Quotes About Control

Tyrannies have long lists of rights. What they do not have is structural restraints on the power of government.

Ciò che avviene, non avviene tanto perché alcuni vogliono che avvenga, quanto perché la massa degli uomini abdica alla sua volontà, lascia fare, lascia aggruppare i nodi che poi solo la spada potrà tagliare, lascia promulgare le leggi che poi solo la rivolta farà abrogare, lascia salire al potere gli uomini che poi solo un ammutinamento potrà rovesciare

En líneas generales la vida se esfuerza, una y otra vez, por demostrarnos todo lo que ignoramos, lo que no queremos ver, y el poco control que tenemos sobre las cosas. Alrededor de nuestra pobre tranquilidad pasan cosas terribles, de las que nosotros no queremos enterarnos.

we must use a firm hand.

I saw in myself a leader who was so sure of the brilliance of his own ideas that he couldn't allow brilliance in anyone else's; a leader who felt he was so 'enlightened' that he needed to see workers negatively in order to prove his enlightenment; a leader so driven to be the best that he made sure no one else could be as good as he was.

Because then we're all doomed. That's to say that our entire experience, even our thoughts and feelings, are controlled and caused by others. It's to believe that we're not responsible for who we've become.

If it's a shitshow, you can no longer hold your shit together. Access to shit-holding has been denied.

To get angry is easy, to get angry with the right person, the right moment and for the right reason is difficult.

What can you answer? Now be careful, don't arouse my spite, Or with my slipper I'll take you napping, faces slapping Left and right.

Under every rock lurks a politician.

Whatever lies within our power to do lies also within our power not to do.

Anger Is A Gift

It is also in the interests of the tyrant to make his subjects poor... the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting.

Choice not chance determines your destiny [my family motto...credited to Aristotle]

Anyone can get angry, but to do this to the right person, to the right extent, at the right time, with the right motive, and in the right way, that is not for everyone, nor is it easy.

When states are democratically governed according to law, there are no demagogues, and the best citizens are securely in the saddle; but where the laws are not sovereign, there you find demagogues. The people become a monarch... such people, in its role as a monarch, not being controlled by law, aims at sole power and becomes like a master.

Men do not become tyrants in order that they may not suffer cold.

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

Choice, not chance, determines your destiny.

Moderation in all things

The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it

Radicalism is a luxury of stability because only when we have everything under control can we dare to change things.

For that some should rule and others be ruled is a thing not only necessary but also expedient; from the hour of their birth, some are marked out for subjection, others for rule.

Among people lacking self-restraint, those apt to be impulsive40 are better than those who are in possession of an argument [logos] but do not abide by it. For