Control Quotes - page 10

Let's begin with capitalism, a word that has gone largely out of fashion. The approved reference now is to the market system. This shift minimizes - indeed, deletes - the role of wealth in the economic and social system. And it sheds the adverse connotation going back to Marx. Instead of the owners of capital or their attendants in control, we have the admirably impersonal role of market forces. It would be hard to think of a change in terminology more in the interest of those to whom money accords power. They have now a functional anonymity. (John Kenneth Galbraith)
Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control. View quote
Tracy Chapman
[...] I don't know my future. I don't know about tomorrow. I can just control for today or present, right now. [...] I don't want to think about future too much, because present is most important for me. View quote
Ayumi Hamasaki
Smash the control images. Smash the control machine. View quote
William S. Burroughs
The face of "evil" is always the face of total need. A dope fiend is a man in total need of dope. Beyond a certain frequency need knows absolutely no limit or control. In the words of total need: "Wouldn't you?" Yes you would. You would lie, cheat, inform on your friends, steal, do anything to satisfy total need. Because you would be in a state of total sickness, total possession, and not in a position to act in any other way. Dope fiends are sick people who cannot act other than they do. A rabid dog cannot choose but bite. View quote
William S. Burroughs
You see control can never be a means to any practical end. ... Control can never be a means to anything but more control ... like Junk. View quote
William S. Burroughs
A man should control his life. Mine is controlling me. View quote
Rudolph Valentino
And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations. View quote
Brian De Palma
I was always making decisions and they were easier decisions because I had control of the game, I had control of the ball. As a coach you sort of put the ball in other player's hands and let them make decisions for you. But I still get a kick out of winning basketball games and that's what I'm in this for. View quote
Larry Bird
People are just as wonderful as sunsets if I can let them be... When I look at a sunset, I don't find myself saying, "Soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner"... I don't try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds. View quote
Carl Rogers
Well I know that you worry a lot about Things you cant control There are so many things wed like to have But we just cannot hold, You've got to be kind to yourself You've got to be kind to yourself. (Zooey Deschanel)
Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny. View quote
Charles Barkley
The media is too concentrated, too few people own too much. There's really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear. It's not healthy. View quote
Ted Turner
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. View quote
Maya Angelou
Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate. View quote
Edward Said
I think President Obama is the most radical president this nation's ever seen. And in particular, I think he is a true believer in government control of the economy and of our everyday lives. In my judgment, we are facing what I consider to be the epic battle of our generation, quite literally the battle over whether we remain a free market nation. View quote
Ted Cruz
Science is a magnificent force, but it is not a teacher of morals. It can perfect machinery, but it adds no moral restraints to protect society from the misuse of the machine. It can also build gigantic intellectual ships, but it constructs no moral rudders for the control of storm tossed human vessel. It not only fails to supply the spiritual element needed but some of its unproven hypotheses rob the ship of its compass and thus endangers its cargo. View quote
William Jennings Bryan
How much reverence can you have for a Supreme Being who finds it necessary to include such phenomena as phlegm and tooth decay in His divine system of Creation? What in the world was running through that warped, evil, scatological mind of His when He robbed old people of the power to control their bowel movements? View quote
Joseph Heller
We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them. View quote
Claude Bernard
It is not unfrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their actions, mean nothing else by it but their own liberty, - to oppress without control or the restraint of laws all who are poorer or weaker than themselves. View quote
Samuel Adams
Behaviors are a choice. Feelings are sometimes out of our control. Behavior has to do with choices. (Randall Terry)
It is a mistake to suppose that the whole issue is how to free man. The issue is to improve the way in which he is controlled. View quote
B. F. Skinner
We control the content of our dreams. View quote
Thom Gunn
Sad times May follow your tracks, Bad times May bar you from Saks, Add times When Satan in slacks Breaks down your self control. View quote
Cole Porter
Journalism is one of the devices whereby industrial autocracy keeps its control over political democracy; it is the day-by-day, between-elections propaganda, whereby the minds of the people are kept in a state of acquiescence, so that when the crisis of an election comes, they go to the polls and cast their ballots for either one of the two candidates of their exploiters. View quote
Upton Sinclair