Quotes About Control

all history shows that the hand that cradles the rock has ruled the world, not the hand that rocks the cradle!

Artists are part of the information process... Visual history is important in providing a record of what is going on - levels of intention, levels of confidence, levels of aggression or control.

The struggle between centralization and decentralization is at the core of American history.

In prison we are their jailers On trial their judges Persecuted their punishers Dead their conquerors

Not only is history written by the winners, it is also made by them.

For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.

Summation of Leviathan: "The axiom, fear; the method, logic; the conclusion, despotism."

It is the winners who write history - their way.

In past history popularly elected governments have been no better and sometimes far worse than overt tyrannies.

The Pentagon is, admissibly, the most powerful institution in history.

The past has always been the handmaid of authority.

A new chapter in the history of international politics has begun, one in which the pursuit and control of energy resources would be the central dynamic of world affairs, and governments.

In history there are no control groups. There is no one to tell us what might have been. We weep over the might have been, but there is no might have been. There never was.

I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.

The state is and has been in history a source of disorder and chaos, and this problem gets worse the more the state grows.

The history of government regulation of food safety is one of government watchdogs chasing the horse after it's out of the barn.

Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit. This is the fine point on which all legal professions of history have based their job security.

The real violence is committed in the writing of history, the records of the legal system, the reporting of news, through the manipulation of social contracts, and the control of information.

History is the propaganda of the victors.

If the present is any guide, government-sanctioned, counterfeit history is in your future.

Throughout history the leaders of the countries have been very particular about what songs should be sung. We know the power of songs.

The greatness of America has grown out of a political and social system and a method of control of economic forces distinctly its own - our American system.

History can be a weapon, and it can be used against you.

History goes out of control almost as often as nature does.