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Quotes About Control

The mind will enchain yourself, others or both. Your heart will set you / them free
~ Rasheed Ogunlaru
Probably more than half of the people who go into psychology do so because they need help. I think it's their way of feeling that they have control.
~ Laura Schlessinger
My worst habit in the kitchen is not allowing anybody to help me. I like to cook by myself.
~ Eva Longoria
Organizing your emotions reclaims your power over any given drama. Nothing is stronger than your own mind.
~ Jennifer Elisabeth
Fate can not be proven or disproven so act knowing that destiny is a product of your every thought and every action.
~ Matthew Donnelly
Wouldn't it help Americans more, in the long run, if we were forced to accept some responsibility for the environmental wreckage we prefer to assume is totally out of our control?
~ Jane Velez-Mitchell
Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death.
~ Adolf Hitler
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
~ George Orwell
If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.
~ Karl Marx
History is written by those who win and those who dominate.
~ Edward Said
Keep people from their history, and they are easily controlled.
~ Karl Marx
The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
~ Stanley Kubrick
Every bullet fired from the barrel of a police pistol was my bullet. If you call that murder, then I am the murderer.
~ Hermann Goring
If two irreconcilable elements are struggling with each other, the solution lies in force. There has never been any other solution in history, and there never will be.
~ Benito Mussolini
Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.
~ Maynard James Keenan
Obviously I prefer freedom, but I know, and I think all history has told us, that freedom cannot flow from anarchy and disorder.
~ Pierre Trudeau
George Orwell said, "Whoever controls the past controls the future," by which he meant that history is incredibly important in shaping the world view of the next generation of people.
~ Howard Zinn
From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned.
~ George Orwell
History is written by the victors.
~ WALTER BENJAMIN
Call me an alarmist, but we are witnessing the beginning of the most frightening period of government tyranny in our nation's history.
~ David Limbaugh
I think perhaps of all the things a police state can do to its citizens, distorting history is possibly the most pernicious.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
At no point in history have so many non-risk-takers, that is, those with no personal exposure, exerted so much control.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
History, in other words, is just a device to be used by well-paid boobherds to drive the American cattle in bovine content to their pastures or to the abattoir.
~ Revilo P. Oliver