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Quotes About Control

The unsuccessful bully can always become the father of a family.
~ Rebecca West
The Red Comyns had always done well behind the throne. The king was but an instrument, as his father used to say. They were the musicians.
~ Robyn Young
Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.
~ Albert Einstein
Let them hate me, so long as they fear me.
~ Caligula
"Nothing binds you except your thoughts; nothing limits you except your fear; and nothing controls you except your beliefs.
~ Marianne Williamson
There is nothing more to controlling demons than to do good and fear nothing.
~ Éliphas Lévi
Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out of our hearts.
~ Thomas Aquinas
I've learned what I can control is whether I am going to live a day in fear and depression and panic, or whether I am going to attack the day and make it as good a day, as wonderful a day, as I can.
~ Gilda Radner
I have built my organization upon fear.
~ Al Capone
Fear arises when we imagine that everything depends on us.
~ Elisabeth Elliot
The fear of death is the beginning of slavery.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
Everybody has fear. The difference is that the coward does not control fear and the brave... gets over it.
~ Rickson Gracie
We should master fear, instead of cultivating it.
~ Mary Baker Eddy
What happens when you accept and embrace your fear? Fear becomes your weapon.
~ Georges St-Pierre
Any organization created out of fear must create fear to survive.
~ Bill Hicks
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.
~ Mark Twain
I scorn their hatred, if they do but fear me
~ Caligula
What does censorship reveal? It reveals fear.
~ Julian Assange
Pitching is the art of instilling fear.
~ Sandy Koufax
The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot - and it's only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. That is how it works in a democratic system and mass fear becomes the ticket to destroy rights across the board.
~ James Bovard
My greatest fear in life is standing before the Lord and hearing Him say, 'I had so much more for you, but you held on too tightly.'
~ Larry Burkett
And loss of control is always the source of fear. It is also, however, always the source of change.
~ James Frey
I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and work from there.
~ Shirley Jackson