Quotes About Control

People are submissive to power, and few of them can be influenced by doctrines of righteousness.

Each person is born with an infinite power, against which no earthly force is of the slightest significance.

There is only one thing in this world, and that is to keep acquiring money and more money, power and more power. All the rest is meaningless.

[Socialistic] economic planning, regulation, and intervention pave the way to totalitarianism by building a power structure that will inevitably be seized by the most power-hungry and unscrupulous.

It all begins and ends in your mind. What you give power to, has power over you, if you allow it.

The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence.

In painting, you have unlimited power. You have the ability to move mountains. You can bend rivers. But when i get home the only thing i have power over is the garbage.

Politics is the art of making the people believe that they are in power, when in fact, they have none.

The purpose of criminal law is to punish the enemies of those in power.

But remember, this power of the people on top depends on the obedience of the people below. When people stop obeying, they have no power.

Anarchy is the stepping stone to absolute power.

The man who puts all the guns and all the decision-making power into the hands of the central government and then says, 'Limit yourself'; it is he who is truly the impractical utopian.

The only thing power respects, is power.

There is no logical reason why thoughts, which have no substance, should have so much power over you, nor is there any reason why you should become their slave

Without a strong educational system — free of government control — democracy is crippled. Knowledge is not only the key to power. It is the citadel of human freedom.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

If I were to give liberty to the press, my power could not last three days.

Socialists cry "Power to the people", and raise the clenched fist as they say it. We all know what they really mean - power over people, power to the State.

You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.

Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world.

He who votes does not have power. He who counts the votes has power.

Man is not by nature a tyrant, but becomes a tyrant by power conferred on him.

The origin of all power is in the people, and they have an incontestable right to check the creatures of their own creation.

There is no force in the universe more powerful than your will or power.