“Jealousy is perhaps the most involuntary of all strong emotions. It steals consciousness, it lies deeper than thought. It is always there, like a blackness in the eye, it discolours the world.”
“The censors of our age do not yet burn books, they attempt to restrict speech in the name of offense . The tactics may be different but the desire for control is the same.”
“First and foremost, the most profound weapon a nation or special interest can possess is “control” over information. This contributes to control over the narrative and the meme is the embryo of the narrative.”
“You can t control it. Life is not something you wield.”
“All of this evokes the dicta of successful historic propagandists described earlier. From Alinsky s Rules for Radicals: > Ridicule is man s most potent weapon. > Keep the pressure on. Never let up. > development of operations that will keep a constant pressure on the opposition. > Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. > Not every item of news should be published. Rather must those who control news policies endeavor to make every item of news serve a certain purpose. > Propaganda must facilitate the displacement of aggression by specifying the targets for hatred.”
“You can never totally control your ego, but you can understand it enough to make it control itself by convincing it that you are doing what it wants.”
“Sometimes I think the greatest things God teaches us are only found when we realize that we were never in control in the first place. I think your need to control things is just your fear of the unknown. Don’t miss out on the blessings He has for you just because you’re scared.”
“...we cannot fail to recognise the influence which the progressive control over natural forces exerts on the social relationships between men, since men always place their newly won powers at the service of their aggressiveness, and use them against one another.”
“God is in control in every circumstance.”
“Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.”
“If the truth gets in the way, I will remove it. But truth be told, removing the truth never removes the truth.”
“He feels the bleakness crawling into his skull; Franco breaths in steadily, trying to tune in all out, that pressure on your brain, eroding focus, diverting the flow of thought down old ruinous canals...”
“Woman wants control, man self-control .”
“Sometimes people feel they need to control everything, as if they could! Matters of life and death are out of your hands. The more you come to realize this, the harder you try to prove that you can control SOMETHING, anything. All you can really control is your response to what happens. You cannot control matters of life or death and because of this you are not accountable. You cannot be held liable for anything that you have no power over. Guilt, shame and blame make no sense when circumstances are beyond your control.”
“We ve all got the power to kill in our hands, but most of us are afraid to use it. Those who aren t, control life itself.”
“Case by case, we find that conformity is the easy way, and the path to privilege and prestige; dissidence carries personal costs that may be severe, even in a society that lacks such means of control as death squads, psychiatric prisons, or extermination camps. The very structure of the media is designed to induce conformity to established doctrine. In a three-minute stretch between commercials, or in seven hundred words, it is impossible to present unfamiliar thoughts or surprising conclusions with the argument and evidence required to afford them some credibility. Regurgitation of welcome pieties faces no such problem.”
“So it came to this, that— against the grain, no doubt—the condemned man had to hope the apparatus was in good working order! This, I thought, was a flaw in the system; and, on the face of it, my view was sound enough. On the other hand, I had to admit it proved the efficiency of the system. It came to this; the man under sentence was obliged to collaborate mentally, it was in his interest that all should go off without a hitch.”