Quotes About Control

He's but a windlet that blows the dust about my ankles. There is another that I flee, and he is a storm that sweeps the worlds aside and throws them plunging at each other.

They are useful, but they are too strong—and too uncontrolled. They are Outlanders, educated apart from religion. On the one hand, we put knowledge into their hands, and on the other, we remove our strongest hold upon them.

A nuclear blaster is a good weapon, but it can point both ways.

The day of the week on which the tour took place was known to all workers. All devices in its path ought to have been carefully neutralized or locked, since it was unreasonable to expect human beings to withstand the temptation to handle knobs, keys, handles and pushbuttons.

George Weston, after all was only a man—poor thing—and his wife made full use of every device which a clumsier and more scrupulous sex has learned, with reason and futility, to fear.

Remember, to be truly effective, it is not necessary to hold the mind under a tight, controlling barrier which to the intelligent probe is as informative as a naked mentality. Rather, one should cultivate an innocence, an awareness of self, and an unselfconsciousness of self which leaves one nothing to hide.

Finge went on. "There are some things, however, they must not know. Prime among them, of course, is the manner in which we alter Reality when necessary. The insecurity such knowledge would arouse would be most harmful. It is always necessary to breed out of Reality any factors that might lead to such knowledge and we have never been troubled with it.

the telemetrists began to use a computer to program the computer that designed the program for the computer that programmed the robot-controlling computer. There was nothing but confusion.

they are trained from birth to accept authority.

I like you two. You're inferior creatures, with poor reasoning faculties, but I really feel a sort of affection for you. You have served the Master well, and he will reward you for that. Now that your service is over, you will probably not exist much longer, but as long as you do, you shall be provided food, clothing and shelter, so long as you stay out of the control room and the engine room.

Mankind has lost its own say in its future.' 'It never had any, really.

Los matemáticos manejan grandes cantidades, pero nunca suyas…

Mankind's future] was always at the mercy of economic and sociological forces it did not understand—at the whims of climate, and the fortunes of war. Now the Machines understand them; and no one can stop them, since the Machines will deal with them as they are dealing with the Society,—having, as they do, the greatest of weapons at their disposal, the absolute control of our economy.

Pero ella había muerto. Su matrimonio sólo duró cinco años; y después comprendió que sólo podría vivir contra aquel vago y temible enemigo que le privaba de su dignidad de hombre al controlar su destino, que convertía la vida en una triste lucha contra un fin predestinado, que hacía de todo el universo un juego de ajedrez odioso y mortal.

Imagine that. Terrible, terrible, the way we have all bent to the yoke; the affection we have for the harness about us.

Por la Galaxia! ¿Cuándo puede saber un hombre que no es un títere? ¿Cómo puede saber un hombre que no es un títere?

All normal life, Peter, consciously or otherwise, resents domination. If the domination is by an inferior, or by a supposed inferior, the resentment becomes stronger. Physically, and, to an extent, mentally, a robot—any robot—is superior to human beings. What makes him slavish, then? Only the First Law! Why, without it, the first order you tried to give a robot would result in your death. Unstable? What do you think?" "Susan

He was detecting what we—he and I—knew he would detect—that we were not our own masters. And I didn't want to know!

it is an advantage for the murderer to be in charge of the murder investigation.

My fury does not blind me.

Men who rule by tricks of the mind need not necessarily be men in obvious power.

He estado allí. ¡Es una ratonera hedionda! Supongo que puede usted llamarla república, pero siempre hay alguien de la familia Argo que consigue salir elegido Comodoro. Y si da la casualidad de que no te gusta... te ocurren cosas .

Now any dogma, primarily based on faith and emotionalism, is a dangerous weapon to use on others, since it is almost impossible to guarantee that the weapon will never be turned on the user.

Aparentemente, las multitudes se manejan más fácilmente que los individuos. Parece una paradoja.