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Quotes About Control

Fear is the most elegant weapon, your hands are never messy
~ Jenny Holzer
Social control is best managed through fear.
~ Michael Crichton
Fear is the passion of slaves.
~ Patrick Henry
Succeed in not fearing the lion, and the lion will fear you.
~ Éliphas Lévi
The taste for worst-case scenarios reflects the need to master fear of what is felt to be uncontrollable. It also expresses an imaginative complicity with disaster.
~ Susan Sontag
The only thing we have to fear on this planet is man.
~ Carl Jung
There is nothing to fear other than my mind.
~ Shantideva
When perfectionism is driving us, shame is riding shotgun and fear is that annoying backseat driver!
~ Brene Brown
There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.
~ Aeschylus
I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
~ Erica Jong
I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.
~ Javier Bardem
When you say or do anything to please, get, keep, influence, or control anyone or anything, fear is the cause and pain is the result.
~ Byron Katie
A king who feared wasps once decreed that they were abolished. As it happened, they did him no harm. But he was eventually stung to death by scorpions.
~ Idries Shah
Courage has to do with controlling fear and it seems to me that focus has a way of overcoming anxiety.
~ Tommy Franks
The covetous person is full of fear; and he or she who lives in fear will ever be a slave.
~ Horace
We lend power to the things we fear!
~ Orison Swett Marden
Fear is the mind-killer.
~ Frank Herbert, Dune
Fear makes you docile.
~ Neil Strauss
FEAR IS THE MIND-KILLER. FEAR IS THE LITTLE-DEATH THAT BRINGS TOTAL OBLITERATION.
~ Frank Herbert
Fear is secured by a dread of punishment.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
You have to do what you fear, otherwise fear is in charge.
~ Glenn Ford
Bureaucracies are progressive. meaning they have a burning fear that someone. somewhere, is doing something without permission.
~ Jerry Pournelle
I don't say that I never feel fear before a performance, but I have learned to channel it.
~ Claudio Arrau
Fear owns me because I let it. Because I obsess over it, name it, raise it, and nurture it to become perfect. It is one of the few things in my life that I can control.
~ Pete Wentz, Gray