Quotes About Control

Parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet.

Fascism is when corporations become the government.

Do not fuck with gun nuts because they are nuts about their guns.

This is the opposite of the free market.

New Rule: Apple's next device must be a computer that you control with your tongue. Thanks for eliminating the keyboard and the mouse, but pointing and pushing at things already seems too complicated and tiring. We're Americans--and until you free our hands from the computer entirely, we can never attain our ultimate goal: Web surfing while eating and masturbating.

If you can't control your peanut butter, you can't expect to control your life.

Until you stalk and overrun, you cannot devour anyone. -Hobbes

Those who insist we band together tend to see themselves in charge.

Love is like a faucet: it turns on and off.

We are not actually in charge of life, yet we behave as if we are the masters of our own destiny. The realization of this fact is quite a hard one. The ridiculousness of our pomposity and presumption can only result in anger or humor.

The fact that 'goto' can do anything is exactly why we don't use it.

If they [Plato and Aristotle] wrote about politics it was as if to lay down rules for a madhouse. And if they pretended to treat it as something really important it was because they knew that the madmen they were talking to believed themselves to be kings and emperors. They humoured these beliefs in order to calm down their madness with as little harm as possible.

This dog is mine, said those poor children; that is my place in the sun. Here is the beginning and the image of the usurpation of all the earth.

22] Flies are so mighty that they win battles, paralyse our minds, eat up our bodies.

I love the way a list makes a big hodgepodge of things simmer down and behave.

Second, the leaders had overcome the enormous pressures on successful companies to take paths they had not chosen and did not necessarily want to follow. The people in charge had remained in control, or had regained control, by doing a lot of soul searching, rejecting a lot of well-intentioned advice, charting their own course, and building the kind of business they wanted to live in, rather than accommodating themselves to a business shaped by outside forces.

Some times I think this whole world Is one big prison yeard Some of us are prisoners The rest of us are guards

Come you masters of war You that build all the guns You that build the death planes You that build the big bombs You that hide behind walls You that hide behind desks I just want you to know I can see through your masks.

Privacy is something you can sell, but you can't buy it back.

Back seat drivers don't know the feel of the wheel but they sho' know how to make a fuss Bob Dylan/Bonnie Raitt, "Let's Keep It Between Us," 1982

Passion rules the arrow that flies.

After a while you learn that privacy is something you can sell, but you can't buy it back.

Don't forget, I am above the law [to Michael Hutchence]

Tacitus said: 'Chief among the forces affecting folly is lust for power, the most flagrant of all the passions.' Once one treads in the halls of power