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Quotes About Control

Fear invites aggression - do not show it to a predator.
~ Brian Herbert
In the world order, if the nagual dominates and not the tonal, then we'll live in times of fear and superstition.
~ Frederick Lenz
If fear grows fat on the energy you feed it, you have to talk it down.
~ Scilla Elworthy
Whenever there's chaos, there's ambiguity, and where there's ambiguity, there's fear. And fear gets manipulated.
~ Robert Redford
Desire urges me on as fear bridles me" Bruno.
~ Deborah Harkness
What you fear most will happen to you - that is the law.
~ Shirley Hazzard
He that feareth is a slave, were he never so rich, were he never so powerful. But he that is without fear is king of all the world.
~ Eric Rucker Eddison
Listen to your fear but don't obey it.
~ Seth Godin
Who sows fear, reaps weapons.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
I think sometimes my controlling instincts came out of a fear of other people.
~ Gary Kemp
People are kept in line in society because they fear punishment. The assumption that underlies this mentality is that a human being will follow their desires without mitigation.
~ Frederick Lenz
Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.
~ Jack Dee
This is not a democracy," I said, understanding he fear but unable to do anything about it. "It's a Maxocracy.
~ James Patterson
The fear is that we'll move in the direction from being a democracy to an oligarchy.
~ Jane Mayer
My biggest fear had always been getting hurt, and not being able to leave the game as a player on my own terms.
~ Jason Kidd
So we are being systematically trained to fear this false 'rising crime' tide. This is all part of a system to lock up more people, and impose more control and surveillance.
~ Jerry Brown
Fear is an effective factor in altering behavior.
~ Jerry Vlasak
No power so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
~ Edmund Burke
No passion so effectively robs the mind of its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
~ Edmund Burke
He who fears something gives it power over him.
~ Moorish proverb
All fear is bondage.
~ Anonymous
Pitching is the art of instilling fear by making a man flinch.
~ Sandy Koufax
Fear can be headier than whiskey once man has acquired a taste for it.
~ Donald Dowes
One must feel fear without allowing fear to control.
~ Unknown