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Quotes About Control

You can limit the number of invitations to an in-person fashion show, but you can't police the Internet.
~ Erin McKean
One doesn't want one's democracy to behave like a dictatorial or fascistic police. One doesn't.
~ Tom Stoppard
Serial killers kill for the power and control they experience during the murders and for the added ego boost they get in the aftermath from community fears, media coverage, and the police investigations.
~ Pat Brown
Natalie's estate is handled by Global Icons, and they police the world so her picture isn't on a T-shirt or coffee cup unless we approve of it.
~ Robert Wagner
Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.
~ Karl Kraus
I think that when we start thought-policing people and idea-policing people, then that's crossing a line. And I think, you know, everybody's so afraid of this imaginary line of thought police that they forget their own personal safety.
~ Ashton Kutcher
The police officer's job is to respect the citizens that they are in control of.
~ Benjamin Watson
Every individual who has worked for Blackwater in Iraq has previously served in the U.S. military or as a police officer. Many were highly decorated. And from the beginning, these individuals have been bound by detailed contracts that ensure intensive government direction and control.
~ Erik Prince
I know L.A. well, but it's a police state.
~ Morrissey
I'd never been in a police state. I didn't know what it was. I knew that it was, in the general way that people know that two and two is four, but it had no emotional value for me until I found myself in the middle of it.
~ Alan Furst
There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
We need to take responsibility for all digital-related policies in one agency.
~ Yoshihide Suga
We think the government is running the country, but it is just a policymaker. Unknowingly, people are inviting the government to run their lives. The only business of the government is to come up with the right policies.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
There has to be a readjustment of resources that is being diverted to police and policing as opposed to community health services, and there certainly has to be control over the police by the communities that they are supposed to protect and serve.
~ Alicia Garza
The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.
~ Aaron McGruder
So just as I want pilots on the planes that I fly, when it comes to monetary policy, I want to think that there is someone with sound judgement at the controls.
~ Martin Feldstein
Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences.
~ C. L. R. James
Political correctness is evil.
~ Jesse Lee Peterson
India has a law. The political parties or the religious heads have no right to control that law.
~ Mohanlal
There's one political party in this country, and that's the corporate party.
~ John Hall
It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.
~ Jose Saramago
I never had a political power base.
~ Ariel Sharon
If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.
~ Barbara Kruger
Long Island is shaped the way it is largely because of Robert Moses. Long Island is a perfect example of how political power shapes people's lives every day.
~ Robert Caro