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Quotes About Control

Hillary Clinton's raising the money from the people she wants to control.
~ Donald Trump
Hillary Clinton wants to put the government totally in charge of your health care despite the fact it's no good. It'll be much more expensive than even today.
~ Donald Trump
You got the ball in your hands and you're in command, and if you get your good pitch where you want it, nobody's gonna hit you.
~ Dwight Gooden
Anything I do, I spend a lot of time. I do it with passion and intensity. I want to be in charge.
~ Eli Broad
Except if it has some historical meaning for them to have Tibet under their control. I don't understand why [ Chinese] want it so much.
~ Elie Wiesel
Footballers nowadays are controlling their image through their own Facebook page so its not the club that controls them anymore, they do what they want at anytime.
~ Emmanuel Petit
People have to understand that they can reject technology. They can turn off their cell phone. They can stop looking at their e-mail. It's there if they want it. It's not being forced on them.
~ Esther Dyson
In my stories I can kiss the girls I want to kiss and punch the girls I want to punch. Nobody pays a price for it.
~ Etgar Keret
There is a kind of syndrome of girls who want to dirty themselves. They have the power. They control everything.
~ Francois Ozon
I don't micromanage the interiors. People ask me to and I say no. I don't want to control everything.
~ Frank Gehry
Your reason is your friend. It defends the island of your awareness. But you don't want your reason to rule everything.
~ Frederick Lenz
The problem is that the dictator of the tonal wants to eliminate the mystery of life.
~ Frederick Lenz
People who drain others have a certain world they want to get to when they die, and you're their ticket!
~ Frederick Lenz
[The human control of atomic energy could] virtually provide anyone who wanted it with a private sun of his own.
~ Frederick Soddy
We feign pity when we want to demonstrate our ascendancy over feelings of hostility: but usually in vain. Whenever we notice this,there is an accompanying surge in those hostile sensations.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
People in great need were quick to find blame in themselves, quick to assume the burden of guilt for things they in truth had no control over and could not hope to change. It was, she had begun to understand, integral to the very nature of belief, of faith. A need that could not be answered by the self was then given over to someone or something greater than oneself, and this form of surrender was a lifting of a vast, terrible weight.
~ Steven Erikson
People in great need were quick to find blame in themselves, quick to assume the burden of guilt for things they in truth had no control over and could not hope to change.
~ Steven Erikson
The act of taking offence becomes a weapon, and its wielder feels empowered by the false indignation.
~ Steven Erikson
A man possessing power must act decisively, Ganoes Paran. Else it trickle away through his fingers.
~ Steven Erikson
Freedom – she understood now – was something so long lost among humans that they had forgotten what it felt like. Bend to your labours! Grasp those coins! Keep the doors locked and fires raging to empty the shadows behind you! Make your brothers and sisters kneel before you, to serve your pleasures. Are you free? You don't remember the truth of what once was – of what you all so willingly surrendered.
~ Steven Erikson
The power he commanded insisted upon subjects. Strength was ever relative, and he could not dominate without the company of the dominated.
~ Steven Erikson
Yes, gather your disaffected, ignorant fools, then. Fill their heads with the noble glory of a non-existent past, then send them out with their eyes blazing in stupid - but comforting - fervor. And this will begin our new golden age, an exultation in the pleasures of repression and tyrannical control over the lives of everyone. Hail the mighty Errant, the god who brooks no dissent.
~ Steven Erikson
Every tyranny imaginable is possible when prefaced by the notion that it is for the well-being of the populace.
~ Steven Erikson
A man pushed from behind by many hands will go in but one direction, no matter what he wills.
~ Steven Erikson