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is defined against domination and power. Domination is intentional. Power is anonymous. Control is merely a faculty of living which gives one endurance and stimulation in his daily pursuits.

Power is anonymous. Control tends to be overshadowed by domination. But control, as superstition, as the omnipotence of thought is not so much domination as a faculty of living, 'his belief in his capacity to control them should give him strength and endurance in his pursuits and stimulate his observation and knowledge of the habits and natures of animals and plants' (malinowski 'magic, science, and religion 36-7)

is, in modern times, such that it requires that a population dangerously concentrated in cities and factories, (whose lives are filled with cause for rebellion) be taught in the schools, the churches, the popular literature that to be rich was a sign of superiority, to be poor a sign of personal failure, and that the only way upward for a poor person was to climb into the ranks of the rich by extraordinary effort and extraordinary luck.

Control in modern times requires more than force, more than law. It requires that a population dangerously concentrated in cities and factories, whose lives are filled with cause for rebellion, be taught that all is right as it is. And so, the schools, the churches, the popular literature taught that to be rich was a sign of superiority, to be poor a sign of personal failure, and that the only way upward for a poor person was to climb into the ranks of the rich by extraordinary effort and extraordinary luck. Howard Zinn

is less a matter of controlling free men than improving the way in which they are controlled.

It is a mistake to suppose that the whole issue is how to free man. The issue is to improve the way in which he is controlled. B. F. Skinner

is sometimes most effectively accomplished by a loosening rather than a tightening. To control a cow, give it a bigger pasture.

To control your cow, give it a bigger pasture.

, in modern times, requires more than force, more than law. It requires that a population dangerously concentrated in cities and factories, whose lives are filled with cause for rebellion, be taught that all is right as it is.

Control in modern times requires more than force, more than law. It requires that a population dangerously concentrated in cities and factories, whose lives are filled with cause for rebellion, be taught that all is right as it is.

Control is the source of strategic power.

is sometimes best abandoned --- don't try to steer the river.

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