Quotes About Control

To tell a story is to take power over it.

Power is like prostitution and it could have pleasure for a while but it has to go to another man

The corporate government is heavily influenced by the utility company cartel.

Power and control are an illusion, all we have are the relationship of measured things and incomplete descriptions.

We have little power to choose what happens, but we have complete power over how we respond.

The world we are is a secret prison and the secret prison is power.

No. I cannot let him control me.You are mine, Adelina, Enzo growls. Turn your powers against your own fleet.

Those who want to power know no mercy.

Religion was a means to an end. She had seen it wielded as a weapon. If she needed to use it, she would, but she would never allow herself to be used by it.

We have the power to bend all men to our whim, but are forever pushing ourselves further, trying to fly higher… and falling.

Power is never taken fr, om us, it is, only given away

Power is a curious thing. Who lives, Who dies. Power resides where men believe it resides. It is a trick, A shadow on the wall.

What insanity would lead me to believe that I possess the power, much less the aptitude to manipulate all of the consequences out of all of my decisions?

Power will always attract the greedy and the weak.

Handling power is very much like handling explosives, you have to have a great deal of respect for it and most people don't.

How foolish to believe we are more powerful than the sea or the sky.

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely

A man who does not like power will suffer from its cruelty.

You have to realize that modern power, is nothing but a concept in the mind of the one who's under the power. And once you realize this, you realize that authority is indeed an illusion.

Power in society is achieved through control of the purse, pen, and politics.

Take your desires for reality!" can be understood as the ultimate slogan of power.

Dune was a world of paradox now—a world under siege, yet the center of power. To come under siege, he decided, was the inevitable fate of power.

The obstinacy on which power is based is never so fragile as in the moment of its triumph.

And what does it mean to take care of power? Do you use it? Conserve it? Keep it out of the wrong hands?