“Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.”— James Lane Allen
“To design is to plan and to organize, to order, to relate and to control. In short it embraces all means opposing disorder and accident.”— Josef Albers
“One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.”— Stanley Kubrick
“The consumer society is directed toward a phony novelty. It is fueled by meaningless choice, tastes are manipulated.”— J. G. Ballard
“Acting is a great job. I'm not complaining. But it's also a very strange job. You're never really in control.”— Casey Affleck
“I know I can be diva-ish sometimes, but I have to be in control. The nature of my life, the nature of what I do, is divadom, it really is.”— Mariah Carey
“In almost every act of our daily lives... we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons... who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses.”— Edward Bernays
“Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy, then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness.”— Theodore Kaczynski
“With software, there are two possibilities: either the users control the program or the program controls the users.”— Richard Stallman
“Ours must be a leadership democracy administered by the intelligent minority who know how to regiment and guide the masses.”— Edward Bernays