Quotes About Control

Bernays said that the more intelligent members of the community can direct the population through "the engineering of consent," which he considered "the very essence of the democratic process.

To a large extent, that's the way empires work. Internal class war is a significant element of empire.

The sex slaves will have to learn to comply happily with whatever sexual act a client requests. The liberal application of violence early on will crack the resistance they will inevitably mount. If a client ever complains that the sex slave was less than accommodating, swift and brutal punishment will be meted out.

Public schoolboys are not merely conservatives, they are by nature totalitarian reactionaries.

So what Epictetus was telling his students was that there can be no such thing as being the "victim" of another. You can only be a "victim" of yourself. It's all in how you discipline your mind. Who

Work with what you have control of and you'll have your hands full.

Happiness is the knowledge that one is more powerful than all the objects in the world and all the thoughts in one's own mind.

I conceive of God, in fact, as a means of liberation and not a means to control others.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Like a black hole, NSA pulls in every signal that comes near, but no electron is ever allowed to escape.

You'll find that there's a strange freedom in letting go of your denials and fears. When you're prepared to accept that you are the one who makes things happen in your own life, you stop fearing the unknown and start realizing that you have control over every situation. It's up to you to make this work, which means that you have absolute opportunity to make sure it does.

Subsidies entail politiciansí taking the citizenís paycheck and then using it to buy his submission.

There is no technological magic bullet that will make the government as smart as it is powerful.

The worse government fails, the less privacy citizens supposedly deserve.

People have been taught to expect far more from government than from freedom.

Trusting government nowadays means dividing humanity into two classes: those who can be trusted with power to run other peoples lives, and those who cannot even be trusted to run their own lives.

The Night Watchman State has been replaced by Highway Robber States governments in which no asset, no contract, no domain is safe from the fleeting whim of politicians.

Bogus fears can produce real servitude.

The surest effect of exalting government is to make it easier for some people to drag others down.

The more that democracy is assumed to be inevitable, the more likely it will self-destruct.

Democracy unleashes the State in the name of the people.

The arrogance of power is the best hope for the survival of freedom.

Clinton exploited and expanded the dictatorial potential of the U.S. presidency.

Part of the reason that the government's fear mongering is succeeding is because so many people are so ignorant, that it is easier for government to frighten people in submission.