Quotes About Control

Words are important he realized, especially in a nation ruled by its media.

I wonder if we have it all backward. And I wonder how the world might be if we viewed the very reason for our existence as being not about control and security but about surrender. Not to our fears and insecurities but to our sense of what is possible, to the belief that we all have the ability to shape the world as we imagine it, and that our actions reflect this imagined world until it becomes not imagined, but real.

Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?

Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.

How many of his small gestures and postures in the present were embodied echoes of the past, repetitions just beneath the threshold of his consciousness? What would happen to the past if you brought those involuntary muscle memories under your control and edited them, edited them out?

In war, no variable is more important, and less easy to control, than the element of surprise.

The double agents were now controlling their controllers.

As controlling officer, Bevan would become the mastermind of wartime deception, overseeing a worldwide web of deceit and mystification from the underground warren beneath Whitehall known as the Cabinet War Rooms.

When a man modifies or adorns a woman's name, or dispatches an endearment into her vicinity, he is attempting at once to alter and deny her, to dilute the privacy of the category she has inherited and to require that she respond as someone quite less than herself.

Knowledge is many things, but it definitely is not power. "Dread" is a better word for it, I think, though I do understand how that ultimately fails as a slogan.

Mayflower Systems regularly bought and destroyed small companies, mostly to crush progress. And maybe also simply to frighten the universe and increase world sadness?

I hope I can never trust my wife. If I trust her it means I know her. If I know her it means I understand her. If I understand her it means I can control her, and if I can control her it would make her boring and uninteresting… Dear god I hope I can never trust my wife…

I imagine God creating humans was much like cavemen creating fire… First it sparkles brightly, full of life and beauty. But then it grows, stronger and fiercer until it becomes dangerous and uncontrollable… Then its creator can only stand on the hill and wait for his creation to die.

Can you understand what the rats are saying?" "No. But I can kill them." "Why?" "Because they are never satisfied. They are like bad politicians and imperialists and rich people." "How?" "They eat up property. They eat up everything in sight. And one day when they are very hungry they will eat us up.

No one in the house had seen books for generations. We didn't even know what they were. We'd only heard that they were poisonous and that they ruined the mind, and that no one was to have anything to do with them.".

Nevertheless, despite his presence, here too regulation and supervision fell short.

Philosophically, I did not view myself as either strongly pro- or anti-regulation.

and in fact lacked the authority to do so,

But what if the economy stalled yet again, perhaps for reasons outside our control, such as fiscal stringency at home or a resurgence of the European crisis?

under Dodd's bill we would also have little role in ensuring systemic stability.

rules aren't useful unless they are enforced.

These longer-term rates are not under the Fed's direct control. Instead, they are set by participants in financial markets.

because man is a threat to man, human beings seek safety and satisfaction in authority;

Authoritarians rarely recognize their own authoritarianism. To them, authoritarianism looks like simple virtue.