Quotes About Control

you will not be master of my body & my property

And, therefore, I pray God both day and night that, to a wrathful man, He send but little might. It is a great harm and, for certain, a great misfortune to place an angry man in high position.

Yet I am ruled by my emotions, though I murder them at birth.

No less enthusiastically, Churchill saw that air power 'may ultimately lead to a form of control over semi-civilised countries which will be found very effective and infinitely cheaper', adding that, 'I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes

The postures are only the skin of yoga. Hidden behind them are the flesh and blood of breath control and mental techniques that are still more difficult to learn, as well as moral practices that require a lifetime of consistent application and that correspond to the skeletal structure of the body. The higher practices of concentration, meditation and unitive ecstasy(samadhi) are analogous to the circulatory and nervous system. Georg Feuerstein The Deeper Dimension of Yoga

So it is clear that genetic diseases can be controlled, but they cannot be controlled by being hidden.

Hartstein was trying to keep himself under control. He wanted to scream; getting information from Brannick was like getting credit from the phone company.

at the basis of every virtue is our power to break its hold

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read. [As quoted in Literary Censorship in England (in Current Opinion , Vol. 55, No. 5, November 1913)]

To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.

But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person's thumb are two different things.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.

All professions are conspiracies against the laity.

The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.

The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child prison, engages a number of employee schoolmasters as turnkeys, and covers up the essential cruelty and unnaturalness of the situation by torturing the children if they do not learn, and calling this process, which is within the capacity of any fool or blackguard, by the sacred name of Teaching.

The ultimate form of censorship is assassination.

Under Socialism, you would not be allowed to be poor. You would be forcibly fed, clothed, lodged, taught, and employed whether you liked it or not. If it were discovered that you had not character and industry enough to be worth all this trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly manner; but whilst you were permitted to live, you would have to live well.

But the changes from the crab apple to the pippin, from the wolf and fox to the house dog, from the charger of Henry V to the brewer's draught horse and the racehorse, are real; for here Man has played the god, subduing Nature to his intention, and ennobling or debasing life for a set purpose. And what can be done with a wolf can be done with a man.

It is the tame elephants who enjoy capturing the wild ones.

What is proposed is nothing but the replacement of the old unintelligent, inevitable, almost unconscious fertility by an intelligently controlled, conscious fertility, and the elimination of the mere voluptuary from the evolutionary process.

When you go to women," says Nietzsche, "take your whip with you.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

The power to exterminate is too grave to be left in any hands but those of a thoroughly Communist government.