Quotes About Control

Je n'ai plus aucune force, aucun courage, aucune domination sur moi aucun pouvoir même de mettre en mouvement ma volonté. Je ne peux plus vouloir ; mais quelqu'un veut pour moi ; et j'obéis.

How small a thing is needed to make or ruin us!

De oly mélységesen izgatottnak érezte magát, hogy fölmerült benne ez a kérdés: félhet-e az ember akarata ellenére? És elárasztotta lelkét ez a kétely, ez a nyugtalanság, ez a borzalom. Mi történik akkor, ha egy akaratánál erÅ'sebb, uralkodó és ellenállhatatlan hatalom legyÅ'zi? Igen, mi történik akkor?

We still have some time to take advantage of the fact that radio and television stations are not yet guarded by the army.

The dominion of the concentrated spectacle is a police state.

The spectacle is a permanent opium war designed to force people to equate goods with commodities and to equate satisfaction with a survival that expands according to its own laws.

The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist, and its power is employed above all to enforce this claim.

Fascism is technologically equipped primitivism.

The power to homogenize is the heavy artillery that has battered down all Chinese walls.

there is no final inner cabal, no capo di tutti capi (boss of all bosses) pulling the strings: the final instance 'calling the shots' (often literally) is the market economy itself.

Whitman, for example, self-published (and typeset!) Leaves of Grass. Self-publishing could change from stigma to bragging point—maybe we could change the term to "artisanal publishing" and foster the image of authors lovingly crafting their books with total control over the process.

In some cases . . . the knife can turn savagely upon the person wielding it. . . . You use the knife carefully because you know it doesn't care who it cuts.

Do not call up that which you cannot put down.

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right.

Do you still tell me that I have power over the waves? Oh! foolish men, do you not know that to God alone belongs such power? He alone rules earth and sky and sea, and we and they alike are His subjects, and must obey Him. The

The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic.

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey-cage.

Public opinion, in its raw state, gushes out in the immemorial form of the mob's fear. It is piped into central factories, and there it is flavored and colored, and put into cans.

Government today is growing too strong to be safe. There are no longer any citizens in the world there are only subjects. They work day in and day out for their masters they are bound to die for their masters at call. Out of this working and dying they tend to get less and less.

All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.

People say we need religion when what they really mean is we need police.

It takes advantage of every passing craze and delusion of the mob to dispose of those who oppose it, and it maintains a complex and highly effective machine for launching such crazes and delusions when the supply of them lags.

Third-rate men, of course, exist in all countries, but it is only here that they are in full control of the state, and with it of all the national standards.

Ihre Hand ist an eurer Kehle, doch seht ihr Sie nicht.