Quotes About Control

We have some control over when we retire. However, we have very little control over how long we will live.

The last thing we need in Washington is more federal hubris.

I'm a huge fan of e-books, but the more I buy and download, the more I worry that someone could just take them all away from me.

If we'd had a Svengali manager and done what we would have been told, maybe we would have had a bigger, more hugely successful career.

We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

We are not saints, gods, spiritual human beings that we can sit and decide whether a film will do well or not. It is not in our hands.

We can't legislate human nature.

When you stop people from doing certain things, there is a good chance that they will do exactly what they have been told to abjure. That is how human nature is.

The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.

I don't think that we really know our animals. We think we do because we're humans, and we think we can control things like that. We don't know anybody that we love. It could be a girlfriend or a cat. I think we just have to be at peace with that.

My take is that A.I. is taking over. A few humans might still be 'in charge,' but less and less so.

It's humiliating, being told you're not responsible enough to make your own choices in life.

I seethe at the humiliation of airport security checks.

Nobody likes to lose power or reach a point of humility.

Even though the risks of death are higher driving than flying, many people would rather drive simply because they feel they have more control driving. The facts are that only a few hundred people die a year flying, and 44,000 are killed a year driving.

I love Washington, D.C.; I love this country, but I think over the last hundred years we've built up would I call an arrogant empire: people who think the rest of us are too stupid to make our own decisions.

If the world sees that we can defend our borders... then no one will try to come to Hungary illegally.

Sheep, like people, are ungovernable when hungry.

Propaganda is as powerful as heroin; it surreptitiously dissolves all capacity to think.

Oneself, indeed, is one's own protector. One does, indeed, [make] one's own destiny.

A tyrant institutionalises stupidity, but he is the first servant of his own system and the first to be installed within it.

The modulating principle of "salary according to merit" has not failed to tempt national education itself. Indeed, just as the corporation replaces the factory, perpetual training tends to replace the school, and continuous control to replace the examination. Which is the surest way of delivering the school over to the corporation.

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Maybe speech and communication have been corrupted. They're thoroughly permeated by money - and not by accident but by their very nature. We've got to hijack speech. Creating has always been something different from communicating. The key thing may be to create vacuoles on noncommunication, circuit breakers, so that we can elude control.