Quotes About Control

Never define people or situations in terms of their effect on you, unless you want to give them the power to make you feel that way.

No matter who you vote for, the government stays in power

Nothing is more arrogant than the weakness which feels itself supported by power.

Law in the United States is at once a powerful medium and a medium for power.

I have plumbed the depth of human cowardice and I realized that there is only one way to be right, and that is to be in power.

Still less let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own.

What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

Anyone who said power was not addictive had never really experienced it.

The dominant factors affecting control valuations are earning power (past and prospective) and asset values.

Legitimacy is the elixir of political power.

We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Whoever can do as he pleases, commands when he entreats.

When we lack integrity, we use power to control. When we lead with integrity, we use power to bless.

I've never been disappointed, because I've never given somebody I liked that much power.

What is American strategy first of all? So American strategy is to command the seas, right? The foundation of our power is sea control. Nobody can invade us, but we can invade them.

The only power our problems can have over us is the power we give to them.

To come under siege was the inevitable fate of power.

Your imaginings can have as much power over you as your reality, or even more.

The power of thought is extremely powerful.

When we talk about power, we talk about Wall Street.

Concentrated political power is the most dangerous thing on earth.

Think What You Do When You Run in Debt: You Give to Another Power over Your Liberty

All forms of power - even based on the consensus of the democratic system - react when they are being attacked, or when those who exercise power become a target.

Liberty is not just an idea, an abstract principle. It is power, effective power to do specific things. There is no such thing as liberty in general; liberty, so to speak, at large.