Quotes About Control

I need not wait for I have the power to choose my own destiny.

One of the tremendous evils of the world, is the monstrous accumulation of power in a few hands.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.

The essence of politics is to direct oneself to the group which wields power

Some think that they will exercise power for the general good, but that is what all those with power have believed. Power is evil in itself, regardless of who exercises it.

John Wayne represents more force, more power, than anybody else on the screen.

Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex.

Leadership is not about control but service. Its not about power but empowerment

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

The greatest power of the mass media is the power to ignore. The worst thing about this power is that you may not even know you're using it.

As whites see their power and control over their lives declining, will they simply go quietly into the night? Or will there be an explosion?

What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.

All power is inherent in the people.

But the power of destiny is something awesome; neither wealth, nor Ares, nor a tower, nor dark-hulled ships might escape it.

Money is power, and rare are the heads that can withstand the possession of great power.

The conductor's stand is not a continent of power, but rather an island of solitude.

When you REACT you are giving away your power. When you RESPOND you are staying in control of yourself.

Opportunity has power over all things.

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

How necessary it is at all times to watch against the attempted encroachment of power, and to prevent its running to excess.

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.

Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.

I think the power of persuasion would be the greatest superpower of all time.