Controls Quotes

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.

Admittedly, the body of scientists, as a whole, does uphold the authority of science over the lay public. It controls thereby also the process by which young men are trained to become members of the scientific profession.

In the studio the director controls the actor's every move, every inflection, every expression.

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.

I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and you put the work and time into it. I think your mind really controls everything.

The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.

You have two hemispheres in your brain - a left and a right side. The left side controls the right side of your body and right controls the left half. It's a fact. Therefore, left-handers are the only people in their right minds.

That a society controls, to a greater or lesser extent, the behavior of its members is a universal; but the methods, the particulars of that control, vary from one culture to another.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

But although life is not energy, any more than it is matter, yet it directs energy and thereby controls arrangements of matter.

Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.

Instead, there were a variety of controls of which some could be influenced by bankers, some could be influenced by the government, and some could hardly be influenced by either.

Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.

My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them.

So just as I want pilots on the planes that I fly, when it comes to monetary policy, I want to think that there is someone with sound judgement at the controls.

In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.

Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector.

Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.

The best way to navigate through life is to give up all of our controls.

It's counterintuitive, but the most divisive arrangement is when the same party controls both Congress and the presidency, a situation encountered in eight of the past 10 years. With government unified under a single party, the minority has the least possible incentive to cooperate with the majority.

But you don't decide what to do with the info. Thought runs you. Thought, however, gives false info that you are running it, that you are the one who controls thought. Whereas actually thought is the one which controls each one of us.

Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.

Why did the Clinton Administration continue to liberalize export controls on sensitive technologies even after it learned that China had stolen designs?

The right way to reign in healthcare costs is not by applying more government and more controls and making it more like the post office, it's by making it more like a consumer-driven market.

Could I have worked under a system where there were Draconian controls on my creativity, meaning budget, time, script choices, etc.? Definitely not. I would have fared poorly under the old studio system that guys like Howard Hawks did so well in. I cannot.

He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.

In Sweden everybody has this perfect surface. Everyone's very polite and controls their feelings.

You know, I've got experiences going back to the wage price controls in the Nixon administration where, in effect, we had what I think was a terrible mistake, in that case a Republican administration, where moved in and tried to control the wages, prices and profits of every enterprise in America. It was a huge mistake.

I don't think anybody anywhere can talk about the future of their people or of an organization without talking about education. Whoever controls the education of our children controls our future.

The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.