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Quotes About Control

All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.
~ Benito Mussolini
The uniformity and obedience of the media, which any dictator would admire...
~ Noam Chomsky
Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.
~ Mario Puzo
The universal methodology of the tyrant is always incrementalism.
~ Derek R. Audette
Self-regulation stands in relation to regulation the way self-importance stands in relation to importance.
~ Willem Buiter
If you want to succeed in politics you must keep your conscience firmly under control.
~ David Lloyd George
Today it is infinitely easier to kill one million people than to control one million people.
~ Zbigniew Brzezinski
Every socialist is a disguised dictator.
~ Ludwig von Mises
Politics is everywhere.. it is in your shirt.. in your pants.. everywhere.
~ Rahul Gandhi
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
~ Paul Valery
If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.
~ Mikhail Bakunin
No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men.
~ Rose Wilder Lane
Socialism can only be put into practice only by methods which most socialists disapprove.
~ Friedrich August von Hayek
Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the object worship of the state.
~ Winston Churchill
Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.
~ Joseph de Maistre
Politics is the art of anesthesia.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Liberty is never safer than when politicans are terrified.
~ Ted Cruz
Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.
~ Guy de Maupassant
Censorship should never be allowed. One should be able to say anything. But I refuse to let politics be foisted on me.
~ Orhan Pamuk
It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.
~ Aneurin Bevan
In politics, manipulating reality can take presidence over finding reality.
~ George Soros
What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The definers want the power to name. And the defined are now taking that power away from them.
~ Toni Morrison
As government expands, liberty contracts.
~ Ronald Reagan
Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.
~ Joseph Stalin