Quotes About Control

When you look at our world, the truth is that we're all under the influence of politics.

if you tell yourself the great lie of bad art-that you are in charge-your chance at the truth will be lost. The truth isn't always pretty.

Humans are beasts, until tamed.

To declare the raw truth is to live in dominion

The Illusion of Truth Gives Us the Delusion of Power

If you want to make God laugh, tell him-her your plan

How many geniuses are we putting to sleep today and where would our world be now, if the age of pill popping, mind numbing control existed during the times of Da Vinci, Shakespeare, or Einstein?

A person with the best strategy never gets angry.

Not to love God is to be a puppet

Every insecure soul has a government of their own and a paid judge in their court room.

It's all about money, not freedom. You think you're free? Try going somewhere without money.

...true authority is not based on control - it's based on truth...

Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.

My only fixed truth is a belief in people: a conviction that if people have the opportunity to act freely and the power to control their own destinies, they'll generally reach the right decisions.

The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born, it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons.

Ruby knew then that a lie could only control a person if they believed it.

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.

Censorship may promote the lies, but it does not alter the truth.

[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives

Non poté fare altro, naturalmente, che incorniciare le sue frasi in quel modo vuoto e stantio di cui ormai era schiavo. Qualsiasi cosa si provi, nel cuore o nello stomaco, le vecchie abitudini restano radicate. Parole e gesti rispondono a leggi dittatoriali, senza fantasia; un rito spettrale, che nega lo spirito.

Tonin decided that it might be a good thing to be the King of the Droids. He was now a mighty leader, in command of hundreds of utility droids aboard Iron Fist.

Conley was not, as they say in recovery-speak, a "jackpot drinker," prone to big, messy binges that leave disasters in their wake. "It was more of a controlled, low-level draining of my energies and output," he says. "I could feel my songwriting falling off. I was just having a harder time finishing things, really getting a little stuck.