Hate Being Controlled Quotes

#1. Economists love to talk about incentives, but the bottom line is that people hate being controlled or manipulated, even when done through voluntary institutions. This is one of the most important tensions in capitalism.

Tyler Cowen

#2. Awareness of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom.

Socrates

#3. David tells me that fairies never say 'We feel happy': what they say is, 'We feel dancey'.

J.M. Barrie

#4. Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.

B.C. Forbes

#5. With children, promises are pinky sworn solemn, and unbreakable. They mean something.

Cyn Balog

#6. I didn't realize I actually had post-traumatic stress disorder at the time, but why would I think I had that? Anyway, how would I know which was post-traumatic stress, which is addiction, which is bipolar, which is Libra?

Carrie Fisher

#7. Southcott had recently attained her five-and-twentieth blessed birthday, of whom a prophetic private in the Life Guards had heralded the sublime appearance by announcing that arrangements were made for the swallowing

Charles Dickens

#8. Infinities are not for casual exploration. You could fall and keep falling. You could get lost.

Laini Taylor

#9. I cling to nowhere until I fall - the crash of Nothing ...

Emily Dickinson

#10. Oliver Sacks remains my hero to this day. He was one of the first medical writers I read. The other was Lewis Thomas, who is no longer alive but is just heroic to me.

Atul Gawande

#11. Why is it that we all say we hate our hypocritical politicians being controlled by special interests groups, and every election...we vote them in again.

Colleen Hitchcock

#12. What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!

William James

#13. Where the past is venerated the clean and those who clean things up should be kept out. Piety is never happy without a little dust, dirt, and rubbish.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#14. She understood very clearly why people go mad. Sometimes it is the only way to survive the unbearable when all other flight has been cut off. When the body cannot remove itself and emotions cannot be deadened, then the mind simply refuses to accept reality.

Anne Perry