Quotes About Control

Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.

For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not.

The meaning of poetry has no sureness of direction; is like the sling, it is not under control.

What I try to do is to keep emotion on a tight leash; otherwise, it can never be transubstantiated into poetry.

People in power tend to find poetry dangerous to them because it is dislocating, they can't catch it, can't control it. They prefer coherence, what's blunt and has clarity.

Reality, the oppressor's tongue.

The one who pulls the puppet strings knows fairytales can heal.

Falling in love with you was out of my control, but I do have a say in what happens next. And, I will choose to stay in love with you through everything this life throws at us.

It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes.

A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.

The socialized state is to justice, order, and freedom what the Marquis de Sade is to love.

Islam is politics or it is nothing.

The decisive means for politics is violence.

A government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence.

To change masters is not to be free.

It is not power that corrupts but fear.

Fascism is definitely and absolutely opposed to the doctrines of liberalism, both in the political and economic sphere.

Our destiny is not written for us, but by us.

What's going on in the Senate is kind of a politics of escalation. We're getting sort of like the Mideast: pay back everybody when you're in charge.

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.

The political philosophy of black nationalism means that the black man should control the politics and the politicians in his own community; no more.

Politics and church are the same. They keep the people in ignorance.

It is easier to run a revolution than a government.

Either one lives for politics or one lives off politics.