Quotes About Control

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

To be frank, politics is about wanting power, getting it, exercising it, and keeping it.

The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.

Rising inequality isn't about who has the knowledge; it's about who has the power.

In Berlin Jews controlled almost one hundred percent of the theaters and cinemas before the rise to power.

Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

Neither a state nor a bank ever have had unrestricted power of issuing paper money without abusing that power.

The one means that wins the easiest victory over reason is terror and force.

The power of thought, of idea, is incommensurable, is immeasurable. The world is dominated by thought.

Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.

What journalism is really about-it's to monitor power and the centres of power.

The only limit to the oppression of government is the power with which the people show themselves capable of opposing it.

Remember: you are the only person who thinks in your mind! You are the power and authority in your world.

Nothing can prevent your picture from coming into concrete form except the same power which gave it birth – yourself. (Genevieve Behrend)

If a man has enough power, he can speak softly and everyone will listen

And the American people should be made aware of the trend toward the monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power in fewer and fewer hands.

Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Facing your fears robs them of their power.

If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now.

There is a place where God, through the power of the Holy Ghost, reigns supreme in our lives.

Power wears out those who don't have it

Power intoxicates men. It is never voluntarily surrendered. It must be taken from them.

The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.

The weapon where the man is sitting in is always superior against the other.