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Quotes About Control

People used to making decisions sometimes like it when they're told what to do.
~ Randy Wayne White
Anger is a common derivative of fear.
~ Randy Wayne White
Raymond Tullock is like most men. His balls tell hiim he should be in charge, but his brain's just not big enough to steer the load.
~ Randy Wayne White
greater authority.
~ Rani Manicka
Electronic Nocturne The TV goes dead, killing all the newscasters. Go, loud satraps of the night, leave us alone with darkness and ourselves.
~ Ranjit Hoskote
We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity.
~ Raoul Vaneigem
The organization controlling the material equipment of our everyday life is such that what in itself would enable us to construct it richly plunges us instead into a poverty of abundance, making alienation all the more intolerable as each convenience promises liberation and turns out to be only one more burden. We are condemned to slavery to the means of liberation.
~ Raoul Vaneigem
Those whom Power can neither govern nor kill, it taxes with madness.
~ Raoul Vaneigem
Those who organize the world organize both suffering and the pain-killers for dealing with it;
~ Raoul Vaneigem
Whatever you possess possesses you in return.
~ Raoul Vaneigem
Religious beliefs concealed humans from themselves, a Bastille walling them up in a pyramidal world with God at the summit and the king just below. Alas,
~ Raoul Vaneigem
The bourgeoisie does not dominate, it exploits. It does not need to be master, it prefers to use. Why has nobody seen that the principle of productivity simply replaced the principle of feudal authority? Why has nobody wanted to understand?
~ Raoul Vaneigem
Consider the games that get all the attention lately: shooters,* fighting games,* and war games. They are not subtle about their love of power. The gap between these games and cops and robbers is small as far as the players are
~ Raph Koster
All freedoms need to be constricted, otherwise the result is infinite conflict and the triumph of the fittest.
~ Raphael Cohen-Almagor
**(c)(p) PEOPLE LOVE TO ASK-WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? THIS QUESTION OF MORTALITY SEEMS SO PREVALENT IN THESE LATTER DAYS. SO I ASK-WHAT IS DYING? ITS NOTHING MORE THAN JUST LEAVING AN EMPTY SPACE-WHICH MAY/MAY NOT BE FILLED, EVER. THERE IS A VOID WHICH FOLLOWS EVERY BEING. ITS THE ABSENCE OF YOUR BEING-NOT BEING HERE-IN THE PASSAGE OF TIME. IT BECOMES THE ABSENCE OF TIME ITSELF WHICH NO MORTAL HAS CONTROL OVER.
~ RAS CARDO REGGAE
**(C)(P)- I COINED AND CREATED THE TERM-POSTURAL CEREBRATION- WHICH REFERS TO THE- UNCONTROLLED ACTIONS- OF THE MIND/BRAIN AT CERTAIN TIMES OF DAY OR NIGHT WHICH ARE CAPABLE OF CAUSING ANXIETY ATTACKS, PARANOIA, FEAR, AND HYSTERIA.MANY PEOPLE SUFFER THIS NOT KNOWING WHAT CAUSES IT..LIKE A MIND RACING OUT OF CONTROL. MY RESEARCH CONTINUES.
~ RAS CARDO REGGAE
Anyone who states- my country is not so innocent- may be stating a truth which goes not only to his feelings about patriotism, but speaks to his state of mind and ambivalence as to what he will do should he gain an office of power and control. For such is the hallmark of demagogues.
~ RAS CARDO REGGAE
never let a politician grant you a favor or else they will want to own you forever. Stand firm, it will always be -we and dem, but we know this:- someone will have to pay for the innocent blood shed everyday.
~ RAS CARDO REGGAE
In the words of one scholar, "by virtue of Israel's definition of itself as a Jewish state and the state's exclusionary policies and laws, what was conferred on Palestinians was in effect second-class citizenship." Most significantly, the martial regime under which the Palestinians lived granted the Israeli military near-unlimited authority to control the minutiae of their lives.57
~ Rashid Khalidi
Spiritual progress is when on becomes free not only of the knowledge which is inevitably from the past, but also from the need to know... and a desire to predict and control.
~ Ravi Ravindra
The freedom of Brahman surrounds those whose minds are controlled, who know themselves and who release themselves from selfish desire and anger with sustained effort. (5.24
~ Ravi Ravindra
Love is a commitment that will be tested in the most vulnerable areas of spirituality, a commitment that will force you to make some very difficult choices. It is a commitment that demands that you deal with your lust, your greed, your pride, your power, your desire to control, your temper, your patience, and every area of temptation that the Bible clearly talks about. It demands the quality of commitment that Jesus demonstrates in His relationship to us.
~ Ravi Zacharias
The terrible tyranny of the majority.
~ Ray Bradbury
I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.
~ Ray Bradbury