Controlled Quotes

666 quotes by 556 authors

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes. — Susan Sontag
For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the… — Susan Sontag
Critics of consumer capitalism like to think that consumers are manipulated and controlled by those who seek to sell them things, but for the most… — James Surowiecki
In the struggle between capital and labor, more often than not capital has won, because the real source of value for most companies has historically… — James Surowiecki
My mother was extremely controlled, sort of flawless. And I always tend to be a bit more hippie. — Vera Wang
Reparations, I believe, are talked about for political reasons, trying to cater for the purpose of getting votes. If Congress was serious about reparations -… — J C Watts
Human beings aren't supposed to be controlled and told what to do. — Ricky Williams
Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints. — Naomi Wolf
When any young director gets hired by a studio to do a $125 million film based on a preexisting piece of intellectual property, they're climbing… — Neill Blomkamp
The really interesting moment will be when you have a critical mass of people engaging through the networks, more than through the press and TV.… — Geoff Mulgan
My homeland of Belarus is an unlikely place for an Internet revolution. The country, controlled by authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko since 1994, was once described… — Evgeny Morozov
New technologies are wreaking havoc on employment figures - from EZpasses ousting toll collectors to Google-controlled self-driving automobiles rendering taxicab drivers obsolete. — Douglas Rushkoff
The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies. — Robert Conquest
What's the world's greatest lie?... It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our… — Paulo Coelho
Charisma is the numinous aura around a narcissistic personality. It flows outward from a simplicity or unity of being and a composure and controlled vitality.… — Camille Paglia
That's the way the mind works: the brain is genetically disposed towards organization, yet if not controlled, will link even the most imagerial fragment to… — Tom Robbins
A whole population of strangers inhabited and shaped that little body, lived in that mind and controlled its wishes, dictated its thoughts...The name was an… — Aldous Huxley
I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system… — Woodrow Wilson
It may be that we are puppets-puppets controlled by the strings of society. But at least we are puppets with perception, with awareness. And perhaps… — Stanley Milgram
The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination. — Carson McCullers

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