Quotes About Control

I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.

The best answer to anger is silence.

The cigarette does the smoking — you're just the sucker.

No man actually owns a fortune; it owns him.

The last best hope of earth, two trillion dollars in debt, is spinning out of control, and all we can do is stare at a flickering cathode-ray tube as Ollie answers questions on TV while the press, resolutely irrelevant as ever, asks politicians if they have committed adultery. From V-J Day 1945 to this has been, my fellow countrymen, a perfect nightmare.

There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.

Always a godfather, never a god.

Marriage is an institution for the paralysis of the sexual instinct.

Ich will doch sehen, wer mich hält, - wer mich zwingt, - wer der Mensch ist, der einen Menschen zwingen kann.

Dear Lord, here is something again that I don't know how to manage and can't do anything about. Won't You please take over, and help me to trust it utterly to You? Show me just what to say and do.

when you start telling a man he's got to do this, that or the other thing, you're coming pretty damned close to infringing on a citizen's rights.

This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now it's all checks and no balances.

When God wants people to stay asleep, they stay asleep.

The common theme through all of this is the relationship of the state and state power: what happens when the state loses control over doctrine. We see it almost invariably releases popular participation in political and social events, often unleashing radical activism, especially when conditions are bad.

They had one all-important goal: to ensure that church and state maintained sole monopoly over doctrine.

To create something does not mean to see through to its depths; we do not drain our children to the dregs by begetting them, but set them loose in the world like wild dogs, beyond our control and often beyond our knowledge.

You have the choice of deliberately directing your thinking, or allowing other forces to dictate your desires and attitudes.

The sooner we all learn to make a decision between disapproval and censorship, the better off society will be....Censorship cannot get at the real evil, and it is an evil in itself.

A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.

We'll have a public power authority, which will also have the ability to build power or finance power. And more importantly, we'll have more power than our economy provides. All of that will give us leverage we don't have today.

When we commit to action, to actually doing something rather than feeling trapped by events, the stress becomes manageable.

At the time thousands of Africans were dying over control of diamonds sold in shopping malls around the world, U.S president Bill Clinton was impeached for perjury, NATO began bombing Yugoslavia, and everyone else was preparing for digital disaster from Y2K

Feel the power of the Dark Side," he murmured. "Always," Parker said.

The shadows betray you, because they belong to me…