Quotes About Control

The teachers who get "burned out" are not the ones who are constantly learning, which can be exhilarating, but those who feel they must stay in control and ahead of the students at all times.

A world government run by the UN will be like getting an old, purblind, half-deaf substitute teacher.

The objective of false prophets and teachers of whatever stripe is...the influence and control of the minds of men.

You say that I should be your teacher! See to it that I am your pinion and not your brake.

The nerds are running the world now.

Teachers often make the mistake of thinking they're the boss of the class; they're not. The boss of the class is sitting down there somewhere.

Why can't teachers end up owning schools, the way waiters can open their own restaurants?

Even enlightened despots don't make very good teachers.

Teachers themselves know if there's a colleague who can't keep control or keep the interest of their class, it affects the whole school.

There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it will be 'My phone is spying on me'.

If you don't have a strategy, you're part of someone else's strategy.

It's supposed to be automatic but actually you have to press this button.

Governments will use whatever technology is available to combat their primary enemy - their own population.

In this era of world leadership, the metal detector is the altar and the minicam may be god.

People think that knowing the future can help you prepare for what is to come - but often it only makes you powerless.

that politics has invaded everything, spared nothing . . . religion, art, family . . . it has taken over everything . . . there is no escape from it . . .

That which a man takes for himself no one can deny him.

If you're in command, it's always your fault.

But money, if not mastered, can bring ruin as well as riches

Rules, rules, she said softly. All you ever talk about is rules. That's how you and your kind have destroyed everything—science, religion, socialism—with your rules and your orthodoxies. That's the difference between us: you worry about rules and I worry about being human.

I thought of all the hours that i has spent at passport and visa counters, and the stark terror that an immigration officer's frown could still send through me.

The worst thing is that the enslaved secretly dream of enslaving their enslavers. The persecuted yearn to be persecutors. The slaves dream of being masters. As in the book of Esther.

De waarheid is dat alle macht ter wereld een vijand niet in een vriend kan veranderen. Hij kan een vijand in een slaaf veranderen, maar niet in een kameraad. Met alle macht kun je een fanaticus niet veranderen in een tolerant iemand. En met alle macht ter wereld kun je een wraakzuchtige niet veranderen in een vriend.

It's frightening to think that you might not know something, but more frightening to think that, by and large, the world is run by people who have faith that they know exactly what is going on.