Quotes About Control

A person either disciplines his finances or his finances disciplines him.

New Golden Rule of Fractional Reserve Banking: He who creates the "fool's gold" controls the fools.

Power in society is achieved through control of the purse, pen, and politics.

Access to unlimited funds by a government, not surprisingly, leads to an unlimited government.

God is not against you owning things, but he is against the things owning you.

Evil people naturally assume that you will use that power exactly as they would use it.

If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side.

Money only buys the illusion of power. Real power is in the force of will will strong enough that others bend to it for its own sake, and follow it willingly. Power that is won through deception will evaporate under the hot light of truth.

I merely observe that all living things are manipulated. As long as there is a will, it is bent and twisted constantly. Only the dead are allowed the luxury of freedom, and then only because they want nothing, and therefore can't be thwarted.

A policeman's job is only easy in a police state.

Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.

The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic, partly due to the irregularity of the air, and partly to lack of experience in handling this machine. The control of the front rudder was difficult on account of its being balanced too near the center.

It is heaven that rules.

In his famous novel 1984, O'Brien states frankly, "The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. . . . The object of power is power.

Your security does not lie in the hands of Kerry, Bush or al-Qaeda. Your security is in your own hands.

Regardless of the cause, those in charge always seemed to be seeking power and glory for themselves.

A leader pompously voices his own views without the least hesitation. Do as I say, he proclaims. Then you, as well as your family and your village and your country and the whole world too will be secure. Gesturing grandly, he roars on about how disaster will come from ignoring him. But then, as has happened time after time, his favorite prostitute gives him the cold shoulder, and this makes him cry out desperately for the abolition of her kind.

That one's a wife, he began, and she knows only two ways to live—either she's the husband's boss or else his toy.

A man is a puppet in the hands of time and change.

Just because you're changing doesn't mean you're not in control of the person you become.

Power without morality leads to abuse, and freedom without morality leads to depravity.

There's plenty of repressive communist regimes left over from the cold war, but there's plenty out there that don't really regulate their enterprise.

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

Authority is quite degrading