Quotes About Control

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else.

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

Our destiny is not mapped out for us by some exterior power; we map it out for ourselves. What we think and do in the present determines what shall happen to us in the future.

The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall.

If you were to come to Minnesota, I could have you locked up like that. That's power.

It's all in your headJ you have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is yours.

The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.

Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.

Federalism is the best curb on democracy. [It] assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is limited. It excludes absolute power of the majority.

Power just makes you reject destiny and devour your fate.

We are the masters of our fate, the captains of our souls, because we have the power to control our thoughts.

Govern wisely, and as little as possible

Those who approach life like a child playing a game, moving and pushing pieces, possess the power of kings.

The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.

All the power's in the hands of people rich enough to buy it.

We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.

There is but one power in Europe, and that is Rothschild.

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

When I came to Mogadishu...here was one road built by the Italians. If you try to force me to stand down, I will leave the city as I found it. I came to power with a gun; only the gun can make me go.

Past and future have no power over you. Just the present - and even that can be minimized.

You are searching for the magic key that will unlock the door to the source of power; and yet you have the key in your own hands, and you may use it the moment you learn to control your thoughts.