Quotes About Control

Silence dies, clamor takes the power everywhere

During any dance to which we surrender with joy, the brain loses it's controlling power, and the heart takes up the reins of the body.

I say 'Out' to every negative thought that comes to my mind. No person, place, or thing has any power over me, for I am the only thinker in my mind. I create my own reality and everyone in it.

To entrust the government with the power of determining the education which our children receive is entrusting our servant with the power to be our master.

Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched to their home today.

Extensive powers not exercised as far as was necessary have, I believe, scarcely ever failed to ruin the possessor.

I don't know how you can do it, if you don't recognition the media as a power center in America.

The world is a dangerous, unstable place and sometimes there are casualties and struggles for power.

The spell of power never quite releases its hold.

You know, if you think about it, the most powerful people on this earth probably never raise their voices - they just say it and people hop to, because they have that power.

Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

Well, I'm not involved in polemics. I never wanted to have any position of power, and I don't have it.

The government has granted itself power it is not entitled to. There is no public oversight. The result is people like myself have the latitude to go further than they are allowed to.

And the biggest, coldest power play of all in Obamacare came at the expense of the elderly.

Fear only become powerful when you give it your power.

We all want to be guilty, because guilt is power.

It is a common happening that those in power, as their tenure of office continues, find themselves less and less able to contemplate relinquishing it.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

Those who do not wish to kill any one, wish they had the power. [Lat., Et qui nolunt occidere quemquam Posse volunt.]

For imagining lies within our power whenever we wish . . . but in forming opinons we are not free . . .

Without any doubt, I am striving for power.

The only power an actor has is the ability to say "no."

I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power, control, sexuality and race.

No doubt that the U.S. is a super-power capable of conquering a relatively small country, but is it able to control it?