Quotes About Control

I have to speak for myself. As far as videos go - casting, the artwork, everything - I'm completely hands-on. You have to be if you want your points across.

If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him.

The idea that fear can manipulate people and you can use fear in the media to get what you want is happening right now. I think it has a lot of relevance between 2017 and 70's.

I am against resources being controlled by corporations, but that doesn't mean I want them controlled by the state.

I figured, 'If I ever get offered a chance to sign a deal, I'll only do it if I got to do it how I want.' So my contract is structured in such a way that I'm really protected.

We still can't control the consequences our choices will bring. Not only do we want freedom of choice, but we also want a guarantee that whatever we choose will be exactly as we envisioned it.

Authoritarians tend to consolidate support by using fear, but more importantly by driving a wedge among the people that they want to control.

Fortunately we're not a public company - we're a private group of companies, and I can do what I want.

I'm not one of those people who as a writer lets my characters tell me what they want to do or call to me or seek me. I go seeking for things, using them as an agent, really.

Life, unfortunately, doesn?t seem to care what we want. Act now while you can actually stop it from being a disaster.

Unbelievable," I said. "First you wanted to hide her away to keep you alive. Now you actually want her out in the world to use her compulsion for your own psycho plans.

Destroy it?' Leo was appalled. 'You've got a life-size bronze dragon, and you want to destroy it?' 'It breathes fire,' Nyssa explained. 'It's deadly and out of control.' 'But it's a dragon!

Your most important "want" should be the one you can control!

Power. It's all about that, don't you forget. People want money or power.

You get what you want and you become its slave.

Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.

There is no need for propaganda to be rich in intellectual content.

During a war, news should be given out for instruction rather than information.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

If we have power, we'll never give it up again unless we're carried out of our offices as corpses

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.