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I have heard that, with some persons, temperance – that is, moderation – is almost impossible; and if abstinence be an evil (which some have doubted), no one will deny that excess is a greater. Some parents have entirely prohibited their children from tasting intoxicating liquors; but a parent’s authority cannot last for ever; children are naturally prone to hanker after forbidden things; and a child, in such a case, would be likely to have a strong curiosity to taste, and try the effect of what has been so lauded and enjoyed by others, so strictly forbidden to himself – which curiosity would generally be gratified on the first convenient opportunity; and the restraint once broken, serious consequences might ensue. ↗


— Anne Brontë


#children #control #evil #excess #moderation

You and I, we must carry on, Gemma. I cannot afford the luxury of love. I must marry well. And now I must look after you. It is my duty." "If you wish to suffer, you do so of your own free will, not on my behalf. Or Father's or Grandmama's or anyone's. You are a fine physician, Thomas. Why is that not enough?" "Because it isn't," he says with a rare candor. "Only this and the hope of nothing more? A quiet respectability with no true greatness or heroism in it, with only my reputation to recommend me. So you see, Gemma, you are not the only one who cannot rule her own life. ↗


— Libba Bray


#control #gemma-doyle #life #love #responsibility

footnote: "With all due respect" is grown-up talk for "I think you're stupid. ↗


— Dan Gutman


#respect

The urge to shout filthy words at the top of his voice was as strong as ever. ↗


— George Orwell


#conformity #control #profanity #sexuality #conformity

You can't let the truth bring out the worst and let it get the best of you. ↗


— Criss Jami


#best #clever #condescension #humble #humility

Kessa began to cut her meat into tiny pieces. As a whole it was unmanageable, frightening; but divided and arranged, the meat could be controlled. She cut four pieces. She'd count to four between each bite. ↗


— Steven Levenkron


#control #eating-disorder #ocd #eating-disorders

Ritual abuse diagnosis research – excerpt from a chapter in: Lacter, E. & Lehman, K. (2008).Guidelines to Differential Diagnosis between Schizophrenia and Ritual Abuse/Mind Control Traumatic Stress. In J.R. Noblitt & P. Perskin(Eds.), Ritual Abuse in the Twenty-first Century: Psychological, Forensic, Social and Political Considerations, pp. 85-154. Bandon, Oregon: Robert D. Reed Publishers. quotes: A second study revealed that these results were unrelated to patients’ degree of media and hospital milieu exposure to the subject of Satanic ritual abuse. “In fact, less media exposure was associated with production of more Satanic content in patients reporting ritual abuse, evidence that reports of ritual abuse are not primarily the product of exposure contagion.” Responses are consistent with the devastating and pervasive abuse these victims have experienced, so often including immediate family members. ↗


— Randy Noblitt


#cult #dissociation #dissociative-identity-disorder #false-memories #hospitals

Liberty is the prevention of control by others. ↗


— John Acton


#liberty #others #prevention

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. ↗


— Aeschylus


#fear #good #heart #keep #must

The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off; it's with you all the time. ↗


— Alvin Ailey


#creative #creative process #off #process #simply






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