2,640 Quotes About Control

Freedom is the most sophisticated form of control. The best lies use the truth.

This capacity for living easily and familiarly at an extraordinary level of abstraction is the source of modern man's power. With it he has transformed the planet, annihilated space, and trebled the world's population. But it is also a power which has, like everything human, its negative side, in the desolating sense of rootlessness, vacuity, and the lack of concrete feeling that assails modern man in his moments of real anxiety.

Only a fool would be patient enough to stay in a totalitarian love affair, and only the insincere will use anarchy to commit the sin of unfaithfulness.

I mind the unmindful, but I mind my own mind too. Mine your mind, and mine the minds of others. Mind.. you are mine!

All identification is for control and ownership.

You have 100% control over yourself, and your life. It is up to you to stop giving your power away, and to decide what you want to be, do, or have...and go after it.

The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself. Anger is.

Western "freedom" is a sophisticated form of control.

My work reflects a relationship to the built world that shifts between control and randomness, strangeness and beauty, comfort and fear.