#trolling

When it comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts. ↗

— Michael Ende

#beings #beliefs #better #comes #controlling

To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth - all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne. ↗

— Lee De Forest

#constitutes #controlling #dream #earth #field

Juggling is sometimes called the art of controlling patterns, controlling patterns in time and space. ↗

— Ronald Graham

#called #controlling #juggling #patterns #sometimes

It's almost as if we each have a vampire inside us. Controlling that beast, that dark side, is what fascinates me. ↗

— Sheryl Lee

#beast #controlling #dark #dark side #each

The real world is far too complex and unpredictable to make something like the idea of humanity controlling its own evolution or engineering itself - well, I wouldn't say impossible but it should be approached with a degree of caution. ↗

— Ken MacLeod

#caution #complex #controlling #degree #engineering

You have the biggest impact on controlling, on affecting local lives as mayor. It's so much more important than being a state legislator. ↗

— Dick Murphy

#being #biggest #controlling #impact #important

There was a project at Lawrence Livermore National Labs where many years ago they went down this path for scripting and controlling very large numerical calculations. ↗

— Guido van Rossum

#calculations #controlling #down #labs #large

The problem with the evangelical homeschool movement was not their desire to educate their children at home, or in private religious schools, but the evangelical impulse to "protect" children from ideas that might lead them to "question" and to keep them cloistered in what amounted to a series of one-family gated communities. Frank Schaeffer ↗

— Frank Schaeffer

#critical-thinking #evangelical #free-thought #homeschool #religious-right

The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another, will serve Israel through its control over the American administration. ↗

— Bashar al-Assad

#american #american administration #another #clout #control

The U.S. and Britain are incapable of controlling all of Iraq. ↗

— Bashar al-Assad

#controlling #incapable #iraq