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Quotes About Control

To let the child do as he likes when he has not yet developed any powers of control is to betray the idea of freedom.
~ Maria Montessori
In todays uncertain economy, the safest solution to be wealthy, be in total control and enjoy freedom for you and your family is to have multiple streams of income.
~ Robert G. Allen
I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.
~ Brian Eno
The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people.
~ John Stuart Mill
Collectivism and freedom are mortal enemies. Only one will survive
~ G. Edward Griffin
The only freedom supposed to be left to the masses is that of grazing on the ration of simulacra the system distributes to each individual.
~ Michel De Certeau
Between stimulus and response is the freedom to choose.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
Freedom has ceased to be a birthright; it has come to mean whatever we are still permitted to do.
~ Joseph Sobran
What is freedom? There is no such thing as absolute freedom!
~ Benito Mussolini
Discipline without freedom is tyranny; freedom without discipline is chaos.
~ Cullen Hightower
In a land of freedom we are held hostage by the tyranny of political correctness.
~ Robert Griffin III
Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.
~ Adolf Hitler
Put your hands where I can see 'em, so they look like 12 PM On the dot, see this Glock? Don't make me give these shells freedom.
~ Unknown
Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for -- liberation.
~ Martha Graham
When we give way to joy, we do not feel that we have lost control, but gained freedom.
~ Jane Roberts
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy; the best weapon of a democracy is openness.
~ Edward Teller
Make no mistake - they're coming for our guns. And we freedom-loving gun lovers are totally defenseless! Other than, you know, the guns.
~ Stephen Colbert
Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic.
~ Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.
~ Unknown
Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigorously, more vigorously, and more severely, than by one.
~ Andrew Johnson
The tyrant claims freedom to kill freedom, and yet keep it for himself.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.
~ Frank Herbert
The desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom.
~ Margaret Thatcher
When your response to everything that is wrong with the world is to say, 'there ought to be a law,' you are saying that you hold freedom very cheap.
~ Thomas Sowell