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Quotes About Control

Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
~ Sinclair Lewis
I don't think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don't take the toys out of their hands, we're fools.
~ Ray Bradbury
The ideal Government of all reflective men, from Aristotle onward, is one which lets the individual alone - one which barely escapes being no government at all.
~ H. L. Mencken
He's not just the most powerful man in labor," Robert Kennedy had said in the wake of Hoffa's announcement; "he's the most powerful man in the country, next to the President.
~ Jimmy Hoffa
The tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
~ James, son of Zebedee
When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins.
~ Neal Stephenson
When a man takes an oath... he's holding his own self in his own hands. Like water.
~ Robert Bolt
Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.
~ Chuck Norris
The moment a man claims a right to control the will of a fellow being by physical force, he is at heart a slaveholder.
~ Henry Clarke Wright
Hollywood is controlled by homosexual Jewish men who expect favors in return for sexual activity.
~ John Travolta
Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
~ Madonna Ciccone
When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys
~ George Orwell
Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
~ Immanuel Kant
Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man.
~ H. L. Mencken
The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military.
~ William O. Douglas
And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head.
~ Pliny the Younger
Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.
~ Henry Steele Commager
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
~ Sallust
Most Christians salute the sovereignty of God but believe in the sovereignty of man.
~ R. C. Sproul
You had to hand it to the Patrician, he admitted grudgingly. If you didn't, he sent men to come and take it away.
~ Terry Pratchett
Too much liberty leads both men and nations to slavery.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Last week I lost my temper in my karate class. Man, I'm not doing that again until I'm a black belt. Because I can tell you there's a difference between taking karate and receiving karate.
~ Demetri Martin
There are some men who turn a deaf ear to reason and good advice, and willfully go wrong for fear of being controlled.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
Anyone who can appease a man's conscience can take his freedom away from him.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky