Quotes About Control

But my patience isn't limitless... unlike my authority.

An armed man is a little republic unto himself

Nobody is more indoctrinated than the indoctrinator.

History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon?

Britain alone controlled almost a fifth of the world.

wealth is power" – not because wealth automatically gives its owner political power, but because it gives him or her control of other people's labour.

It led Smith to agree with Hobbes' phrase "wealth is power" – not because wealth automatically gives its owner political power, but because it gives him or her control of other people's labour.

When the angry jerking about and spitting stops, the serenity starts.

I can say pretty assuredly that most churches don't set out to control or hurt people. And most don't. But it does happen. Over time, churches can change and begin to place a higher value on their systems and programs than on the people they are called to serve.

What makes the difference between healthy and destructive organization is what you are organizing for. When the church decides to organize around controlling people, politics, and self-preservation, it eventually leads to unhealthy and restrictive organization.

Life isn't always fair. Learn to deal with it. You can't just go around hurting people every time you get angry. You need to consider how your actions affect others. Don't see threats where they don't exist. You need to know that controlling your anger does not make you a sissy.

I'm worried," I tell him. "This place seems out of control." Harvey says everything I'm describing about HubSpot is absolutely normal. "You know what the big secret of all these start-ups is?" he tells me. "The big secret is that nobody knows what they're doing. When it comes to management, it's amateur hour. They just make it up as they go along.

The company," he says, "doesn't need a reason to fire you. The company can do whatever it wants." A week later, on September 2, the Tuesday after the Labor Day weekend, Trotsky forwards me an email that Cranium has sent around to everyone in the marketing department. We're

Unless someone truly has the power to say no, they never truly have the power to say yes

Discipline is the art of making the right decision, even when it's the hard one.

I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible.

The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument... an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda.

Fear rules almost every newsroom in the country.

It no longer matters who consider themselves the masters of events. Events no longer obey their masters.

There are days when you wonder why these wretched old tatters of paper run my life. It's just leftover scraps from vanished lives, right? And they seem to control your every waking thought, all of your movements, even how you breathe, sometimes, with the fragile stuff. Your whole life. But then something comes along, a clue or sometimes the solution to a puzzle, and it sets you on fire!

Take off your boots, please." He set his feet apart and brought his hands to his hips. He let his gaze slide over her with deliberate slowness, not assessing this time, but going for a blatantly male vibe. He clearly couldn't believe he hadn't shut her up yet, and he was now switching to a different tactic. "What else do you want me to take off?

What anger wants, it buys at the price of soul.

Just so you know, the only thing keeping this dog from tearing you to pieces is me, so I suggest you stand still, very still, and tell me what I want to know.

Cleanliness, particularly personal cleanliness, was an assertion against madness. It was a declaration of control.