Top 1200 Social Control Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

I have a control problem. I hate the feeling of not being in control.

The essential idea of Stoicism in my interpretation is, you don't control the world around you, you control how you respond. At 19, that's very empowering.

Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with anguish. The real tedium, deep tedium, is seasoned with terror and with death.

Self-control is one mark of a mature person; it applies to control of language, physical treatment of others, and the appetites of the body.

What one realizes there is that we are not in control of the [reddit] community, in any way, shape or form. We have no power over it and so we've lost this total control.

You learn that the only thing you can control is being professional and staying focused. This is the NBA. There are a lot of things that you can't control.

Trump is the living embodiment of the main character in the film American Psycho, a symbol of corporate domination on steroids, an out-of- control authoritarian parading and performing unknowingly as a clown, and as a symbol of unchecked narcissism and a bearer of a suffocating culture of fear. He is the symbol of a failed sociality and a declining social order.

In life, you can't control what other people are going to do; you can't control how they're going to behave. All you can control is how you're going to react.

You can't control a young horse unless you control yourself.

Learn to Control your emotions or they will control you.

Got to lose control before you take control.

Now, the vicissitudes that afflict the individual have their source in society. It is this situation that has given currency to the phrase social forces. Personal relations have given way to impersonal ones. The Great Society has arrived and the task of our generation is to bring it under control. The study of how it is to be done is the function of politics.

We can't always control what happens but we can control our response

Humility is the mother of all virtues. Humility says we are not in control, principles are in control, therefore we submit ourselves to principles. Pride says that we are in control, and since our values govern our behavior, we can simply do life our way.

Anything under God's control is never out of control.

Love makes everybody a victim because it's something you can't control. You can't control how you feel or what you're going through when you're doing it.

When you control your thoughts and emotions, you control everything.

You can't control the length of your life. You can control the depth

[Madness] is the jail we could all end up in. And we know it. And watch our step. For a lifetime. We behave. A fantastic and entire system of social control, by the threat of example as effective over the general population as detention centers in dictatorships, the image of the madhouse floats through every mind for the course of its lifetime.

Every teacher should realize he is a social servant set apart for the maintenance of the proper social order and the securing of the right social growth. In this way, the teacher always is the prophet of the true God and the usherer-in of the true Kingdom of God.

You can't always control the wind, but you can control your sails.

Now culture being a social product, I firmly believe that any work of art should have a social function to beautify, to glorify, to dignify man... Since any social system is forced to change to another by concrete economic forces, its art changes also to be recharged, reshaped, and revitalized by the new conditions... The making of a genuine artist or writer is not mysterious. It is not the work of Divine Providence. Social conditions, history, and the people's struggle are the factors behind it.

The things you don't have control over, you don't worry about. I have control over my attitude, my perception, how I do things, and you do the very best job you can. Other people have control over other things and you let them do their jobs.

I just control what I can control - go out there and try to be the best I can be in the minutes I get, with the plays that are called for me.

I've learned since childhood that you control only the things that you can control. Everything else, let it take care of itself.

By offering individuals ownership and control of their health care coverage, we return control to the patients; and that is exactly where it should be.

I usually control the environment I'm in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.

Many people who gain recognition and fame shape their lives by overcoming seemingly insurmountable obstacles, only to be catapulted into new social realities over which they have less control and manage badly. Indeed, the annals of the famous and infamous are strewn with individuals who were both architects and victims of their life courses.

Those public employee union bosses think they already control the legislators, they already control everyone up there in Sacramento, and now, because they have the money, they want to control all of you, .. They want to raise your taxes. It's all going in that direction -- raising your taxes. But I'm here as your warrior, remember that. I want to protect you.

People at CDC [Centers for Disease Control] who cut their teeth on diseases over the last 10 years have started to think of crime as another disease, and using some of these same concepts. It was something that was in the air in that world, but it was time to bust it out and apply it to any number of different social epidemics.

I understand that people talk, and frankly, I can't control that. There's no point in getting upset over a thing that you can't control. You just have to let it go.

It's always exciting when you can go into a mode where you can be both spontaneous and choreographed. Sort of in control and out of control at the same time.

Self-control is solely a matter of thought-control!

I only think in the following terms: writing, recording, releasing. That's what I have control of. What I don't have control is whether critics or the public like what I do.

Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.

Governments can no longer control 100 percent of the story. Time and geographical boundaries disappear. In places like China and all over the Middle East, social-media outlets are being used to expose and hold accountable public officials that don't want to be held accountable for corruption and human rights abuses.

What I can control is how I react. I can't control anything else.

Let me control the textbooks, and I will control the state.

You need self-control in an out-of-control world.

I can't control what happens to me, but I can control how I respond to it.

The theory of social contracts extends as far back as Plato. However, it was the great 18th century social philosophers John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau who brought the concept of a social contract between citizens and governments sharply into political thinking, paving the way for popular democracy and constitutional republicanism.

When I wake up, I always thank God. I'm grateful for another day, and he's allowed me this tiny thing that we should be appreciative of. As long as you know who you are, everything else will be OK. No one else can intervene or interfere or affect you, because you control your destiny, you control your tone, you control everything in your life.

[Social Security ] is not in crisis at this stage. Leave Social Security alone. We have a lot of other places we can look that is in crisis. But Social Security is not.

I cannot control what people think. But I can control myself and my aim, and my head is focused on trying to win trophies.

Get out of control, but appear under control. It?s not bad to alarm other people, though ? it?s good for them.

I have no control whatsoever on how people perceive me from the Right or the Left. All I have control over is who I say I am.

Anger is almost always an emotion for people who wish to control others while simultaneously failing to control themselves.

Control the things you can control. As for the rest - God bless it all.

Is Control controlled by its need to control? Answer: yes.

The biggest innovation of all is social networking, and cellular technology is the facilitator for social networking. People are mobile; social networking is people, and the only way people connect with each other is wirelessly.

A nation that can't control its energy sources can't control its future.

The control of the palate is a valuable aid for the control of the mind.

Here's the problem: Profiteers haunt America, and for everything we try to control, someone's going to profit from it, more than you control it.

The control of a large force is the same principle as the control of a few men: it is merely a question of dividing up their numbers.

If cybernetics is the science of control, management is the profession of control.

We [americans] need to control our border just like people have to control who goes in and out of their house.

The memories are vague of the accident. I remember coming out of the pitlane with cruise control, letting it go and then losing control of the car. I remember my hands frantically operating the steering wheel trying to recover control of the car, then this big, big noise and nothing more.

Under the notion that unregulated market-driven values and relations should shape every domain of human life, the business model of governance has eviscerated any viable notion of social responsibility while furthering the criminalization of social problems and cutbacks in basic social services, especially for the poor, young people and the elderly.

The end goal is to get everybody chipped, to control the whole society, to have the bankers and the elite people control the world.

If a company is profitable, the founder is in control. If it's not, investors are in control.