#troll

Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#creative #force #rather #reason #than

I don't want the chair of the government because it will be controlled by the U.S. and I don't want to be controlled by the U.S. ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

#chair #controlled #government #i #want

The things that inform student culture are created and controlled by the unseen culture, the sociological aspects of our climbing culture, our 'me' generation, our yuppie culture, our SUVs, or, you know, shopping culture, our war culture. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#climbing #controlled #created #culture #generation

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography. ↗

— George Santayana

#controlled #dreadful #geography #indignity #me

News events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows. ↗

— Jessica Savitch

#controlled #entertainment #events #like #mapped

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#any #earthly #force #old #old woman

For a while, I had this uncontrollable urge - this addiction to danger. Now I look back and I think, 'Gee, what an idiot. I was risking my life just for the sensation of it.' ↗

— Steven Seagal

#back #danger #gee #had #i

Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple. ↗

— Bill Shankly

#ball #based #controlling #football #game

Modern Armenia survived only because it was the single province controlled, and protected, by the Russian Empire. The rest of the territory within its historical borders is almost wholly devoid of ethnic Armenians. ↗

— John Shimkus

#armenia #armenians #because #borders #controlled

It means that, in fact, it's - whether fascist is the right word I don't know - more of a plutocracy than anything resembling a democracy; it has become a nation controlled by a very small, very wealthy elite. ↗

— Peter Singer

#become #controlled #democracy #elite #fact