Quotes About Control

The personal is not political, thinks Tony: the personal is military. War is what happens when language fails.

Tonight I have a little surprise for you," he says. He laughs; it's more like a snigger. I notice that everything this evening is little. He wishes to diminish things, myself included.

She wished him to owe his recovery to her alone – to her care, to her tireless devotion. That is the other side of selflessness: its tyranny.

Languor is a more efficient method of control.

Romania, for instance, had anticipated Gilead in the eighties by banning all forms of birth control, imposing compulsory pregnancy tests on the female population, and linking promotion and wage increases to fertility.

Men are sex machines, said Aunt Lydia, and not much more. They only want one thing. You must learn to manipulate them, for your own good. Lead them around by the nose; that is a metaphor. It's nature's way. It's God's device. It's the way things are.

remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest.

As for the adverse publicity, they could squelch it at source, since the media Corps controlled what was news and what wasn't. And the Internet was such a jumble of false and true factoids that no one believed what was on it any more, or else they believed all of it, which amounted to the same thing.

Our big mistake was teaching them to read. We won't do that again.

God isn't what they say," she said. She said you could believe in Gilead or you could believe in God, but not both.

I embrace Fate like a lover. All my life, Fate has wished to be my lover and tried to govern me. Now I turn to submit to his embraces.

La moda, la comida, la diversión, los viajes, todo se regulaba en aras del esfuerzo de guerra.

monopolio cada vez mayor del uso de la fuerza

I'm riding you with a slack rein, my pet, but don't forget that I'm riding with curb and spurs just the same.

Yes, life was very sweet and cosy with Scarlett - as long as she had her own way

So I think I'll remove him from your mind forever, this way. I'll put my hands, so, on each side of your head and I'll smash your skull between them like a walnut and that will blot him out.

You're so brutal to those who love you, Scarlett. You take their love and hold it over their heads like a whip.

the way small Mrs. Tarleton bullied her grown sons and laid her riding crop on their backs if the occasion seemed to warrant it.

The ultimate promise of technology is to make us master of a world that we command by the push of a button.

Technology is ruled by two types of people: those who manage what they do not understand, and those who understand what they do not manage.

It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.

You can try to control people, or you can try to have a system that represents reality. I find that knowing what's really happening is more important than trying to control people.

The essence of wealth is the capacity to control the forces of nature, and the extent of wealth depends upon the level of technology and the ability to create new knowledge.

The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free