“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
“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
“Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.”— James Lane Allen
“Actors are a line of props, and I am the puppeteer who pulls the strings.”— Michelangelo Antonioni
“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.”— Edward Bernays
“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
“The systematic study of mass psychology revealed... the potentialities of invisible government of society by manipulation of the motives which actuate man in the group.”— Edward Bernays
“With software, there are two possibilities: either the users control the program or the program controls the users.”— Richard Stallman
“Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.”— Max Weber
“I think there are two ways in which people are controlled. First of all frighten people and secondly, demoralise them.”— Tony Benn