Quotes About Control

Human beings will generally exercise power when they can get it, and they will exercise it most undoubtedly in popular governments under pretense of public safety.

Politics is activity in relation to power

The thing that gives you power also traps you.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Public education has served as a check on the power of parents, and this is another powerful reason for maintaining it.

It is hard for power to enjoy or incorporate humour and satire in its system of control.

Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work.

Your power ends where your fear begins.

The day I leave the power, inside my pockets will only be dust.

Control over change would seem to consist in moving not with it but ahead of it. Anticipation gives the power to deflect and control force.

We cannot remove the evils of capitalism without taking its source of power: ownership.

I am in charge. I take my own power back.

Power should be a check on power.

When the Communist Party comes to power, it acts a lot like the mafia: If you are a loyal member in good standing, everything is yours. You're protected, even if you commit a crime.

I believe very confidently in the truth of Scripture, where it says that there is no authority, no power given to man except as given by God.

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command.

Satan has no power over us except as we give it to him. God never forces us to do right, and Satan has no power to force us to do wrong.

The virtue of democracy is that is has placed limits on the absoluteness of power.

As I came to power peacefully, so shall I keep it.

Faith in a higher power helps us to control our mind and thoughts.

No one man should have all that power.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

It is not the source but the limitation of power which prevents it from being arbitrary.

The purpose behind terrorism is to instill fear in people - the fear that electrical power, for instance, will be taken away or the transportation system will be taken down.