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Quotes About Control

We really must keep under control, and pretty strict control, the area within which 'The Man in Whitehall' knows best.
~ Hugh Gaitskell
My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what's mine.
~ Kevin Hart
In order to obtain and hold power, a man must love it.
~ Leo Tolstoy
An animal will conquer others. A Spirit-filled man conquers himself - self-discipline , self-control.
~ Mark Driscoll
Those looking for ideology in the White House should consider this: For the men who rule our world, rules are for other people.
~ Naomi Klein
The press is owned by wealthy men who only want certain things to reach the public.
~ Noam Chomsky
Without a filter, a man is just chaos walking.
~ Patrick Ness
A man could rant and smash and grapple with the State Police, and still the sprinklers whirled at dusk on every lawn and the television droned in every living room.
~ Richard Yates
Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God.
~ Sigmund Freud
A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
~ Sinclair Lewis
Men are pigs. Too bad we own everything.
~ Tim Allen
The state does not function as we desired. A man is at the wheel and seems to lead it, but the car does not drive in the desired direction. It moves as another force wishes.
~ Vladimir Lenin
Fear is in almost all cases a wretched instrument of government, and ought in particular never to be employed against any order of men who have the smallest pretensions to independency.
~ Adam Smith
The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires.
~ Aristotle
Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
~ Arthur Miller
The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.
~ Bella Abzug
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it needs a driver.
~ Bertolt Brecht
Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.
~ Calvin Coolidge
In terms of addiction, there is nothing more powerful than men's toys.
~ Sammy Davis, Jr.
Show me the man who keeps his house in hand, He's fit for public authority.
~ Sophocles
In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten.
~ Voltaire
Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power.
~ Walter Lippmann
Anytime you can already have somebody in a pinning position where they can't kick out, what better than that for a brilliant man.
~ William Regal
Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.
~ William Shakespeare