Quotes About Control

It means that, in fact, it's - whether fascist is the right word I don't know - more of a plutocracy than anything resembling a democracy; it has become a nation controlled by a very small, very wealthy elite.

A lot of people are deeply dissatisfied by the diminishing control they have over their lives, because of the way our system of government is set up, to cater to the powerful, cater to the wealthy, cater to the corporations, and not to the individual American citizen.

I don't think most people are aware of the exotic and extreme tools at the disposal of the most powerful and wealthy men of America when they are bent at silencing accusations against them.

In short, Republicans under Trump have finally destroyed the New Deal, turning the government over to a small cadre of wealthy businessmen, unhampered, to run the country as they see fit.

Your mind is the most powerful weapon you have.

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

The press is our chief ideological weapon.

The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.

Any tool is a weapon if you hold it right.

We have a safe and good command-and-control system. Nobody can take away any nuclear weapon from Pakistan.

Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.

Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.

You don't need a lot of credentials to be prison guard in a federal prison. And, you know, you give them a set of keys and a weapon, and they're in power.

Food is a weapon in austerity Britain. Hunger, the threat of and the reality of, is used to coerce and control.

I hate it when people use sex as a weapon against the people who are engaging in it. It's so hypocritical.

I feel like when you have an unauthorized police badge and something that looks like it could be a concealed weapon in the small of your back that when you, someone crosses you, pisses you off, road rage, I think just the slight badge and the little moving away of the jacket and not losing eye contact does amazing things.

Proprietary programming like news can be a great weapon.

The euro is not a currency. It is a political weapon to force countries to implement the policies decided by the E.U. and keep them on a leash.

Food is a weapon - a very effective weapon. People don't cultivate, don't farm, you cut the road off, then you subjugate them very easily.

There's no reason anyone needs to have an assault weapon.

There is no reason for anybody to have an assault weapon.

The Internet definitely could be a weapon of mass destruction - it's not going to come in a bomb, it's going to come as a cyberattack. It's pretty amazing to see what a small group of people can do if they really know how to control the universe.