Quotes About Control

From politics it was an easy step to silence.

The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.

When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it.

Politics is the shadow cast on society by big business.

All politics is a struggle for power; the ultimate kind of power is violence.

A politician... one that would circumvent God.

It's common to go from 'crashing the gate' to guarding it.

Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces.

Politics cannot stop to study psychology Its methods are rough; its judgments rougher still.

Big Business and Politics are twins, they are the monsters who kill everything, corrupt everything.

No. I probably do better not being in politics. They have too much control over you when you are in politics.

What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples' decisions for them?

You can't build politics on love. People aren't concerned with love; it's too disordered. They prefer despotism. Too much freedom breeds chaos.

No man has ever ruled other men for their own good.

For those who say I can't impose my morality on others, I say just watch me.

The fundamental question of politics has always been whether there should be politics.

Sales of George Orwell's 1984 have skyrocketed. It's true. So the fallout from the (NSA spying) scandal is worse than we thought. It's forcing Americans to read.

The NRA, with the fingers on the triggers when they kneel and pray.

Wealth aggregates and becomes political power. Simple as that. 'Corporation' is just the most recent name for it.

Anarchists have taken over (the GOP).

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.

Ridicule is about the most powerful weapon possible.

Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.