“Most mainstream news agencies have a biased corporation behind them that is controlling the news feed.”
“I came to realize that good and evil were out of my reach, that time was the only thing I had any control over. I could buy time, create intervals. I could not truly make the world a better place, but I could make part of it a better place for a short while.”
“The power of this Christian talk was produced by many things, among them a remorseless hortatory pedagogy, a hectoring moralising of the individual, and a ceaseless management of the minutiae of everyday life. Above all, it was a form of speech marked by an absence of humour. It was a morose and a deadly serious world. The joke, the humorous kick, the hilarious satires, the funny cut-them-down-to-size jibe, have vanished.’ And in the place of humour, came fear. Christian congregations found themselves rained on by oratorical fire and brimstone. For their own good, of course. As Chrysostom observed with pleasure: ‘in our churches we hear countless discourses on eternal punishments, on rivers of fire, on the venomous worm, on bonds that cannot be burst, on exterior darkness’.”
“There is a need to drive and manage life while not letting life drive or manage you.”
“Control your thoughts, if not others will.”
“There is potential to control your fate or let fate control you, the choice is entirely yours to make.”
“Control your mind in order to control your world.”
“Without sufficient control, fate is pushing your switches on a continual basis.”
“Dad seemed eager to fight, to prove who was in charge.”
“The burning ache within me amplifies, and my head swims with the memory of every second I had her restrained and at my mercy. But somehow, now I realize that it was entirely me at her mercy. Just like now. This woman is stirring something in me.”
“We did not say she was crazy then. We believed she had to do that. We remembered all the young men her father had driven away, and we knew that with nothing left, she would have to cling to that which had robbed her, as people will.”
“Control the land and you control those who live on it. Own the land and you own those who live on it.”
“I was born three drinks short of comfortable... But I knew what that guy meant about the way he was born three drinks short. It made me think about the first beer I ever drank, down at North Beach with a bunch of kids one summer night. It made me think about that first exquisite relief. It made me think about my ex-husband, Scott, who always said I should stop after the third drink. That s when you get out of control, he d say. I had no idea what we was talking about. After a couple of drinks is when I start to feel IN control.”
“He wondered why the stewardesses were looking at him funny by mid-flight, and realized he d been responding to their rote kindness with the intensity of someone who has never experienced courtesy, or never expects to experience it again.”
“The biggest mistake of a military man is to say that he is safe , as much as the biggest mistake of a police insider is to say that he is in control . Both aren’t, never. Usually they say something like: it s only this time or, I ve done this before, nothing will happen to me . Those sentences mean failure. Even Schwarzenegger found himself, later in his life, dealing with this brief thought. Seen a military man in your neighborhood? Tell him: write.”
“Media: Keep the adult public attention diverted away from the real social issues, and captivated by matters of no real importance. Schools: Keep the young public ignorant of real mathematics, real economics, real law, and REAL HISTORY [WC emphasis]. Entertainment: Keep the public entertainment below a sixth-grade level. Work: Keep the public busy, busy, busy, with no time to think; back on the farm with the other animals.”
“Creating a script is like daydreaming, we will always have control of our actions.”