Quotes About Control

The desire to control everything is giving way to pluralism, uniformity to diversity, centralization to localism, opacity to transparency, and immobilisme, or the resistance to change, to experimentation. The state is beginning to move in each case (though it could move a lot faster).

Bringing Leviathan under control will be the heart of global politics

Just because something is useful, it does not mean we should give away freedoms to get it.

There are thirty-two closed-circuit television cameras near the flat where George Orwell wrote 1984. The night watchman standing guard at the gate has become the nanny inside the home and the office, hanging over your shoulder in the kitchen, sitting room, boardroom, and even bedroom. But it is not a very good nanny.

by discouraging people from thinking for themselves and feeding them hopes of happiness in the next world, it sought to make them content with their lowly condition in this one.

But the idea that this world is not self-explanatory and that revelation from beyond it is necessary to understand it is profoundly distasteful to us humans. It means that we are not in control of our own destiny or able to make our own disposition of things for our own benefit. This thought, the thought that we cannot supply our ultimate needs for ourselves, that we are dependent on someone or something utterly beyond us, is deeply troublesome.

Now, a decade and a half later, after re-reading Orwell and Huxley, we need to ask ourselves a tough question: is the Internet really unique in being immune to censorship or control?

if you allow central control of a network, then innovation will proceed at the speed deemed suitable by the controller, rather than by the inventiveness of outsiders.

Who is there who speaks and it happens—unless the Lord has ordained it?" Lamentations 3:37

themselves. I have wondered sometimes if a man, to be a man, must not master a woman and if a woman to be a woman must not know herself mastered.

Bing: You're a heel…a low down rotten heel…anything that doesn't go your way, anything that you can't have you destroy.

If the situation was hopeless, their propoganda would be unessasary

It's my life and I'm responsible for it. No one's going to save you. Accountability

Democracy is like a tamborine - not everyone can be trusted with it.

Censorship is the commonest social blasphemy because it is mostly concealed, built into us by indolence, self-interest and cowardice.

Jocelyn told me that she had never seen me so out of control of my life. Even the recent record of my mishandling of events with Mary and Francine might have alerted her to the fact that I often confronted problems like an improvising chimpanzee faced with the dashboard of a jumbo jet. What she did not grasp was that old muddle-minded Johnny was trying, above all else, in a spirit of life-long caprice, to re-establish his own authority and get his simian claws on the levers.

The bit was in my mouth. At last, for the first time since sleeping in crab-infested blankets in the dressing-room at Hayling Island, living on evaporated milk and biscuits, swanking about as a peroxided Hamlet, to an audience of geriatric holiday-makers, I had contrived some sort of personal control over the whole brash enterprise. I would only have myself to blame. The release from benign paternalism was firingly enjoyable.

Sin also carries on its war by entangling the affections and drawing them into an alliance against the mind. Grace may be enthroned in the mind, but if sin controls the affections, it has seized a fort from which it will continually assault the soul. Hence, as we shall see, mortification is chiefly directed to take place upon the affections.

Never underestimate the power of the mind to disempower.

Jezebel spirit is ruthless and deceptive, even to the person who manifests this spirit.

If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.

Sleep is a daily reminder from God that we are not God. Once a day God sends us to bed like patients with a sickness. The sickness is a chronic tendency to think we are in control and that our work is indispensable. To cure us of this disease God turns us into helpless sacks of sand once a day.

What masters us has become our god; and Paul warns us about those whose "god is their belly" (Philippi- ans 3:19).