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• All branches of our government today are controlled by individuals who use their power to undermine liberty and enhance the welfare/warfare state-and frequently their own wealth and power.

  Ron Paul

  Government, Liberty, Branches

  Farewell Address to the U.S. Congress, delivered 14 November 2012

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• To say that... behaviors have different 'meanings' is only another way of saying that they are controlled by different variables.

  B. F. Skinner

  Variables, Way, Different

  B.F. Skinner (1969). “Contingencies of Reinforcement”

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• Persisting social crisis, the emergence of a charismatic personality, and the exploitation of mass media to obtain public confidence would be the steppingstones in the piecemeal transformation of the United States into a highly controlled society.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Media, Personality, United States

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• More directly linked to the impact of technology, it involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled and directed society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite whose claim to political power would rest on allegedly superior scientific know-how. Unhindered by the restraints of traditional liberal values, this elite would not hesitate to achieve its political ends by using the latest modern techniques for influencing public behavior and keeping society under close surveillance and control.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Technology, Impact, Political

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• We, the Black masses, don't want these leaders who seek our support coming to us representing a certain political party. They must come to us today as Black Leaders representing the welfare of Black people. We won't follow any leader today who comes on the basis of political party. Both parties (Democrat and Republican) are controlled by the same people who have abused our rights, and who have deceived us with false promises every time an election rolls around.

  Malcolm X

  Party, Rights, Deceived Us

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• And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations

  Brian De Palma

  Corporations, Information, Source

  Brian De Palma, Laurence F. Knapp (2003). “Interviews”, p.186, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Mr Bush, Mr. Blair and now Mr Brown's sense of human rights precludes our people's right to their God-given resources, which in their view must be controlled by their kith and kin. I am termed dictator because I have rejected this supremacist view and frustrated the neo-colonialists.

  Robert Mugabe

  Rights, Views, People

  Speech to the United Nations General Assembly, September 26, 2007.

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• My ego is controlled enough that I don't have to be the focus.

  Herbie Mann

  Focus, Ego, Enough

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• One of the keys to thinking big is total focus. I think of it almost as a controlled neurosis, which is a quality I've noticed in many highly successful entrepreneurs.

  Donald Trump

  Successful, Thinking, Keys

  Donald J. Trump, Tony Schwartz (2009). “Trump: The Art of the Deal”, p.47, Ballantine Books

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• I feel the best way to ensure Americans' freedom is to tighten restrictions on that freedom in any way possible. Only through wiretaps, illegal searches and seizures, unfettered government intrusion, a controlled media and a complete crackdown on free speech can we ensure the liberties of all people.

  John Ashcroft

  Stupid, Government, Media

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• Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness. If men and women practiced mental calisthenics as they do physical calisthenics, they would purge their brains of this foolishness.

  Arnold Bennett

  Time, Stupid, Men

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• My work in those years was essentially of a propagandist nature. I was too young and unknown to play a part in the leading circles of Germany, let alone of world Zionism, which was controlled from Berlin.

  Nahum Goldmann

  Years, Play, Circles

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• In working class districts, you had several families living together in the one house, and it was very difficult to get a house, because the politicians who controlled housing were doing so in a very discriminatory fashion.

  John Hume

  Fashion, Class, House

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• I do feel that evolution is being controlled by some sort of divine engineer. I can't help thinking that. And this engineer knows exactly what he or she is doing and why, and where evolution is headed. That's why we've got giraffes and hippopotami and the clap.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Thinking, Helping, Evolution

  Interview with Jon Stewart on "The Daily Show", September 13, 2005.

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• Yeah, I'm going to need a leather jacket for when I'm on my hog and need to go into a controlled slide.

  George Michael

  Leather Jackets, Needs, Slides

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• There is nothing quite like the controlled burn of Eugene Marten’s prose. Waste is an exhilarating and unnerving piece of fiction.

  Sam Lipsyte

  Fiction, Pieces, Waste

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• As Iraq erupts in civil war and America again contemplates intervention, that unfinished business should give new urgency to the question of how the United States military controlled the media coverage of its long involvement there and in Afghanistan.

  Chelsea Manning

  Military, War, Unfinished Business

  "The Fog Machine of War" by Chelsea Manning, www.nytimes.com. June 14, 2014.

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• The Christian is free from all other human beings. He does not have to live over against others, controlled by their actions and responses. Rather, he lives according to Christ's commands. This is Christian freedom. It is a freedom unknown by others. It is not just when others do the things that we like that we act properly toward them; we are free to do good even when they don't because our actions are not dependent on their responses. It is the Lord Christ when we serve!

  Jay E. Adams

  Christian, Doe, Our Actions

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• There is zero correlation between IQ and emotional empathy... They're controlled by different parts of the brain.

  Daniel Goleman

  Zero, Emotional, Empathy

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• There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past.

  Ernest Gaines

  Change, Struggle, Past

  Ernest J. Gaines, John Lowe (1995). “Conversations with Ernest Gaines”, p.29, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I wanted the players to feel like they were part of a family, to be conscious of that controlled togetherness as they made that slow entrance onto the field. It had a great psychological effect on the opposing team, too. They'd never seen anything like it.

  Hayden Fry

  Team, Player, Fields

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• But in marketing, the familiar is everything, and that is controlled by the studio. That is reaching its apogee now.

  Nicolas Roeg

  Marketing, Reaching, Familiar

  "His brilliant career". Interview with Jason Wood, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2005.

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• Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

  Ralph Ellison

  Life, Inspiring, Failure

  Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.590, Vintage

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• When we're each aware of our own Magnificence, we don't feel the need to control others, and we won't allow ourselves to be controlled.

  Anita Moorjani

  Communication, Needs, Magnificence

  FaceBook post by Anita Moorjani from Apr 27, 2012

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• The tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state-controlled police and military are the weapons of dictatorship. The rifle is the weapon of democracy. Not for nothing was the revolver called an "equalizer."

  Edward Abbey

  Military, Police, Democracy

  "Abbey's Road". Book by Edward Abbey, 1979.

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