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Quotes About Control

The system of mass incarceration depends almost entirely on the cooperation of those it seeks to control.
~ Michelle Alexander
Mass incarceration is a massive system of racial and social control.
~ Michelle Alexander
There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Our society, including the liberals, must understand that there must be order.
~ Vladimir Putin
If you have Trump avoiding income tax and money coming in, and then he's still able to control it and use it as if it was his income to help his interests, then you're starting to see a bigger legal problem.
~ David Fahrenthold
Some growths can be detected early, making for increased accuracy in diagnosis. Some can be cured and others controlled.
~ Harold E. Varmus
I'm for increased funding for the Centers for Disease Control.
~ Tim Ryan
You can tax the rich to pay for current spending. You can even tax them very heavily. But when the rich look forward for decades and see nothing but increasing taxes, debts, and government control of their businesses and assets - they will leave.
~ Porter Stansberry
You don't make a system more effective by increasing the number of regulators.
~ Heather Brooke
And that will increasingly dawn on people. The demand for controlling the commanding heights will grow.
~ Barbara Castle
As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society.
~ Robert McChesney
Our children, manipulated to become exemplary consumers, increasingly admit they do not feel 'in control' of their own Internet use.
~ Beeban Kidron
It seems to me that we are living in an increasingly unfree society.
~ Katharine Gun
It's incredible that they censor films. It's sad.
~ Dario Argento
There's value in checks and balances. And there's value in having independence in the governor's office with respect to the legislature.
~ Charlie Baker
The Fed's independence is critical.
~ Ben Bernanke
Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
The world is independent of my will.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
KNOW THAT YOUR BIGGEST RISK IS YOU It's tempting to think that projects fail because the world throws surprises at us: price and scope changes, accidents, weather, new management—the list goes on. But this is shallow thinking.
~ Bent Flyvbjerg
Communicative and deliberative approaches work well as ideals and evaluative yardsticks for decision making, but they are quite defenceless in the face of power.
~ Bent Flyvbjerg
I do really take it for an indisputable truth, and a truth that is one of the corner stones of political science--the more strictly we are watched, the better we behave.
~ bentham jeremy iii
As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, because it is impossible to tell where it ends.
~ bentham jeremy iii
There's nothing scarier than groupthink.
~ Bentley Little
My knowledge tends to lead me to the conclusion that miracles do exist, that a man's life can be completely transformed. Perhaps fate is just an accident, but the important point is that it is beyond anybody's control. It happens to them. It can still happen to me. It is possible that my fate is still to be decided.
~ berger john iii