Quotes About Control

The day Man ignores woman in entirety, they will loose their control and supremacy in society and that is one of the greatest fears that women are constantly aware of

The Good thing about Money is that it can buy just anything. The bad thing about it is that it can buy 'YOU' too!

You are the slave of your mind!

in a surveillance state it was vital to reserve the ability to turn a blind eye to certain people at certain times.

It did something to the temporal lobe, one of the circuits involved in religious experience. It was supposed to put people closer to God. It did that. It also made them slaves.

The worst atrocities… Maybe half of them arose directly because the powerful had a monopoly or a near-monopoly on some key capability.

Are you wiser than humanity? Ilya's whispered in his mind, echoing Ananda. Not even you should have that power.

You will not be punished for your anger, Buddha had said. You will be punished by your anger.

Other people will reverse-engineer the technology. They'll remove the safeguards, or figure out how to build a clone system that doesn't have them. That's how it always works. Once the genie is out of the bottle, you can't control what they do.

I can't control my fingers I can't control my toes Oh no no no no no . . . Ba-ba-bamp-ba ba-ba-ba-bamp-ba I wanna be sedated

far softer than putty, indeed, to be able to do to her what they began to do then.

Ties are straightened and expressions banished.

Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?

But... but... nobody knows where they'll end up. Nobody can play God with other people's destiny.

You have the power to define yourself — remember that power; take that control. It's like a superpower, really, to be whom you want to be, to do what you want to do, to fly where you want to fly. Your life will get more complicated, but think of it as a great adventure, every damn day. You're going to have fun.

State and federal budgets, to which Asians, Hispanics, and African Americans contribute, are uniformly controlled by whites who seem to uniformly believe that the only ancestor worship worth funding is theirs.

while "freedom" from magic is certainly invoked as a constitutive element of modern modes of subjectivity, this freedom is purchased only at the price of potent new forms of social control and regimentation." -- Making Magic , p. 13

Social power is at stake in theory-making, but the workings of this power are often unacknowledged -- and overdetermined. -- Making Magic , p. 23

Just because you're in the driver's seat, doesn't mean you have to run people over.

Just because you're in the driver seat, doesn't mean you have to run people over.

Just because you're in the driver's seat," he'd say, "doesn't mean you have to run people over.

There are a lot of things I don't worry about because I have a plan in place if they do.

NO MATTER how bad things are, you can always make things worse. At the same time, it is often within your power to make them better.

Rage is fear untethered by caution.