Quotes About Control

Every class is unfit to govern.' The problem is not the abuse of power, echoed the motivational speaker Michael Cloud more recently, but the power to abuse. The

The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all. It is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry to put down dissent and originality,' said H.L. Mencken.

God, Smith just as surely defenestrated Leviathan.

The number of countries that censor the internet has grown steadily, and now stands at more than forty.

He asked the question: 'What kind of company do we want this to be?', and the answer built upon three principles: that people are happiest when they have personal control over their life; that people are 'thinking, energetic, creative and caring'; and that the best human organisations are ones like voluntary bodies that are not managed by others, but in which participants coordinate among themselves. Defying

The fact that heart disease is a symptom of lack of control explains a good deal about its sporadic appearance. It explains why so many people in senior jobs have heart attacks soon after they retire and 'take it easy'. From running offices they often move to lowly and menial jobs (washing dishes, walking the dog) in domestic environments run by their spouses.

Many modern accounts of the history of eugenics present it as an example of the dangers of letting science, genetics especially, out of control. It is much more an example of the danger of letting government out of control.

George Washington said that 'Government is not reason. It is not eloquence. Government is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant, and a fearful master.

Again and again, we have told ourselves that there is a top–down description of the world, and a top–down prescription by which we should live.

Many of the smartest people and most creative talents are working for the brainwashers, using dazzling images, sex and violence to rob us of our sanity.

The anger of a meek man is like fire struck out of steel, hard to be got out, and when it is, soon gone.

The human brain is a wonderful thought-producing machine. It turns out millions of thoughts every day. Most of the time, this makes our lives much easier. But unfortunately, we can't fully control what our brain thinks about.

It's almost as if the harder you try to forget something, the harder your brain tries to remember it. This is why forcing yourself to forget about something that happened to you is impossible. It's also why you can't simply force yourself to get rid of emotions that you don't want.

I'm not an alcoholic—I don't have the discipline to become one—

Benjamin Franklin]. Not only one of our nation's founding geniuses but a printer and publisher, too... He knew that to form the soul of America, one must control the presses.

I have both held and beheld unlimited power and of it I know but one thing. It drives men mad.' - Alexander the Great

Self-actualization, for a man, is self-mastery, the strength to govern his appetites and passions and not be governed by them.

We try to fix the outside so much, but our control of the outer world is limited, temporary, and often, illusory.

Military guys are rarely as smart as they think they are, and they've never gotten over the fact that civilians run the military.

When you have enough power and money, you can dictate the meanings of words.

Last things were so strange. Most people had no control over of what their last acts would be.

People say depression lies. Anxiety is just stupid. It's unable to tell the difference between things that are actually scary (being buried alive, for example) and things that are not scary at all (being in bed under the covers). It hits all the same buttons. Stop. Go. Up. Down. It's all the same to anxiety.

Prefects. I had learned this one. Student council types, but with superpowers. They who must be obeyed.

She's like the Hulk," Nate explained. "But instead of transforming when she gets mad, it's when she sees crafts. And she doesn't turn big and green. She just makes crafts. So not like the Hulk, really.