Quotes About Control

Oppression is the essence of power.

To think! All that power and he wasn't even rich!

In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support [salary] is a power over his will.

Once you realize that will power is just a matter of learning how to control your attention and thoughts, you can really begin to increase it.

God and the people are the source of all power. I have twice been given the power. I have taken it, and damn it, I will keep it forever.

History is not happenstance: it is conspiratorial. Carefully planned and executed by people in power.

Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.

If you are distressed by something, it is due to your own estimate of it; and you have the power to change it at will.

If you can turn off certain categories of law, do you not also have the power to turn off all categories of law?

A leader leads from in front, by the power of example. A ruler pushes from behind, by means of the club, the whip, the power of fear.

Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.

Each state enjoys sovereign power.

It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity

The power of God, the Holy Ghost, is the Spirit of Dominion. It makes one a god.

All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do sowould I?

No government knows any limits to its power except the endurance of the people.

The truth was that all men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Real power is achieved when the ruling class controls the material essentials of life, granting and withholding them from the masses as if they were privileges.

This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be.

Where there is no common power, there is no law

If we will not endure a king as a political power, we should not endure a king over the production, transportation, and sale of any of the necessaries of life.

Whenever there's a camera around, a video or film camera, it's a great deal harder for those in power to bury the story.