Quotes About Control

Sparta, by contrast, concentrated its power on land.

It has always been the way of the world that the weaker is kept down by the stronger.

It also meant that no state could legislate

Mindful walking reinforces the sense of "me" walking "with" awareness. An exercise more aligned with wise view would be to walk within awareness, allowing awareness the full and true embrace of the person, with the person no longer in control of awareness.

Lo ocurrido en varios países muestra que la democracia puede engendrar monstruos que acaben con ella.

Quiere imponer su mundo y evitar que haya cambios.

Un gobierno desorganizado y sin objetivos claros puede derivar en una autocracia.

el debilitamiento del Estado es compensado con el fortalecimiento del autoritarismo presidencial.

Your presence of mind becomes your thermostat of thought.

Conspiracy theory is the ultimate refuge of the powerless. If you cannot change your own life, it must be that some greater force controls the world.

When you can't control your circumstances, don't let your circumstances control you.

It should come as no surprise that the real value and benefit of accountability stems from a person's or an organization's ability to influence events and outcomes before they happen.

It seems ironic that, in this information age, millions of people feel such a lack of control over their lives. Obviously, the communications revolution has done little to overcome, and may even have contributed to, a feeling of detachment and disconnectedness with circumstances and other people.

The Ottomans were probably already casting guns at Edirne by this time; what Orban brought was the skill to construct the molds and control the critical variables on a far greater scale.

Now, using the clay make a model of your experience during the visualisation. Objectives The flight in a light aircraft takes clients through a range of emotions. All the way through the visualisation clients make choices for themselves. This gives them control of how their own story develops. Clients can experience different emotions throughout the flight. They are encouraged to acknowledge their own thoughts and feelings.

Ce genre de communication (mass-médias) ne sert pas à faire "communiquer" les hommes et les peuples, à enrichir leur expérience de la vie par l'expérience des autres, mais au contraire, à abêtir, à manipuler, à conditionner (pour faire acheter un produit, faire voter pour un parti, ou faire accepter une guerre).

Because our attachment to control is either unexamined or addictive, we do not understand that by relinquishing control and providing choice, we increase our influence and impact many times over.

One person could run a small state, if they were strong and angry enough. But the USA was too big for that.

Getting angry is easy. But to get angry with the right person, in the right way, for the right reasons…that is not easy.

When one had sufficient control over fantasy, one had no need of reality.

Intellectuals are naturally attracted by the idea of a planned society, in the belief that they will be in charge of it.

It is not the truth of Marxism that explains the willingness of intellectuals to believe it, but the power that it confers on intellectuals, in their attempts to control the world. And since...it is futile to reason someone out of a thing that he was not reasoned into, we can conclude that Marxism owes its remarkable power to survive every criticism to the fact that it is not a truth-directed but a power-directed system of thought.

Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.

We don't need no educationWe don't need no thought controlNo dark sarcasm in the classroomTeacher leave them kids aloneHey! Teacher! Leave them kids aloneAll in all it's just another brick in the wall.All in all you're just another brick in the wall.