Quotes About Control

As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.

The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.

If you want to build an open source project, you can't let your ego stand in the way. You can't rewrite everybody's patches, you can't second-guess everybody, and you have to give people equal control.

We should understand the source of our authority and something of the keys that control its power.

And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations.

Parents should be allowed to choose which cable or satellite channels - sources of the most extreme content - come into their homes.

We are developing a media policy which would be about breaking up single ownership of too many sources of information so that we have a multiplicity of sources.

As a country, we have confronted and controlled the most common sources of ozone precursors, and our options are few and far between to handle what remains, which is mostly naturally occurring ozone and ozone transported from other countries such as Mexico.

Incredible that liberals aren't more concerned about the monopoly of information in South Dakota.

Quite a few people who are in the media and in control of the big money seem to want to see these Southeast Asian countries - and, in particular, Malaysia - stop trying to catch up with their superiors and to know their place.

The whole of that part of Southern Africa which is controlled by racial minorities is experiencing either consistent and regular guerilla activity or is faced with advanced preparation for its commencement.

Border security is the most basic and necessary responsibility of a sovereign nation.

To be called a sovereign nation, a nation has to be able to control its own borders. It is controlling your own destiny in a way, and we don't control our own borders.

No state is free from militarism, which is inherent in the very concept of the sovereign state. There are merely differences of degree in the militarism of states.

Magna Charta is such a fellow, that he will have no sovereign.

I have come to realize that God is sovereign, and there are things I just don't understand.

A country isn't sovereign if we can't control who comes in and who's allowed to come in.

Parliament alone is sovereign.

A key part of your sovereignty is the ability to control the influx and outflow of your people and is the ability to secure your border.

In a pre-Internet world, sovereignty over our physical freedoms, or lack thereof, was controlled almost entirely by nation-states.

Every country has the right to own its own sovereignty.

I just find it absolutely bizarre that we are being lectured by the Americans about giving up our sovereignty and giving up control when the Americans won't even sign up to the international convention on the law of the seas, let alone the International Criminal Court.

I think there really is no shortcut to sovereignty.

Money is one of the elements of sovereignty.