The Revolutionary Guard controls almost everything in Iran, and this is hurting the people.
But while capitalism may be a convenient scapegoat, it did not cause any of these problems. Indeed, whatever one wishes to call the unruly mixture of freedom and government controls that made up our economic and political system during the last three decades, one cannot call it capitalism.
We can't manipulate some stars while maintaining other stars as controls; we can't start and stop ice ages, and we can't experiment with designing and evolving dinosaurs.
The ingenuity of the average worker is sufficient to outwit any system of controls devised by management.
The controls of life are structured as forms and nuclear arrangements, in a relation with the motions of the universe.
If you do not do the thing you fear, the fear controls your life.
What we can do with these means (our own unassisted strength) is still very small compared to what we could do in acting in union with God himself, who created and ultimately controls all other forces.
It comes down to this: either you control money, or it controls you. To control money, you must manage it.
Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world.
Calling upon my years of experience, I froze at the controls.
The media can make boxers, controls who makes it big and who doesnt. They can build up fighters or knock them down.
The one who has the little need is the one who controls the whole relationship. You can see this dynamic so clearly because usually in every relationship there is one who loves the most and the other who doesn’t love, who only takes advantage of the one who gives his or her heart. You can see the way they manipulate each other, their actions and reactions, and they are just like the provider and the drug addict.
Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.
He who controls the past controls the future.
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
Jesus did not promise to change the circumstances around us. He promised great peace and pure joy to those who would learn to believe that God actually controls all things.
So ultimately, it's idealistic to think that artists are able to step away from the power of the media and the way it controls things, and go on doing their own things.
Whoever controls your energy controls your destiny. 100 percent renewable energy is 100 percent American.
This was the ultimate form of ostentation among technology freaks - to have a system so complete and sophisticated that nothing showed; no machines, no wires, no controls.
We should be looking at putting a limit on the interest that can be charged on things like store cards. You don't want to end up with totally draconian credit controls but you want some common sense. We want cooling-off periods for store cards so people can't take them out and go straight to the counter and buy things.