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Quotes About Control

It's about not letting the internal enemy, the real enemy, have his way because the more he does the stronger he becomes. The film's about the devastating results that can manifest from the internal enemy being unbridled and allowed to unleash chaos.
~ Guy Ritchie
Scientists appear most often in horror movies. Through childlike curiosity or God-defying hubris, they unleash destructive forces they can't control - 'Forbidden Planet's Monsters of the Id.
~ Virginia Postrel
I'll tell you what, I had complete control on 'Unleashed.' I directed, produced, chose the musician, picked the costumes, and everything. I never had anyone saying, 'I don't like this and I don't like that.' The studio, Universal, were easy. It was this weird movie no one cared about.
~ Louis Leterrier
Power is dangerous unless you have humility.
~ Richard J. Daley
Nobody's angry all the time, unless you're a psycho.
~ Brian Azzarello
Unless we abandon elements which resemble a police state, we can't meet the demands of being a modern society.
~ Ahmet Necdet Sezner
Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.
~ Thomas Sowell
Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
~ Don Marquis
Castro couldn't even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet.
~ Richard M. Nixon
I felt like a prisoner. In Qatar, you need a sponsor to get a work permit and you cannot leave the country unless you have an exit permit from your sponsor.
~ Jay-Jay Okocha
Women, by nature, want to be dominated.
~ Jayne Mansfield
...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
~ Aldous Huxley
You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.
~ Diane von Furstenberg
Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
~ Anthony Trollope
Men always believe they are in control of everything around them. When they find out they are not, they think they have failed, instead of learning a simple truth women already know.
~ Robert Jordan
Actually, even our virility depends on the gaze and the control of women. Without women, we cannot do anything. I think it's a good thing.
~ Ousmane Sembene
I think that submissiveness can [be] and is a formidable weapon, which women will use as long as it isn't taken from them.
~ Anne Desclos
As the feminist saying goes, 'Women deliver.' In other words, when women control resources, the social gain is greater than when men control resources.
~ Linda Gordon
Why have I so little control? It is the case of much waste and pain in my life.
~ Virginia Woolf
Women have always ruled my life, be it my mother, my wife, my assistant, or my daughter, so I don't really fight with them. I relinquished control years ago.
~ Jon Bon Jovi
Mr. DeMille's theory of sexual difference was that marriage is an artificial state for women. The want to be taken, ruled, raped. That was his theory.
~ Hedy Lamarr
I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
~ Mae West
She stared at him in that vapid, intoxicated way employed only by women under a vamp's control. Or the way I sometimes got when faced with cupcakes. Mmm. Cupcakes.
~ Kiersten White
What pisses me off is when I've got seven or eight record company fat pig men sitting there telling me what to wear.
~ Sinead O'Connor