Controlled Quotes

“Political tags — such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth — are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. The former are idealists acting from highest motives for the greatest good of the greatest number. The latter are surly curmudgeons, suspicious and lacking in altruism. But they are more comfortable neighbors than the other sort.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

“Children who are not encouraged to do, to try, to explore, to master, and to risk failure, often feel helpless and inadequate. Over-controlled by anxious, fearful parents, these children often become anxious and fearful themselves. This makes it difficult for them to mature. Many never outgrow the need for ongoing parental guidance and control. As a result, their parents continue to invade, manipulate, and frequently dominate their lives.”
― Susan Forward, Toxic Parents: Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life

“I had thought fermentation was controlled death. Left alone, a head of cabbage molds and decomposes. It becomes rotten, inedible. But when brined and stored, the course of its decay is altered. Sugars are broken down to produce lactic acid, which protects it from spoiling. Carbon dioxide is released and the brine acidifies. It ages. Its color and texture transmute. Its flavor becomes tarter, more pungent. It exists in time and transforms. So it is not quite controlled death, because it enjoys a new life altogether.
The memories I had stored, I could not let fester. Could not let trauma infiltrate and spread, to spoil and render them useless. They were moments to be tended. The culture we shared was active, effervescent in my gut and in my genes, and I had to seize it, foster it so it did not die in me. So that I could pass it on someday. The lessons she imparted, the proof of her life lived on in me, in my every move and deed. I was what she left behind. If I could not be with my mother, I would be her.”
― Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

“Let truth be told. The more we allow water to be controlled, bottled and sold — the more we sell the security of our sons, daughters and souls. He who controls the water, controls us all. Water is the true gold.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“How ironic it would be, to die at his hands while trying to save him, when he first came to me because he was trying to save me.”
― Beth Revis, The Body Electric

“She just wanted to take one step that belonged to her, make one move that she had independently decided to make, but at every turn it felt as if her strings were being pulled by unseen hands.”
― Emma Törzs, Ink Blood Sister Scribe

“I like Wikipedia, but there are some biased subjects that are clearly controlled by vested interests.”
― Steven Magee

“You still define yourself as an item. That is only reason you can be controlled.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, Foundryside

“Anger had its place in battle. It blanketed your fears, overcame your nerves, and drove many a soldier to a feat of bravery or sacrifice which could turn the tide. In the front line, controlled, contained, and well-utilised anger was as much a weapon as a spear or sword.
In a leader, it was nothing but a hindrance. Anger clouded thoughts, narrowed vision, and blinded you to the truth by overwhelming you with lies and your greatest fears.”
― G.R. Matthews, Seven Deaths of an Empire

“The details should be controlled by the main issue and not the other way around where minor details garden the focus of attention.”
― Steven Redhead, Life Is A Circus

“It is no life to be always under someone's control, subject to their will and whim.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“You are living in a rigged system of corporate controlled government.”
― Steven Magee

“Being aware of extensive corporate controlled government corruption, I found that I could no longer do the Pledge of Allegiance, so I rewrote it to one that I could participate in.”
― Steven Magee

“If you support a corrupt corporate controlled government, please go ahead and pledge allegiance.”
― Steven Magee

“The energy utilities are generally controlled by toxic managers.”
― Steven Magee

“Whenever I interact with the government, I am aware that I am dealing with a toxic group of corporate controlled fraudsters.”
― Steven Magee

“Stay gRounded, even in fLight.”
― Alogaristw

“The corporate controlled media is a surveillance system.”
― Steven Magee

“You are only bound and controlled by time if you subject yourself to time's demands, if you are subservient to time then it surely will rule every single aspect of your life.”
― Steven Redhead, Life Is A Circus

“There was so much government controlled news coming out of Florida during the hurricane Ian disaster that I had to open up my mind to 9-11 not being accurate!”
― Steven Magee

“I was surprised after many years of being prescribed drugs and treatments by the medical profession that my altitude hypersensitivity was being controlled by just two nutritional supplements.”
― Steven Magee, Toxic Altitude

“The systemic rot is so severe in the police that the government should replace it with something that actually works for the masses and call it ‘Citizens Assistance’ with the focus being on excellent customer service that is quality controlled!”
― Steven Magee

“The USA is the land of corporate controlled government propaganda.”
― Steven Magee

“Individually, a single person cannot stop government tyranny, but an individual can be the start of a movement of defiance and disobedience, which progresses Tyranny through Revolution. We can evolve past the need for government, the need to be controlled, and an endless cycle of tyranny that has lasted thousands of years. But to get to this point, defiance in the face of tyranny is a must which would be the catalyst to end Tyranny and progress us to the beginning of Revolution.”
― Jeffrey Hann, COVID19 – Short Path to 'You'll Own Nothing. And You'll Be Happy.': Welcome to the New Age of Tyranny

“I am not a thing to be controlled by you,' Nesta said icily. Everything in her life, from the moment she was born, had been controlled by other people. Things happened to her; anytime she tried to exert control, she'd been thwarted at every turn- and she hated that even more than the King of Hybern.

'That's why you're going to train at Windhaven. You will learn to control yourself.'

'I won't go.'

'You're going, even if you have to be tied up and hauled there. You will follow Cassian's lessons, and you will do whatever work Clotho requires in the library.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A ​Court of Silver Flames

“I had no control over where I went, who I spoke to or could speak with. I was veiled, unable to even look someone in the eye if they were allowed to speak with me. I didn't get to choose what I ate, when I left my chambers, or who was allowed to even touch me. But he was the first thing I'd ever truly chosen for myself.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“The reality, known, researched, and manipulated by the merchandising media, is perceptually complex. Simplistic seeing and getting are perceptual constructs custom-manufactured only for overprotected, nongrowth-oriented children, highly vulnerable to manipulation, who eventually become the adult victims in a media-dominated society. …They are usually fantasy-defined by media as the "in-crowd." Their reality is usually that of the losers, the used, the persuaded, the patsies, the appropriated.”
― Wilson Bryan Key, The Age of Manipulation: The Con in Confidence, The Sin in Sincere

“A man who has not known meditation lives in the dark night of the soul. He has not experienced the inner light. And if you are full of darkness inside your life is bound to remain miserable, because your actions will come out of your darkness. Your actions are bound to be wrong. Your life will be that of
stumbling from one error to another error.
People carry mountains of misery, because they have not tried to bring any light into their inner source. And it is easy to do that,
but people have just never been told to go into themselves.
The society, the establishment and the vested interests are against it, because they don't want people who are full of inner light. The
politicians, the people in power and the rich are all against it, because a man who has his own inner light cannot be manipulated, controlled and exploited.
He will always do the right things. He has his own intelligence, and he is ready to live according to his own inner light. Even a single moment of freedom is more valuable than to sacrifice his whole life, because in that single moment he comes to know God.”
― Swami Dhyan Giten, The Way of the Heart

“You don't control me. It's my body, my mind, and my soul.”
― Maya Strassner

“Courage is fear constrained, not fear absent.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough