Quotes About Control

En cualquier sociedad, la libertad de pensamiento sólo tendrá, probablemente, significación directa para una pequeña minoría. Pero esto no supone que alguien esté calificado o deba tener poder para elegir a quienes se reserva esta libertad. Ello no justifica por cierto a ningún grupo de personas para pretender el derecho de determinar lo que la gente deba pensar o creer» (p. 203).

they knew what we're doing for them, they'd kiss our feet. But mentally they are closer to the crocodile and the hippopotamus than to you or me. That's why we decide what is good for them and have them sign those contracts.

Toda la simpatía de Adam Smith se vuelca hacia las colonias inglesas en Norteamérica, los futuros Estados Unidos. Explica que han prosperado mucho más que las de España y Portugal porque Inglaterra les dio más libertad para producir y comerciar, a diferencia del severo control que Lisboa y Madrid imponían a sus colonias. Y, una vez más, subraya que las limitaciones al comercio constituyen «un crimen contra la humanidad».

la peor enemiga de la propiedad y del gobierno era la nobleza latifundista, aquella aristocracia rentista que a menudo se las arregló para derribar a los gobiernos que limitaban sus poderes

También en sus relaciones conyugales los roles hembra-varón se invierten muy pronto; Emma pasa a ser la personalidad dominante y Charles la dominada. Ella impone el tono, se hace siempre su voluntad, al principio sólo en cuestiones domésticas y luego en los otros dominios: Emma se encarga

Solo la libertad le interesaba ahora para manejar su soledad a su capricho.

La libertad está estrechamente ligada a la coerción, es decir a aquello que la niega o limita.

managers did that as a warning but also for amusement. They enjoyed it. Making people suffer, competing in cruelties, was a vice they had contracted from engaging so frequently in flagellations, beatings, and tortures. Often, when they were drunk, they looked for pretexts for their blood games.

Hay, claro, estadios intermedios entre una democracia intervenida por una determinada política parcial o atenuada de controles y una sociedad totalitaria o policial donde el Estado controla prácticamente el cien por ciento de las actividades sociales. Pero

Do as I tell you,' shouted Annabelle, 'or I shall pinch you and pinch you until you are black and blue.

A deus ex machina will never appear in real life so you best make other arrangements.

Once you slaughter the lamb, you are capable of everything and anything, and the world is yours.

Si certains lieux publics avaient survécu aux répressions du régime, soit c'était pour nous laisser un espace de liberté, soit c'était de l'ignorance.

Chouka era muy divertida. Por desgracia, cuando dos años más tarde se casó, su esposo le prohibió verme. Para él, yo era una persona amoral

No loitering. Anyone caught loitering will be subject to the predicate is loitering.

You can have faith or you can have control, but you cannot have both." If you want God to do something off the chart, you have to take your hands off the controls.

Never had a general so effectively willed away the facts.

The United States had complete control of the air over all of Vietnam, and could presumably deliver a decisive blow at will. The failure to do so was blamed on the very notion of "limited war." America was fighting with one hand—or so the story went.

Steele gave the unapologetic impression that he could break you with his bare hands if it weren't for his strict devotion to Jesus and army discipline.

Anger is uncomfortable; it is useful; it announces our boundaries and can goad us in the direction of our dreams; if unchanneled, it is a highly destructive force; if channeled for change, it is a booster rocket.

As far back as man's history goes the growth of police powers immediately preceded and caused the fall and destruction of each culture.

They knew that the police worked unremittingly, unceasingly, always and ever to bring every phase of human activity under their control.

I felt God had conned me by telling me to marry Grace, and allowed Grace to rule over me since she was controlling our sex life. I loved Grace, but in the bedroom I did not enjoy her and wondered how many years I could white-knuckle fidelity.

An animal will conquer others. A Spirit-filled man conquers himself – self-discipline, self-control.