Quotes About Control

Fundamentalism isn't about religion, it's about power.

If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

The Autocrat of Russia possesses more power than any other man in the earth; but he cannot stop a sneeze.

Nobody is going to delegate a lot of power to a secretary that they can't control.

If you have no power, talk about your influence. If you have power, talk about the constraints that hem you in.

[On Nijinksy:] Ah, he took my breath away! The body that man had, the controlled power, the iron fragility. He was a note of music. He was dance!

Hatred and sorrow are power. They are yours to control. All you have to do is turn them into strength, and use that strength to move forward.

Power lacks moral or principles. It only has interests.

Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

Power never takes two weeks off. Power takes long weekends.

Never mistake the power of influence

The present is the point of power.

Have others fear you, and I will have no fear.

The efficiency of a truly national leader consists primarily in preventing the division of the attention of a people, and always in concentrating it on a single enemy.

Appearance is a type of power.

Power, carried to extremes, is always liable to reaction.

The hardest thing I have done is given up power.

One precedent in favor of power is stronger than a hundred against it.

We can only be what we give ourselves the power to be.

Evil has only the power we give it.

Eventually, we can get to a system where an electric company will be able to hold back some of the power so that maybe your air conditioner won't operate at its peak.

The desire for power feeds off itself, growing as it devours.

Don't give up your power.

I'm interested, I suppose, in tortured power.