Control Quotes

Biotech and geo engineering have the same mindset, of engineering, of power, of control, of mastery of nature.

Vandana Shiva
- Power
- Nature
- Engineering
Jesus Christ never preached there should be celibate priests. The only reason the church has this is because it's a mechanism of power and control. You can control priests who are celibate.

Alex Gibney
- Power
- Church
- Jesus

There are a lot of good arguments for birth control, but as far as terminating a life that has already come into existence, I haven't found any.

Kathy Ireland
- Life
- Good
- Control
...We leave our homeland, our property and our friends. We give up the familiar ground that supports our ego, admit the helplessness of ego to control its world and secure itself. We give up our clingings to superiority and self-preservation...It means giving up searching for a home, becoming a refugee, a lonely person who must depend on himself...Fundamentally, no one can help us. If we seek to relieve our loneliness, we will be distracted from the path. Instead, we must make a relationship with loneliness until it becomes aloneness.

Chogyam Trungpa
- Up
- World
- Home
Since the founding of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other mainstays of what technology writers have come to call 'the social Web' or 'Web 2.0,' a sizable portion of humanity has learned to be together while apart, sacrificing intimacy for control and spontaneity for predictability.

Walter Kirn
Our children, manipulated to become exemplary consumers, increasingly admit they do not feel 'in control' of their own Internet use.

Beeban Kidron
- Children
- Control
...learn to perceive and control your chakras; they are like seven churches within you, each holding a different aspect of the Mystery of God.

E. Bernard Jordan
- God
- Different
- Church
The primary aim, object, and purpose of consciousness is control. Consciousness in a mere automaton is a useless and unnecessary epiphenomenon.

C. Lloyd Morgan
- Control
- Purpose