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Quotes About Control

Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.
~ Aeschylus
The man whose authority is recent is always stern.
~ Aeschylus
It's not like we wanted to get really political in terms of specific causes, but I think a lot of the lyrics deal with paranoia and feeling like "the man" is in control somehow.
~ Andrew VanWyngarden
I always run into strong women who are looking for weak men to dominate them.
~ Andy Warhol
Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.
~ Baron de Montesquieu
There is a bizarre notion according to which it is claimed that because men are corrupt, it is necessary to give certain of them all the more power... on the contrary, they must be given less power.
~ Benjamin Constant
I think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man.
~ Billie Joe Armstrong
Me never believe in marriage that muchmarriage is a trap to control me; woman is a coward. Man strong.
~ Bob Marley
In Haig's presence, Kissinger referred pointedly to military men as "dumb, stupid animals to be used" as pawns for foreign policy.
~ Bob Woodward
Man proposes, and God disposes.
~ Ludovico Ariosto
Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness; we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it.
~ Marilyn French
I want fifteen referees at this fight…because there ain't no one man who can keep up with the pace I'm gonna set except me
~ Muhammad Ali
Men ought either to be well treated, or crushed.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Men are prisoners of their genitalia and women are the keepers of the keys to paradise.
~ Pat Conroy
Without game, men prey on each other.
~ Perry Farrell
Every present occasion will catch the senses of the vain man; and with that bridle and saddle you may ride him.
~ Philip Sidney
Man never legislates,but destinies and accidents,happening in all sorts of ways,legislate in all sorts of ways.
~ Plato
For some men, nothing is Written unless they Write it.
~ Omar Sharif
Although the paranoiacs make the great leaders, it's the resenters who make their best instruments because the resenters, those men with cancer of the psyche, make the great assassins.
~ Richard Condon
It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.
~ Hans Christian Andersen
Being a president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep on riding or he is swallowed.
~ Harry S. Truman
That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will.
~ Henry George
For too long, the U.S. has been operating upon the premise that American men and matériel should be capable of reaching and controlling all corners of the world. This was a bully's universe.
~ Ilana Mercer