Quotes About Control

Conspiracy theory is the ultimate refuge of the powerless. If you cannot change your own life, it must be that some greater force controls the world.

Everything in moderation, and there's a perfect balance in this life if we can find it.

The notion of illegal plants and animals is obnoxious and ridiculous.

I define power as control over one's life. Pay is not about power. Pay is about giving up power to get the power of pay.

Instead of just letting life happen, I'm going to make it happen for me.

Life is a horse: either you ride it or it rides you.

It is curious that while one's education is the part of one's life over the conditions of which one has least individual control, the results of it are held to brand one irrevocably.

Life's values originate in circumstances over which the individual has no control.

The hand that signed the paper felled a city;Five sovereign fingers taxed the breath,Doubled the globe of dead and halved a country;These five kings did a king to death.

Great is the hand that holds dominion over Man by a scribbled name.

A hand rules heaven as a hand rules pity; hands have no tears to flow.

I believe... that security declines as security machinery expands.

We can in fact only define a weed, mutatis mutandis, in terms of the well-known definition of dirt - as matter out of place. What we call a weed is in fact merely a plant growing where we do not want it.

We can't know or say what other people do. You have to think what you want to do to get the situation where you want it to be.

I think it was the institution...I was trying to master it.

He just loved her in a limited way. Loved her best when she needed help. Loved her best when he could set the boundaries and make the rules. Loved her best when she was a smaller, younger person than he was, with no social power.

So she did not replay, but played the strategist. She retained more power by withholding an answer.

The jolt of a new purchase makes Mummy feel powerful, if only for a moment.

but she's got power—because she's got money.

So this Estella breaks the boy's heart?" "Many times over. On purpose. Estella doesn't know how to do anything else. Breaking hearts is her only power in the world.

In other words, everyone in the panopticon knew they could be watched at all times, so in the end, only minimal watching actually needed to happen. The panopticon would create a sense of paranoia so pervasive that its inhabitants became practically self-governing.

We created the Machine, to do our will, but we cannot make it do our will now. It has robbed us of the sense of space and of the sense of touch, it has blurred every human relation and narrowed down love to a carnal act, it has paralysed our bodies and our wills, and now it compels us to worship it.

If a man cannot lead up to passion, he can at all events lead down from it

Most of the inhabitants of India do not mind how India is governed. Nor are the lower animals of England concerned about England, but in the tropics the indifference is more prominent, the inarticulate world is closer at hand and readier to resume control as soon as men are tired.