Quotes About Control

Order marches with weighty and measured strides; disorder is always in a hurry.

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.

Do you know what amazes me more than anything else? The impotence of force to organize anything.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping the common people quiet.

There are two levers for moving men interest and fear.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances

When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes. Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets..

I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay hands on everything they can get.

When you have an enemy in your power, deprive him of the means of ever injuring you.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

You don't govern men who don't have religion, you shoot them.

The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.

You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be.

Power is founded upon opinion.

In contrast, fear societies are societies in which dissent is banned.

Money, like emotions, is something you must control to keep your life on the right track.

Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.

The situation of a man in the midst of a crowd, yet as completely in the power of another, life and all, as if they two were in the deepest solitude.

How swiftly fate can make or unmake kings.

The message was: disorder always won in the end. The idea that man could order the world to his own design was the most pitiful fairy tale ever told.