Quotes About Control

I know of no power, indeed, of which a free people ought to be more jealous, than of that of levying taxes and duties.

The more power that we have, the less human we are.

Television has tremendous power over our lives.

My father was a Little League dictator. That really affected me, his control-freakery, his impunity, his arbitrary unreasonable power.

No power was total, no power permanent, no power absolute.

Power is neither good nor evil.

You have the power to let power go

If he were any other man, I might have suspected him of substance abuse, of being coked up or something. But Barrons was too much a purist for that; his drugs were money, power, and control

Every revolution begins with the power of an idea and ends when clinging to power is the only idea left.

I'm a power fanatic. I like to own things, and have them be mine. Acting doesn't belong to you, if you're not the writer or the director.

One of the best signs of being fitted for power is reluctance to hold it.

Always remember, with a strong enough will, even the weak can wield great power.

I have come to think of violence as a self-perpetuating mania of the power of the aggressive over those less strong.

People like Elizabeth Dole have given too much power to the special interests.

An actor has power, and their power is very simple: it's the power to say no.

Justice is God's control over the order of the universe. Mercy is God's power even over the order of the universe.

The program director at a radio station, by the way, is not the superstar. If he was a superstar, he'd be out creating songs, but he's not. But he wants to act like he has control and power.

Money equals power; power makes the law; and law makes government.

What a horrifying notion," he said. "A creature with the power to take over one's mind.

Blaming something else makes that something else cause; and as that cause takes on power, the individual in the same act loses control and becomes effect.

In a democracy, power is not permanent.

What matters most is recognition that 'I have my own will. I have my own agency. I have the power within myself to control what I do.'

Power calls to those who are hungry for power, and there are hungry idiots everywhere.

In order to obtain and hold power a man must love it. Thus the effort to get it is not likely to be coupled with goodness, but with the opposite qualities of pride, craft and cruelty.