Quotes About Control

Remember ... the middle class have to be kept under control. They understand that, and police themselves. Not with guns and gulags, but with social codes. The right way to have sex, treat your wife, flirt at tennis parties or start an affair. There are unspoken rules we all have to learn.

Police violence, I noted, was directly proportional to police boredom, and not to any resistance offered by protestors.

The human body as an obedient coolie, to be fed and hosed down, and given just enough sexual freedom to sedate itself.

Human beings today ... are surrounded by huge institutions we can never penetrate.

Moderation is the key-note of lasting enjoyment.

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

Vinet gave his wife the terrible, fixed, cold look with which men enforce their absolute dominion. The hapless helot, punished incessantly for not having the one thing that was wanted of her, a fortune, took up her cards.

Time is their tyrant: it fails them, it escapes them; they can neither expand it nor cut it short.

If many man fail to be masters in their own house this is not from lack of willingness, but of talent. As for those who are ready to undergo the toils of this terrible duel, it is quite true that they must needs possess great moral force.

To sum up, the world is mine without effort of mine, and the world has not the slightest hold on me.

Old maids who have never yielded in their habits of life or in their characters to other lives and other characters, as the fate of woman exacts, have, as a general thing, a mania for making others give way to them.

Women understand better than we do the art of analyzing the two human feelings, which alternately form their weapons of attack, or the weapons of which they are victims. They have the instinct of love, because it is their whole life, and of jealousy, because it is almost the only means by which they can control us.

Living like that utterly convinced me of the extreme limitations of language. I was just a child then, so I had only an intuitive understanding of the degree to which one losses control of words once they are spoken or written. It was then that I first felt a deep curiosity about language, and understood it as a tool that encompasses both a single moment and eternity.

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It helps to fight authority with authority

I felt powerless to stop the energy from rush- ing out of my body; it seemed to dissipate with a hissing sound into the darkness.

Una specie di reazione chimica su cui non ho nessun controllo. Posso solo stare a guardare. Entra in circolazione con il sangue e in meno di due ore ha preso possesso di me. L'attesa invade completamente l'atmosfera dell'appartamento. Sono ricoperta da una membrana in cui né televisione, né telefonate di amici, né bagni caldi né libri possono fare breccia. Non riesco a vedere più niente. I pensieri più assurdi mi possiedono, come spiriti maligni.

I went to school for me -- I didn't do it to make any sort of statement. So the very first year I was in school I wasn't there under my own name. It was very incognito. And then it leaked and I said, "Ok let me control this story," and that's when I started talking about it.

It's a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.

Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.

Brandalism Any advertisement in public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It belongs to you. It's yours to take, rearrange and re-use. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.

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The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It's people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.

You owe the companies nothing. You especially don't owe them any courtesy. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don't even start asking for theirs.