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Quotes About Control

People who rely most on God rely least on themselves.
~ Lemuel K. Washburn
Like all women she was tyrannized by her biology.
~ Len Deighton
Breslow!' Stein's voice was so loud that it made the thin hardboard walls of the dressing room rattle as they echoed back the sound of it. 'Breslow!' It was more like a cry for help than a threat. 'Breslow!' shouted Stein again. He was beginning to realize that Max Breslow controlled a thousand Führers.
~ Len Deighton
On the dance floor, as much as you say, 'Ladies, you are the car. He is the driver. You can only go where he takes you ' they still try to be in control.
~ Len Goodman
The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.
~ Lenin
If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism.
~ lenin vladimir ii
Comrade Stalin, having become Secretary-General, has unlimited authority concentrated in his hands, and I am not sure whether he will always be capable of using that authority with sufficient caution.
~ lenin vladimir ii
Every cook must learn to rule the State.
~ lenin vladimir iv
We must always remember to thank the CIA and the Army for LSD. That's what people forget.... They invented LSD to control people and what they did was give us freedom.
~ lennon john iii
Take away the right to say "f**" and you take away the right to say "f** the government."
~ Lenny Bruce
Since he's the leader of the gang, he gets to say what the
~ Lenore Look
Those who rule us have brilliantly applied the maxim that the best defense against truth is the unswerving repetition of lies.
~ Leo Bersani
power aims to produce subjects defined (and, correlatively, made visible and controlled) by particular desires.
~ Leo Bersani
There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that I have complete control.
~ Leo Buscaglia
We created time, and now we have become the slave of time.
~ Leo Buscaglia
When man has love he is no longer at the mercy of forces greater than himself, for he, himself, becomes the powerful force
~ Leo Buscaglia
I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,' and then you do it.
~ Leo F. Buscaglia
Amerika Birle?ik Devletleri hüküetinin efendileri, ABD'nin birbirlerine s?k? s?k?ya ba?l? sermayedarlar? ve sanayicileridir." - Woodrow Wilson
~ Leo Huberman
Temptations can come also from the deep-seated forces within us which we call passions, passions that often are rebellious and imperfectly controlled as a result of original sin. But from whatever source the temptation may come, we know that we can conquer it if we have the will to do so.
~ Leo John Trese
We are now brought face to face with a tyranny which holds out the threat of becoming, thanks to "the conquest of nature" and in particular of human nature, what no other tyranny ever became: perpetual and universal.
~ Leo Strauss
But what is the core of the political? Men killing men on the largest scale in broad daylight and with the greatest serenity.
~ Leo Strauss
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Kings are the slaves of history.
~ Leo Tolstoy
What is the cause of historical events? Power. What is power? Power is the sum total of wills transferred to one person. On what condition are the willso fo the masses transferred to one person? On condition that the person express the will of the whole people. That is, power is power. That is, power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand.
~ Leo Tolstoy