Quotes About Control

Be master of your own fate and captain of self worth.

Fear is a manifested lie, created by you influenced by others beliefs. Fear doesn't exist because it is an illusion. Fear is a lie which is created to make you think that you're not worth more than you actually are. Fear is a lie enforced to control and make you tremble. Fear was made for superiority gain.

I'm not afraid to die. What I'm afraid of is having reality get the better of me, of having reality leave me behind.

When you play a game of thrones you win or you die. - Cersei Lannister

In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.

I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some bline, random disaster, or some sudden disease, the addict has the comfort of knowing what will most likely wait for him down the road. He's taken some control over his ultimate fate, and his addiction keeps the cause of death from being a total surprise.

What did the traffic light say to the car? Don't look, I'm changing!

If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.

Everyone has favorite criminals. Mine are pimps. We can all rob a bank; we can all sell drugs. Being a pimp is a whole other thing.

Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

Well, if you're suspecting your lover is having an affair, it's definitely devastating. It's really a terrible, terrible feeling because you have no control.

If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

I have a fantastic relationship with money. I use it to buy my freedom.

When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty.

If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free

The only kind of freedom that the mob can imagine is freedom to annoy and oppress its betters, and that is precisely the kind that we mainly have

Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

Freedom is coming to mean little more than the right to ask permission

We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.

Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.