Quotes About Control

If you want to be successful, Sayuri, you must be sure that men's feelings remain always under your control.

So let me tell you, Nicky, there's nothing wrong with being scared to death. It can happen to the best. What counts is hanging on, somehow staying in control and doing what you know you should.

They dreamed of power with the object of abolishing power; of ruling over the people to wean them from the habit of being ruled.

We whip the groaning masses of the country towards a theoretical future happiness, which only we can see.

The less consciously we drift with the wind, the more willingly we do it; the more consciously, the less willingly.

the artist rules his subjects by turning them into accomplices.

The exercise of a skill is always under the dual control (a) of a fixed code of rules (which may be innate or acquired by learning) and (b) of a flexible strategy, guided by environmental pointers- the lie of the land.

The controls of a skilled activity generally function below the level of consciousness on which that activity takes place. The code is a hidden persuader. This applies not only to our visceral activities and muscular skills, but also to the skill of perceiving the world around us in a coherent and meaningful manner.

It is the essence of power that it accrues to those with the ability to determine the nature of the real.

Perhaps because there are those who believe that authority is all of a piece and that to challenge it anywhere is to threaten it everywhere.

All organisation is and must be grounded on the idea of exclusion and prohibition just as two objects cannot occupy the same space

If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner...if I let it slip from my tongue, I am ITS prisoner.

Fate shuffles the cards and we play.

Knowledge is power. The devil it is! One man can have a great deal of knowledge without its giving him the least power, while another possesses supreme authority but next to no knowledge.

Der Mensch kann wohl tun was er will, aber er kann nicht wollen was er will.

Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control. For we cannot alter our heart; its basis is determined by motives; and our head deals with objective facts, and applies to them rules which are immutable. Any given individual is the union of a particular heart with a particular head.

That woman is by nature intended to obey is shown by the fact that every woman who is placed in the unnatural position of absolute independence at once attaches herself to some kind of man, by whom she is controlled and governed; this is because she requires a master. If she, is young, the man is a lover; if she is old, a priest.

She has tender feet, for she walks not on the hard earth, but treads on the heads of men

O Estado não proibirá ninguém de portar continuamente pensamentos sobre assassinato e envenenamento, desde que saiba com certeza que o medo do carrasco e da guilhotina a todo momento obstará os efeitos desse querer.

Das Schicksal mischt die Karten, und wir spielen.

That woman is by nature meant to obey may be seen by the fact that every woman who is placed in the unnatural position of complete independence; immediately attaches herself to some man, by whom she allows herself to be guided and ruled. It is because she needs a lord and master. If she is young, it will be a lover; if she is old, a priest.

Time is continually pressing upon us, never letting us take breath, but always coming after us, like a taskmaster with a whip.

A man strives to get direct mastery over things either by understanding them or by compulsion. But a woman is always and everywhere driven to indirect mastery, namely through a man; all her direct mastery being limited to him alone.

Will is the lord of all worlds: everything belongs to it, and therefore no one single thing can ever give it satisfaction, but only the whole, which is endless.