Quotes About Control

Knowing how the environment is pulling your strings and playing you is critical to making responsive rather than reactive moves.

magic had nothing to do with witchcraft because the former was mostly the preserve of men, who sought to control demons, while the latter was mostly that of women, who were servants and allies to them.5 The self-image of such magicians, in the medieval and early modern periods, drew on the established ideals of the clerical, monastic and scholarly professions, representing themselves as part of the elite of pious and learned men.

any formalized practices by human beings designed to achieve particular ends by the control, manipulation and direction of supernatural power or of spiritual power concealed within the natural world'.

using pressure points to unlock his grip.

by shifting into reverse, jerking the wheel to the right or left, and shifting into drive.

A government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size

Man is not free unless government is limited.

Government is like a big baby—an alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.

One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.

Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidise it.

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!

People don't start wars, governments do.

Shouldn't someone tag Mr Kennedy's bold new imaginative program with its proper age Under the tousled boyish haircut is still old Karl Marx-first launched a century ago. There is nothing new in the idea of a government being Big Brother.

As government expands, liberty contracts.

A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

In all ages, whatever the form and name of government, be it monarchy, republic, or democracy, an oligarchy lurks behind the façade; and Roman history, Republican or Imperial, is the history of the governing class.

Ein wohlgeordneter Staat braucht keine großen Männer und hat keinen Raum für sie.

Few men have gained power, or retained it, by using, in Lenin's words, "the methods of a finishing school for young ladies.

Anger is only one letter short of danger.

We tell ourselves that a central project of law and political institutions is the reduction of violence, but this is mostly a fairly tale. Law and politics play a role in structuring violence, but rarely "reduce" it.

The ultra-centralism asked by Lenin is full of the sterile spirit of the overseer. It is not a positive and creative spirit. Lenin's concern is not so much to make the activity of the party more fruitful as to control the party--to narrow the movement rather than to develop it, to bind rather than to unify it. . . . What is today only a phantom haunting Lenin's imagination may become reality tomorrow.