Alice Weaver Flaherty Quotes

Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.

It would be easier to subjugate the entire universe through force of arms than to subjugate the minds of a single village... .

To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.

If you lend your consciousness to someone else, you're a robot.

I can't control everybody's mind.

When was the last time you had a thought that wasn't put there by THEM?

I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.

One of the worst things in the world is to be the victim of a process over which you have no control.

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

Bureaucracy is ever desirous of spreading its influence and its power. You cannot extend the mastery of the government over the daily working life of a people without at the same time making it the master of the people's souls and thoughts.

A man who gives himself to be a possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life, having bartered his soul to a brute-master. He is not of them. He may stand against them, persuade himself of a mission, batter and twist them into something which they, of their own accord, would not have been.

If you live your life as a hostage to everybody else's decision, you either have to live a very narrow life, or you have to spend a lot of time in pain.

There's nothing worse in life than to sit there and be the victim of a process that's outside your control.

The power of the mind. Basically, being able to control anyone's mind. That would be a very good power.

I don't believe I'm psychic, but if I can get people to focus on a specific thought, I can hack into brains and figure out what they're thinking.

Yes, an individual could be electronically stimulated to fear, anger, or euphoria from a distance. However, the procedure is complicated, not always accurate, and far too tedious and expensive as a method for taking over control of the world.

If one is free at heart, no man-made chains can bind one to servitude, but if one's mind is so manipulated and controlled by the oppressor, then there will be nothing the oppressed can do to scare his powerful masters.

Everywhere you look, there's someone doing your thinking for you and telling you what to think and when to think of it.

There were no healthy opportunities for Octomom. I was doing what I was told to do and saying what I was told to say.

Cut off from direct experience, cut off from our own feelings and sometimes our own sensations, we are only too ready to adopt a viewpoint or perspective that is handed to us, and is not our own.

The human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control.

Well certainly not having any choice - having your entire life dictated by others.

Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that your feelings, your thoughts and desires are of no account, that you are a nobody and must live as you are told by other people who desire and think for you

Whenever the government is involved, there is an element of coercion.

My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.