Quotes About Control

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren

The tyranny of the many would be when one body takes over the rights of others, and then exercises its power to change the laws in its favor.

The power to tax involves the power to destroy;...the power to destroy may defeat and render useless the power to create.

In a free government almost all other rights would become worthless if the government possessed power over the private fortune of every citizen.

King has absolute power. And what he has given he can taken away.

As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.

Deception is a developed art of civilization and the most potent weapon in the game of power

The only limits of power are the bounds of belief.

When we experience the power of the Self, there is an absence of fear, there is no compulsion to control, and no struggle for approval or external power.

No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy.

Sociopaths love power. They love winning. If you take loving kindness out of the human brain, there's not much left except the will to win.

Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.

Iron hand in a velvet glove.

The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone.

To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.

Big fish eat small fish with as much right as they have power.

Had the decision belonged to Senator Kerry, Saddam Hussein would still be in power today in Iraq. In fact, Saddam Hussein would almost certainly still be in control of Kuwait.

I think we should stop using nuclear power plants because it's an old system that we can't control.

Do not lose power over the what-ifs of your life. These are unlimited and endless. Keep your power in the now, in present time.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

You have to take power. No one gives it.

When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.

To claim power over what you do not understand is not wise, nor is the end of it likely to be good.