Quotes About Control

In that power of self-control lies the seed of eternal freedom.

It lies not in our power to love or hate, for will in us is overruled by fate.

He who has his thumb on the purse has the power.

All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

The freedom of a government does not depend on the quality of its laws, but upon the power that has the right to create them.

[C]ensorship in any form is the opening wedge for fascism, since it places arbitrary and unwarranted power in the hands of individuals.

Sovereignty and the right to rule cannot be conferred on anyone no matter who ... as a result of an academic discussion. Sovereignty is acquired by force and power and violence.

The problem isn't the abuse of power; it's the power to abuse.

Everyone may be called "comrade," but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.

I have had so many evidences of [God's] direction, so many instances when I have been controlled by some other power than my own will, that I cannot doubt that this power comes from above.

Power is nothing unless you can turn it into influence.

The love of power is the demon of mankind.

The Opposite of Love is not hate, but power

The issuing power [of money] should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.

Power as is really divided, and as dangerously to all purposes, by sharing with another an Indirect Power, as a Direct one.

Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story.

Understand: A person of power instills a kind of fear by deliberately unsettling those around him to keep the initative on his side.

But, to protect men, we must have the power of controlling them. We must first enslave them before we can protect them.

... perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it.

The more famous and powerful I get the more power I have to hurt men.

Wall Street has enormous power over the Republican Party, enormous power over the Democratic Party.

It is the greatest manifestation of power to be calm.

When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.