Quotes About Control

You see, money to you means freedom; to me it means bondage.

The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.

The TSA must think we're mushrooms. You know, the way they are trying to keep us in the dark, and the way they keep feeding us a fertilizing agent that comes from the south end of a north-bound cow.

As if one could do what one wanted with one's own body!

History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability, anarchy, and confusion. So there can be a moral counter-revolution.

The military world is characterized by the absence of freedom - in other words, a rigorous discipline-enforced inactivity, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery and drunkenness.

Better freedom with a crust, than slavery with every luxury.

If dictatorship is the concentration of power, freedom consists in its diffusion.

Those who lack the capacity to achieve much in an atmosphere of freedom will clamor for power.

It is easier to rule others than to keep from being ruled oneself.

Freedom is within oneself. But to get beyond the thoughts and desires requires power.

It is hard to have a Southern overseer; it is worse to have a Northern one; but worst of all when you are yourself the slave-driver.

The dead hand has too long hampered the freedom of the living.

Mastery is proven only in limitation, and law alone can give us freedom.

I'm not a big fan of regulation: anyone who likes freedom of the press can't be.

Small tyrants, threatened by big, sincerely believethey love liberty.

Too many things can be free in this world, but freedom is never among them.

Family ownership provides the independence that is sometimes required to withstand governmental pressure and preserve freedom of the press.

I don't think that technology is going to allow for greater subjugation of people. I think it's gonna give them more freedom.

Guests can be, and often are, delightful, but they should never be allowed to get the upper hand.

There ought to be a law about you coming around.

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

In Russia we only had two TV channels. Channel One was propaganda. Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: Turn back at once to Channel One.

Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.