Quotes About Control

Author Philip Dick once wrote, "The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.

In 1898, Tesla announced his latest invention: a way to remotely control machines with radio technology. Skepticism was widely expressed and quickly diffused thanks to his Madison Square Garden demonstration of remotely driving a small metal boat through an indoor pond. Many spectators believed that he was

I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them [the people] not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education.

He steepled his fingers in monkish solemnity. "You cannot hide from Fate, my son." Sarah grunted. "People don't have fates." "No: fates have people," Jet said, suddenly serious.

I have everything under control. It's time you realized it and let me be who I am.

Being a Sith was not just about feeling hatred and anger; it was finding a way to focus those feelings toward the attainment of mastery.

some things could never be anticipated, but he could control the way he reacted to them.

Like many a man in authority, he was sublimely happy as long as he was presenting his ideas, and as long as his ideas were meeting with agreement.

If you can own nothing, he owned it.

Our own choices might not be as good as those that are made for us.

Angst ist ein schlecht dressierter Kampfhund, den man nicht an der Leine halten kann, wenn er Blut wittert.

certain situations, even the most rationally minded people behave in absurd and illogical ways. Nine times out of ten, a person in possession of a remote control will press the buttons harder if the battery runs low. But a nickel cadmium cell isn't like a lemon, and squeezing it firmly won't produce more juice.

Jemand anderes mischt die Karten, mit denen wir spielen, und sooft wir darüber verzweifeln, so dankbar sind wir letzten Endes über die Gnade des Systems. Denn würden wir den Weg des Lebens weitergehen, wenn wir die Zukunft sehen könnten?

We always blame others. Or we blame the circumstances. But in reality there is only one person who can finish us off. Only one person has the power to completely destroy us, if we let them. And that is ourselves

A partir del sábado, primero de abril, decía el diario, todos los negocios judíos serían boicoteados. Los oficiales de las SA montarían guardia en la puerta e impedirían la entrada a cualquier persona. Asimismo, todos los médicos y abogados judíos serían objeto del boicot. Las patrullas de las SA se encargarían de controlar los despachos y las consultas para comprobar que el boicot se estaba llevando a cabo.

La población, en definitiva, debía acostumbrarse a vitorear y a ponerse en pie aunque no tuviese ningún motivo real para ello. A su vez, esto fue razón suficiente para que –¡psst!–, todos los días y todas las noches por medio de látigos de acero y taladros percutores se causara la muerte de quienes no participaban con bastante energía. Así que vitoreemos y ululemos con los lobos, heil, heil! Además se le acababa cogiendo el gusto.

Possessing strength and stillness is a sign of balance: power and serenity combined in one moment. It's challenging enough to hold either one, let alone both, in perfect equipoise, but that is the goal if we want to be balanced.

She toyed around with his smiles and emotions, till they actually turned plastic. And then, She changed the toy…

Outwardly we have a Constitutional government. We have operating within our government and political system, another body representing another form of government, a bureaucratic elite which believes our Constitution is outmoded.

He is a fool who cannot be angry; but he is a wise man who will not.

Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order.

A sword never kills anybody it is a tool in the killer's hand.

An unpopular rule is never long maintained.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us that injury that provokes it.