Quotes About Control

It is a strange desire, to seek power and to lose liberty.

Chiefly the mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration but no rest.

He that commands the sea is at great liberty, and may take as much and as little of the war as he will.

Nature is commanded by obeying her.

Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.

If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

He of whom many are afraid ought to fear many.

A la naturaleza se le domina obedeciendola.

Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.

Politics emerges as a mechanism for controlling violence, yet violence constantly remains as a background condition for certain types of political change. Societies can get stuck in a dysfunctional institutional equilibrium, in which existing stakeholders can veto necessary institutional change. Sometimes violence or the threat of violence is necessary to break out of the equilibrium.

In many cases, authoritarian states are capable of producing rates of economic growth unachievable in democratic societies.

The English race, consequently, has long and successfully studied the art of curbing executive power to the constant neglect of the art of perfecting executive methods. It has exercised itself much more in controlling than in energizing government. It has been more concerned to render government just and moderate than to make it facile, well-ordered and effective.

Slavery and serfdom, while not unknown in tribal societies, expand enormously under the aegis of states.

Recognition is the central problem of politics because it is the origin of tyranny, imperialism, and the desire to dominate.

We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.

Do 'keystones' have a 'Master'?

Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice.

The way to subject all things to thyself is to subject thyself to reason; thou shalt govern many if reason govern thee. Wouldst thou be a monarch of a little world, command thyself.

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

My mind is my kingdom.

One thing that I am sure of... is that whatever the contingencies that may arise, wherever I am there will be no Communism

In one case I heard that the censor, in a city in Tamaulipas state, was a local journalist employed by a cartel who sat at a desk in a newspaper office making the final decisions about what that paper could publish and what it couldn't.