Quotes About Control

Time could be made to serve the mind.

Surely you know bureaucracies always become voracious aristocracies after they attain commanding power.

Where is the weapon with which I enforce your bondage? You give it to me every time you open your mouth.

That which submits rules.

A good bureaucracy is the best tool of oppression ever invented.

Bir zamanlar, insanlar düÅŸünme iÅŸini makinelere devretmiÅŸ, böylece özgürleÅŸmeyi umut etmiÅŸlerdi; ama bu, makinelere sahip baÅŸka insanlar?n onlar? köleleÅŸtirmesine yol açt? sadece.

Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit. This is the fine point on which all the legal professions of history have based their job security.

Culture! They dispense culture the better to rule. Beauty! They promote the beauty which enslaves. They create a literate ignorance—easiest thing of all. They leave nothing to chance. Chains! Everything they do forges chains, enslaves. But slaves always revolt.

Power tends to isolate those who hold too much of it. Eventually they lose touch with reality… and fall.

You seldom learn the names of the truly wealthy and powerful. You see only their spokesmen. The political arena makes a few exceptions to this but does not reveal the full power structure.

How ignorant a man can become on a diet of managed history.

Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free.

The wise despot...maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

It's an old, old trick of autocratic rule," Idaho said. "Alia knows it well. Good subjects must feel guilty. The guilt begins as a feeling of failure. The good autocrat provides many opportunities for failure in the populace.

Each of us is the enemy [...] to the other and to himself. That's what I mean: I'm the enemy within myself. Unless I master that enemy, I always lose.

QUESTION: Who governs the governors? ANSWER: Entropy.

My father rules an entire planet. He's losing it.

In their passion for sameness, the tyrants made themselves more and more powerful. All others grew correspondingly weaker and weaker. New bureaus and directorates, odd ministries, leaped into existence for the most improbable purposes. These became the citadels of a new aristocracy, rulers who kept the giant wheel of government careening along, spreading destruction, violence, and chaos wherever they touched.

It was another of the essential ingredients that she felt her son needed: people with a goal. Such people would be easy to imbue with fervor and fanaticism. They could be wielded like a sword to win back Paul's place for him.

Divide and rule, subdivide and rule even more powerfully, fragment and rule absolutely." "That's

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer.

When religion and politics ride the same cart, when that cart is driven by a living holy man (baraka), nothing can stand in their path.

What religion and self-interest cannot hide, governments can, Edric said.

When the populace recognizes its chains. Keep the populace blind and unquestioning.