Quotes About Control

under progressivism, the state will grow until it controls everything and absolutely. That is, it will grow into a totalitarian state.

The ballot box is simply a means to determine how state violence is to be used against the losers of the election and how those losers will then be exploited economically and in other ways by the majority. Thus, the incentive for minority groups to attempt to secede or seize control of the state to avoid such domination and exploitation exists in democracies and dictatorships.

The dim-witted state is like a chess player who is unaware that the other fellow gets to move after he does.

Every one with this writ may be a tyrant if this commission be legal, a tyrant in a legal manner, also, may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm.

Oppressors themselves acknowledge that even the weakest of their subjects must agree to be oppressed.

A true Master Player plays as thought the game is already in the past, according to a script whose every detail is known prior to the play itself.

A finite player is trained not only to anticipate every future possibility, but to control the future, to prevent it from altering the past. This is the finite player in the mode of seriousness with its dread of unpredictable consequence.

To use the machine for control is to be controlled by the machine.

While a machine greatly aids the operator in such tasks, it also disciplines its operator. As the machine might be considered the extended arms and legs of the worker, the worker might be considered an extension of the machine. All machines, and especially very complicated machines, require operators to place themselves in a provided location and to perform functions mechanically adapted to the functions of the machine. To use the machine for control is to be controlled by the machine.

The titled are powerful. Those around them are expected to yield, to withdraw their opposition, and to conform to their will—in the arena in which the title was won.

The exercise of power always presupposes resistance.

The exercise of power always presupposes resistance. Power is never evident until two or more elements are in opposition.

Power is always measured in units of comparison. In fact, it is a term of competition: How much resistance can I overcome relative to others?

Power is a concept that belongs only in finite play.

Since the attempt to control nature is at its heart the attempt to control other persons, we can expect societies to be less patient with those cultures which express some degree of indifference to societal goals and values. It is this repeated parallel that brings us to see that the society that creates natural waste creates human waste.

Imposed silence is the first consequence of the Master Player's triumph.

Because we make use of machinery in the belief we can increase the range of our freedom, and instead only decrease it, we use machines against ourselves.

Society is a manifestation of power.

Sexuality is the only finite game in which the winner's prize is the defeated opponent.

Father of the Constitution," said: "The accumulation of all power – legislative, executive, and judiciary – in the same hands . . . may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.

in the 20th century, six times more people were killed by their own governments than were killed in wars.

To rule the world, the Antichrist (or anyone) would clearly need a world government.

American foreign policy establishment is inextricably linked to the banking establishment.

They must wait. The gates were closed. The keys that could open them were in other hands.