“Until you can ignore your circumstances, and just do as you promise,” he says, “you’ll always be controlled by the world.”
Life is unpredictable...and control is just an illusion. And sometimes all that unpredictability is overwhelming. And it makes us feel small and powerless.
The law is administered by people. And people are not perfect.
The system works depends on the people overseeing it.
— Call it, Captain.
— All right, listen up. Until we can close that portal, our priority is containment. Barton, I want you on that roof. Eyes on everything. Call out patterns and strays. Stark, you got the perimeter. Anything gets more than three blocks out, you turn it back or you turn it to ash.
— Can you give me a lift?
— Right. Better clench up, Legolas.
Thor, you got to try and bottleneck that portal. Slow tmed dawn. You got the lightning. Light the bastards up. You and me (to Natasha), we stay here on the ground. We keep fighting here. And Hulk... Smash.
Es ist besser, nicht zu regieren, als falsch zu regieren.
Let me quote a little more from Max Weber. Bureaucratic administration dominates the people through knowledge. Technical knowledge and practical knowledge. Keeping that knowledge increases their superiority.
Absolute — independent, irresponsible. An absolute monarchy is one in which the sovereign does as he pleases so long as he pleases the assassins. Not many absolute monarchies are left, most of them having been replaced by limited monarchies, where the sovereign's power for evil (and for good) is greatly curtailed, and by republics, which are governed by chance.