Quotes About Control

It's the most ambitious power grab I've ever witnessed.

My interest is in power. How power works.

Greater economic power will be in the hands of too few.

For domination has nothing whatsoever to do with good government, and power as an end in itself destroys good government.

All branches of our government today are controlled by individuals who use their power to undermine liberty and enhance the welfare/warfare state-and frequently their own wealth and power.

Liberals never, ever should be back in power. Never.

A bureaucrat is one who has the power to say "no" but none to say "yes."

I'd want to have the power of mind control. If I had that one skill you'd always see at the bank loading up bags full of cash.

The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.

If we live in a world where information drives what we do, the information we get becomes the most important thing. The person who chooses that information has power.

Sweetie, in our world, fair's got nothing to do with anything. He who has the greatest power wins. It's why we're all willing to kill each other off without flinching. (Solin)

If I had to say who is the number-one most powerful figure is in reality TV, it's very easy. It is the general public. They're the only people who have power now.

We possess nothing in the world - a mere chance can strip us of everything - except the power to say 'I.

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Know for certain that there is no power in the universe to injure us unless we first injure ourselves.

All power is His and within His command.

There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.

If this power could be used for good, it wouldn't be this power.

When liberty becomes license, some form of one-man power is not far distant.

The reputation of power IS power.

The clergy believe that any power confided in me will be exerted in opposition to their schemes, and they believe rightly.

A superintending power to maintain the Universe in its course and order.

... a thirst for power is the natural disease of monarchy.

It is from the power of taxation being in the hands of those who can throw so great a part of it from their own shoulders, that it has raged without a check.