Quotes About Control

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.

We think of politics in terms of power and who has the power. Politics is the end to which that power is put.

However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power

When you give politicians the power to do what you think is right you're automatically giving politicians the power to do what you think is wrong.

The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.

If knowledge is power, clandestine knowledge is power squared; it can be withheld, exchanged, and leveraged.

Offense is the essence of air power.

Power just goes to two poles — to those who've got money, and those who've got people.

Money is a bad god. People are a bad god. They don't have the power to do what God can do.

Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.

The mere possession of a gun is, in itself, an urge to kill, not only by design, but by accident, by madness, by fright, by bravado.

The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.

Music is the celestial sound, and it is sound that controls the whole universe, not atomic vibrations. Sound energy, sound power, is much, much greater than any other power in the world.

Abuse of power comes as no surprise

The thing to keep in mind is that laws are framed by those who happen to be in power and for the purpose of keeping them in power.

The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

It's not just the abuse of power that's the problem. It's the power to abuse.

Those who have been intoxicated with power... can never willingly abandon it.

And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.

To live means to buy, to buy means to have power, to have power means to have responsibility.

Happiness is a 'state of mind' which we ourselves have the power to control - and that control lies in our thinking.