I’ve studied authoritarianism for a very long time – for 40 years – and they’re started by people’s attempts to control the ideological and linguistic territory.

If you can talk, you can write.

I’m conservative, but I’m not a nut about it.

I’m not a conservative of any kind.

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

Music is something no one can control.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

I do not, in fact, use many puns. Certainly there are far fewer than people believe. But I suspect the ones I do occasionally use tend to hang around in people’s memories for a while.

I don’t run restaurants that are out of control. We are about establishing phenomenal footholdings with talent.

Being politically correct means saying what’s polite rather than what’s accurate. I like to be accurate.

I could talk all day, T stands for talking, T stands for tender, T stands for things that don’t even rhyme with T.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

Black men don’t like to be called ‚boys,‘ but women accept being called ‚girls.‘

With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon. You know all those stories where there’s the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, and he’s like, yeah, he’s sure he can control the demon? Doesn’t work out.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

F2 cars have downforce; they’re quick. But it’s difficult for your brain and eyes to keep up with everything that’s going on once you’re in an F1 car. You get used to it and you learn to stay calm, because if you react too quickly the opposite will happen. Being more relaxed is when it becomes more natural and controlled.

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

Any man can call time out, but no man can say how long the time out will be.

Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.

Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.

It’s very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.

With the development of industrial capitalism, a new and unanticipated system of injustice, it is libertarian socialism that has preserved and extended the radical humanist message of the Enlightenment and the classical liberal ideals that were perverted into an ideology to sustain the emerging social order.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.

I ain’t never called nobody no redskin. I’ve never been mad, like, ‚Get out of this restaurant, you redskin.‘

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

I remember the first time I heard a teenager say ‚LOL.‘ Just what? But it means ‚laugh.‘ Why don’t you just laugh? What are you doing?

If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

I was born in a territory called Biran, in the eastern region of Cuba. It’s known by that name, although it has never appeared on a map.

It’s time to stop thinking of the Republican Party as an exclusive club where your ideological card is checked at the door, and start thinking about how we can attract more solution-based leaders like Nathan Fletcher and Anthony Adams.

In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

We have language and they do not. Chimps communicate by embracing, patting, looking – all these things. And they have lots of sounds. But they cannot sit and discuss. They cannot teach about things that are not present, as far as we know.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.

I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly.

Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.

The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy – the one that’s absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.

I’m a human being and I fall in love and sometimes I don’t have control of every situation.

Just as the humble, unassuming, assenting ‚O.K.‘ has deposed the more affirmative ‚Yes,‘ so the little cringe and hesitation and approximation of ‚like‘ are a help to young people who are struggling to negotiate the shoals and rapids of ethnic identity, the street, and general correctness.

I try to speak in a way that people can understand.

Words are loaded pistols.

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

Language is wine upon the lips.

I don’t know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there’s a good English phrase for it – cold war.

I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.

I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.

I’m opposed to fundamentalism in any form.

Like any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me when the director says, ‚One tear, right now,‘ that one tear would pop out.

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

What I’d really like to control is not machines, but people.

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.