Quotes About Control

'Plutocracy.' It has a perfect nuance: chilly, inaccessible, icy-rich.

The whole idea of a nuclear system is to have a deterrent where we decide if we're going to use it.

Issues of energy, climate change, nuclear arms control and non-proliferation are all big deals. These are problems that we have to get right globally, not just nationally, and there are big benefits in cooperating, in terms of sharing costs, in terms of sharing risks, in terms of propagating the best answers.

Most of my nightmares that jolt me awake either involve the cosmos or something completely out of human control. In reality, I worry more about nuclear war, or war in general.

Intermediary liability enables the Chinese authorities to minimize the number of people they need to put in jail in order to stay in power and to maximize their control over what the Chinese people know and don't know.

I am in favour of migration; I simply want to control the numbers.

One of the reasons why Australia and Canada have support for migration is because they control the numbers.

Everywhere, people are beginning to question masculine notions of control, aggression and black-and-white thinking - and instead are favoring more empathetic, nurturing and collaborative approaches.

The media believes that what Obama was gonna do when he took over, go dictator immediately, that was what this country needs, finally central government running everything.

The ACA purposely constrains choice as a top-down means of cost control. Obamacare isn't a consumer-driven, high-deductible scheme. It's hollow coverage.

If you control one house of Congress, you cannot abolish something like Obamacare, no matter how much pressure you apply.

If the government controls your health care, the government controls you. Obamacare was never about health care. It was about government power, dependency, and control.

People love information. Right now in our society, we have an obesity epidemic. Because for the first time in history, we have access to food whenever we want, we don't know how to control ourselves. I think we have the exact same problem with information.

Those who know the least obey the best.

The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.

The best way to put the federal bureaucracy back on a leash is to make it obey the laws the people write.

I would not like a king who could obey.

The communitarians may say you've been enjoying too much individual freedom, and that you must give up some of that for the benefit of the community. But they really mean that they want more power over your life - to force you to subsidize, obey and conform to their choices.

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

It is important to remember that a thought is harmless unless we believe them and act on them. As the subject, since thoughts are an object of your awareness, you have the power to challenge every thought. You can decide if you want to make that thought real.

In anger-management training, they teach you never to hit a person - hit an object. That's what they teach you.

Controlling the design of an everyday object is very satisfying.

We need the ball even to defend; that's our objective: having the ball and having it as far as possible from our goal as possible.

One of man's greatest obligations is anger.