Quotes About Control

We need to give them [the Justice Department] as much power as we can without eroding fundamental liberties.

Do you want power over something? Be more nearly real than it.

All your power is in your awareness of that power, and through holding that power in your consciousness.

Events of resistance have the power not only to escape control but also to create a new world.

If you have no fear, no one has power over you.

Power leads to more power, no matter what your racket, and not only were they rich and influential but they were smart as hell, too.

Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.

Preaching doom and gloom has been beneficial to the political class. They use it to gain more power and control.

In our political system, money is power. And that means a few can have a lot more power than the rest. That's bad news for everyone else - and for our democracy itself.

If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.

Plato compared the intellect to a charioteer guiding the powerful horses of the passions, i.e., he gave it both the power of perception and the power of control.

You gain or lose power according to the choices that you make.

Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.

I dread specialists in power because they are specialists speaking outside of their special subject.

If you ask the government to impose morality, then moral questions will be decided by whoever has the most political power.

All power rests on hierarchy: An army is nothing but a well-organized lynch mob.

Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others.

The power of taxing people and their property is essential to the very existence of government.

It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

The power to do things for people is also the power to do things to people.

These [NSA] programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power.

It is not the particular man in power that I oppose, but the power itself, which is unjust.

Tears and complaints - the means which I have called water power - can be an extremely useful weapon for disturbing cooperation and reducing other to a condition of slavery.