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Quotes About Control

Absolute power corrupts, and power corrupts absolutely
~ A J P Taylor
There's just something about letting a girl have her way with you.
~ A. C. Van Cherub
and powerful towards both the people and the state. He reaffirms the basic cause of 'our revolution', No taxation without representation; he insists that government revenue 'be kept under public control' and not be given over to the banks to speculate with; and he endorses President Jackson's saying 'No where so well deposited as in the pants of the people, | Wealth ain't'.
~ A. David Moody
An aristocracy often dictates, it rules as long as it is composed of the strongest elements i.e. as long as it maintains its sense of the present. One might almost say as long as it maintains its news sense. Both the communist party in Russia and the Fascist party in Italy are examples of aristocracy, active. They are the best, the pragmatical, the aware, the most thoughtful, the most wilful elements in their nations.
~ A. David Moody
Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
~ A. J. Liebling
Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.
~ A. J. Liebling
I stand corrected. Yours is a far superior arbitrary system of governance.
~ A. Lee Martinez
When a person feels powerless in regard to controlling his life, he can defend against the discomfort of such an experience by asserting control over someone else.
~ A. Nicholas Groth
That strong man you mentioned earlier? You're looking at one. And we not only go after what we want, we plan when the party will happen. And then we lead the dance.
~ A.C. Arthur
Communism is what happens when Socialists realize that they want complete control over every aspect of human life.
~ A.E. Samaan
Democratic Socialism devolves into totalitarian Socialism and eventually into full on Communism as people resist statism.
~ A.E. Samaan
Eugenics is not just a tool of totalitarianism. Eugenics, as it was conceived, could not be anything but totalitarian as it desired to control all aspects of society. Hitler's "National Socialist" (Nationalsozialist) form of government was amongst the first to put the full force of its government to conduct compulsory health initiatives. It is by no coincidence that the Dachau concentration camp used its slave-labor to run the largest organic produce farm of the era.
~ A.E. Samaan
Regulated rights are not rights. They are niceties and platitudes intended to keep the populace thinking their individual autonomy is respected by their government.
~ A.E. Samaan
Socialism is submission of the masochistic masses to the will of the sadistic elites.
~ A.E. Samaan
The desire to engineer humanity is a sign of a mind warped by megalomania and lust for power.
~ A.E. Samaan
The sadist desires to command and control. The masochist desires to be freed from the burdens of liberty. That is Socialism.
~ A.E. Samaan
A nation's not a child, for God's sake. ... It's like a wild horse you tame by breaking it. Or a fiery woman you slap till she sees sense and warms your bed.
~ A.J. Hartley and David Hewson
Serena had to cross her legs: in moments of dire amusement her bladder tended to play tricks.
~ A.P.
Compelled respect always implies fear.
~ A.S. Neill
Ta không có chút quy?n l?c nào v?i s? gi?n d? m?t khi ta ch?a bi?t lí do ?ích th?c c?a nó.
~ Émile Chartier
When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.
~ Émile Coué
Quand la volonté et l'imagination sont en lutte, c'est toujours l'imagination qui l'emporte, sans aucune exception
~ Émile Coué
Similarly, the more tyrants pillage, the more they crave, the more they ruin and destroy; the more one yields to them, and obeys them, by that much do they become mightier and more formidable, the readier to annihilate and destroy. But if not one thing is yielded to them, if, without any violence they are simply not obeyed, they become naked and undone and as nothing, just as, when the root receives no nourishment, the branch withers and dies.
~ Étienne de La Boétie
Celui qui vous maîtrise tant n'a que deux yeux, n'a que deux mains, n'a qu'un corps, et n'a autre chose que ce qu'a le moindre homme du grand et infini nombre de nos villes, sinon que l'avantage que vous lui faites pour vous détruire.
~ Étienne de La Boétie