Quotes About Control

All professions are conspiracies against the laity.

I live in constant fear of being fired or dropped for that dark part of my work I can't control.

Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.

The idea of a government is to create an ordered, willing work force where there's no trouble. I think idlers are generally seen as potentially dangerous because they're asking questions.

Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.

I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.

God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.

The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.

Raising people is not some lark. It's serious work with serious repercussions. It's air-traffic control. You can't step out for a minute; you can barely pause to scratch your ankle.

We don't want a busybody government - a boss - that butts into our lives every chance it gets to tell us how to work, how to play, where to live and on and on.

I can work myself up into a fearful, paralyzing state of mind that can last for days, weeks even months where I feel mad, totally isolated and alone, overwhelmed and completely out of control.

Red lights, green lights, stop and go jive. Headlines, deadlines, jamming your mind.

No matter where I am working, I cannot make a film without 100% creative control and final cut. If there is such a guarantee, I can work anywhere.

The world you live in is 100 percent your own responsibility. If you don't like your world, it doesn't work to say, "Well, it's my mother's fault. She taught me how to think."

Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us, and now we are discovering we work for Fox

The only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them.

Just as outlawing alcohol did not work in the 1920s, current attempts to prohibit online gambling will not work, either.

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Despite crime's omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually restores itself, by psychic equilibrium.

If I'm not doing the work I want, I usually suffer a psychological allergic reaction and get ill. It niggles when things get out of my control.

The Pentagon today will not allow any of these people who work for the Pentagon, to talk to the media. They have gagged them from talking to members of Congress.

What has changed is that when I photographed, most people that I photographed didn't have the right of refusal on their work. It would take a Marilyn Monroe at her height to be able to dictate that.

Innovation is a discipline not a lottery... It comes from the combination of two elements within my control: hard work and openmindedness.

Leaving [from EU] will allow us to return real democratic control to important areas of national life; from international trade, the right to work and live in Britain to business regulation.