Quotes About Control

You get trapped by stories. Though I've got this reputation for being out of control, it's not true, it just happens to be a more interesting story than the truth.

All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.

Truth is suppressed, not to protect the country from enemy agents but to protect the Government of the day against the people.

Politics determines who has the power, not who has the truth.

Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.

In obedience there is always fear, and fear darkens the mind.

The truth, whether we admit it or not, is that grace scares us to death. It scares us primarily because it wrestles control and manageability out of our hands - introducing chaos and freedom.

Our feelings are real and they are powerful, but they are not more powerful than God and truth.

Whereas the truth is that the State in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best and most quietly governed, and the State in which they are most eager, the worst.

Tartakower once wrote that after planting a Knight in the center you can go to sleep. This is not to be taken literally, of course, but it contains more than a germ of truth.

Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Once your writing is out there, you can't control how other people perceive it. All you can do is stand in your truth.

The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders.

This was the consequence of seeing too much and understanding the horrible truth: No one is safe. The world is not manageable.

Most of the time a spark of beauty or truth will start a fire of a song but fires rarely produce goodness on their own ... you need to control them and put them to work.

It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars.

The truth is what I make it. I could set this world on fire and call it rain.

Our rulers for more than half a century have made sure that we are never to be told the truth about anything that our government has done to other people, not to mention our own.

The truth is, I'm not a coper. I hate stress. I might appear calm externally but internally it's all going on.

The fundamental truth is that the guys with the guns matter more than most.

The truth is, if we don't learn to submit to authority, we won't ever learn to submit to God.

Some forms of truth are really forms of social power and oppression.

The old proverb, applied to fire and water, may with equal truth be applied to the imagination - it is a good servant, but a bad master.

Truth was a tool. It should never simply be said. No, it had to be bent, twisted, colored, until it became a weapon.