Democracy involves control; individualism does not. A vast number of people in passing from any sense of the right of another individual to control them have also passed out of the sense of the right of God or of the whole to control them. So that from a good many all sense of authority has passed. It is characteristic of our age. And it is a stage in our progress toward real democracy, toward true human liberty.英文原著 · 《A Study of Bible》
He considered the question and resolved not to do so. He would try to be patient until the night of the dinner on the island. He would be birbante, would play the fox, as Emilio surely had done. The Panacci temper should find out that one member of the family could control it, when such control served his purpose. He was on fire with a lust for action as he made his resolutions. Vere's coolness to him, even avoidance of him, had struck hammer-like blows upon his /amour propre/. He saw her now--yes, he saw her--coming down the stairs behind Peppina. Had they been together?英文原著 · 《A Spirit in Prison》
``It is easy to raise a laugh, but dangerous, for it is the greatest test of an orator's control of his audience to be able to land them again on the solid earth of sober thinking.'' I have known him at the very end of a sermon have a ripple of laughter sweep freely over the entire congregation, and then in a moment he has every individual under his control, listening soberly to his words.英文原著 · 《Acres of Diamonds》
The election of public officers, or the inalienability of their functions, the absence of a gradation of powers, and the introduction of a judicial control over the secondary branches of the administration, are the universal characteristics of the American system from Maine to the Floridas. In some States (and that of New York has advanced most in this direction) traces of a centralized administration begin to be discernible. In the State of New York the officers of the central government exercise, in certain cases, a sort of inspection or control over the secondary bodies.英文原著 · 《Democracy In America-1》
[Footnote e: An important remark must, however, be made. Trial by jury does unquestionably invest the people with a general control over the actions of citizens, but it does not furnish means of exercising this control in all cases, or with an absolute authority. When an absolute monarch has the right of trying offences by his representatives, the fate of the prisoner is, as it were, decided beforehand. But even if the people were predisposed to convict, the composition and the non-responsibility of the jury would still afford some chances favorable to the protection of innocence.]英文原著 · 《Democracy In America-1》
Vyvian say once to grandmamma? It was that we might not go to Earlescourt at all--that if papa did not return, or died young, all would go to a Mr. Lionel Dacre, and we should remain here. Imagine that fate--living a long life and dying at the Elms!"
"It is all conjecture," said her sister. "Try to be more contented, Beatrice. We do not make our own lives, we have not the control of our own destiny."
"I should like to control mine," sighed Beatrice. "Try to be contented, darling," continued the sweet, pleading voice. "We all love and admire you.英文原著 · 《Dora Thorne》
With Taylor effectively in control of Kling, they also control the supply of household appliances that Saler's sells.美剧 · 《Billions》
It allows you to think you're in control, but the whole idea of control is a myth.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》
No, I know that it's exciting to remain mysterious and in control, but control is a myth.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》
But the result is the same, too - less control by the people, more control by the state.美剧 · 《Downton Abbey》