Quotes About Control

Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.

The man without emotions is the one to fear.

If one delays old age or death by the use of melange or by that learned adjustment of fleshly balance which you Bene Gesserits so rightly fear, such a delay invokes only an illusion of control. Whether one walks rapidly through the sietch or slowly, one traverses the sietch. And that passage of time is experienced internally.

You have no position from which to negotiate. Certain things will be done. You will comply willingly, your compliance will be forced, or we will act without you.

We should grant power over our affairs only to those reluctant to hold it, and only under conditions that increase that reluctance.

You understand? One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim.

Hubo un tiempo en que los hombres dedicaban su pensamiento a las máquinas, con la esperanza de que ellas les harían libres. Pero esto solo permitió que otros hombres con máquinas les esclavizaran.

No conoceré el miedo. El miedo mata la mente. El miedo es la pequeña muerte que conduce a la destrucción total. Afrontaré mi miedo. Permitiré que pase sobre mí y a través de mí. Y cuando haya pasado, giraré mi ojo interior para escrutar su camino. Allá donde haya pasado el miedo ya no habrá nada. Solo estaré yo».

Individual human experience is not the overriding control factor in human behavior. The cellular social pattern dominates.

The slave makes an awful master

Facing your fears robs them of their power

Control the coinage and the courts—let the rabble have the rest.

O poder costuma isolar aqueles que o detêm em demasia. Por fim, acabam perdendo o contato com a realidade... e tombam.

There was the feeling in him then that his body had become the manifestation of some power he could no longer control. He had become a non-being, a stillness which moved itself. At the core of the non-being, there he existed, allowing himself to be led through the stress of his city, following a track so familiar in his visions that it froze his heart with grief.

Rekli su da sve tvoje slobode nestaju kad pokorno gledaš u nekog apsolutnog vladara.

Vjerske ustanove ovjekovje?uju odnos izme?u smrtnog gospodara i smrtnog sluge, re?e Leto.One stvaraju pozornicu koja privla?i ponosne ljude koji žude za mo?i sa svim njihovim kratkovidnim predrasudama!

Among my father's most important messages were that governments lie to protect themselves and they make incredibly stupid decisions.

She asked me to tell her what it is to rule," Paul said. "And I said that one commands. And she said I had some unlearning to do.

There is enough water! But Kynes doesn't wish it to be known.

He was reminded that the more he ordered the weather controlled, the more there was that required control. Absolutes only brought him closer to vagaries.

Un tempo gli uomini dedicavano il proprio pensiero alle macchine, nella speranza che esse li avrebbero liberati. Ma questo consentì ad altri uomini di servirsi delle macchine per renderli schiavi.

The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance

Evidence! What is evidence except those things you are allowed to perceive? That's what Law tries to control: carefully managed reality.

If you are corruptible and your imagination is confined to worries about loss of power, you exist in a self-destructive system