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Quotes About Control

The basic principle, rarely violated, is that what conflicts with the requirements of power and privilege does not exist.
~ Noam Chomsky
This is class war on an international scale, and power is in the hands of those who control the international economic system.
~ Noam Chomsky
Take Google - I can use it, you can use it, anyone else can use it, but we all know its designed so that private power can influence significantly how you access it.
~ Noam Chomsky
Sectors of power are not going to favor the flourishing of dissidence.
~ Noam Chomsky
The operations of the human mind are also controlled by words of power, formulas that become a focus of mental activity.
~ Northrop Frye
Sometimes when we're in situations where we feel we're not in control, we do things, especially things that take a lot of energy, as a way of making ourselves feel we have some power.
~ Patricia McCormick
As long as we're here, we are the occupying power. It's a very ugly word, but it's true.
~ Paul Bremer
Opus Dei is an efficient machine run to achieve world power.
~ Penny Lernoux
Running from fear only strengthens fear-you are demonstrating that fear has power over you. Fear must be faced and gone through.
~ Peter McWilliams
Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.
~ Philip Yancey
Be it only for a day, it is still a glory without equal to be master of the world just that day.
~ Pierre Corneille
The king, just and prudent, wants only those things which he can get.
~ Pierre Corneille
I am master of myself as of the universe, so I am; so I wish to be.
~ Pierre Corneille
He can do most who has most power.
~ Plautus
I never wanted to give up my power. I wanted to be able to make my own decisions, so that's why I became involved in management, bottom line.
~ Queen Latifah
God is so angry. All that power, and so mean with it.
~ Quentin Crisp
Simply put, the direct power over the money supply is the indirect power over the people.
~ Orrin Woodward
The desire to rule over others, the will to power, is one of the greatest crimes that man has committed.
~ Rajneesh
You think me the child of circumstance; I make my circumstance.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm scared of people with power making the decision.
~ Ray Dalio
Power never turns power down, ever, unless institutionally demanded.
~ Richard Dreyfuss
He soon recognized the fact that the stimulus proceeded from the idea to be in the power of a woman rather than from the act of violence itself.
~ Richard von Krafft-Ebing
This is politics. People in power never have to play by the same rules.
~ Richelle Mead
Words are the source of all power. And names are more than just a collection of letters.
~ Rick Riordan