Quotes About Control

No man has any influence or power for good when angry.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.

Power is like saltwater; the more you drink, the thirstier you get.

Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.

As the old saying goes, 'money is power' and the more money the government takes, the more power it has over individuals.

What good fortune for those in power that people do not think.

Where love stops, power begins, and violence, and terror.

Power isn't having the world at your fingertips; it is having the world at your fingertips and being able to give it up!

The less you fear, the more power you will have.

The power of the state is measured by the power that men surrender to it.

Fear is but another name for lack of power to control our minds, or, in other words, to control the kind of thought we think or put out.

Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power.

I am the slave of an internal power more powerful than my education.

Knowledge, which is power, knows no limits, either in its enslavement of creation or in its deference to worldly masters.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

All political institutions are manifestations and materializations of power; they petrify and decay as soon as the living power of the people ceases to uphold them.

The power of the culture industry's ideology is such that conformity has replaced consciousness

My power is my property. My power gives me property. My power am I myself, and through it am I my property.

Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.

Power positions do not yield to arguments, however rationally and morally valid, but only to superior power.

The power to see change in your life can be found in the words you speak. You have the power to set the destiny for your life by what comes out of your mouth.

Those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside

All power, even the most despotic, rests ultimately on opinion.