Quotes About Control

I don't want power. I just object to idiots having power over me.

A disciplined person is the one who follows the will of the one who gives the orders.

A man with a club is a law-maker.

The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.

What discord should we bring into the universe if our prayers were all answered! Then we should govern the world, and not God. And do you think we should govern it better?

In this world, a man must be either anvil or hammer.

Will is the pimp of appetite.

It's a good thing I'm a reasonably patient woman. Otherwise, I might have to kill you.

What am I going to do with you? I have suggestions, but this might not be the place for them.

Don't worry, Mrs. Colder. For the most part, we keep him leashed and gagged. We only let him free when the cute little animal jokes are needed. ~Sherra Callahan (on Kane Tyler)~

You have five minutes to call someone, anyone, I don't care who, and order me the finest blend of coffee that rat hole town has, and a dozen beers. If it's not sitting on this table..." a slender finger pointed furiously at the table in question,"... in one hour, you die" - Faith telling Jacob

Because sometimes, a man could do nothing about where he came from, he could only control where he went

Hence the explanation of sin is that God permits it, but controls and overrules it for His own glory. If

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the party that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.

Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.

We know that the doctrine of equality leads by steps not only logical, but almost mechanical, to sacrifice the principle of liberty to the principle of quantity; that, being unable to abdicate responsibility and power, it attacks genuine representation, and, as there is no limit where there is no control, invades, sooner or later, both property and religion.

It was from America that the plain ideas that men ought to mind their business, and that the nation is responsible to Heaven for the acts of the State -- ideas long locked in the breast of solitary thinkers, and hidden among Latin folios -- burst forth like a conqueror upon the world they were destined to transform, under the title of the Rights of Man ... and the principle gained ground, that a nation can never abandon its fate to an authority it cannot control.

Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things.

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.

And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangstersget control. History has proven that. All power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean - roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; Man marks the earth with ruin - his control Stops with the shore.

Whatever happens will be for the worse, and it is therefore in our interest that as little should happen as possible

Like having your own licence to print money.