manner.

The thought for a long time was that banks needed to be too controlled, too regulated to be turned over to the Wild West of the Net. Then the credit meltdown hit, and we saw just how reckless these so-called safe and regulated institutions were.

Most of the time in the 21st century, we dominate our surroundings: We tweak the thermostat, and the temperature falls one degree. We push a button, and Taylor Swift sings for us. It's the opposite in the wilderness, which teaches us constantly that we are not lords of the universe but rather building blocks of it.

'Have You in My Wilderness,' the title track, is about the idea of possessing a person, or saying, 'You're mine; you're in my world now.' I was drawn to that as an idea less from my own experience than from listening to music written by men that was kind of male gaze-y.