Quotes About Control

I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.

Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built.

Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty.

Fear usually looks like anger.

Fear is a tyrant and a despot, more terrible than the rack, more potent than the snake.

Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.

Who said anything about slicing you up? ... I just wanted to carve a little Z on your forehead-- nothing serious.

When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?

If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains.

Fear is really powerful; it's really useful to me.

If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid.

Follow the accident, fear the fixed plan--that is the rule.

A true gangster can smell out a person's strenghts and weaknesses in a matter of minutes, but what they can sense most of all, what their bodies are most attuned to, is the scent of fear.

Omnipotence is bought with ceaseless fear.

Fear is a weapon of mass destruction.

Excessive fear is always powerless.

The true, unacknowledged purpose of capital punishment is to inspire fear and awe -- fear and awe of the State.

there is every reason to fear that the State is growing ever more powerful, more autonomous, more indifferent to its own inhabitants.

Who is all-powerful should fear everything.

An [officer] is still a human being. When that fear kicks in, you never know what can happen.

I really believed that the priests were acquainted with my thoughts; and often stood in great awe of them. They often told me they had power to strike me dead at any moment.

Censorship is the commonest social blasphemy because it is mostly concealed, built into us by indolence, self-interest and cowardice.

[A]lways keep a-hold of Nurse For fear of finding something worse

Our problem is not to be rid of fear but rather to harness and master it.