Quotes About Control

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Power is paradoxical.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.

What do I care about law? Ain't I got the power?

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Biology always beats will power.

There's a lot more power in calm than in vituperation.

Darkness is good. Dick Cheney. Darth Vader. Satan. That's power.

The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.

To have command is to have all the power you will ever need. To have all the power you will ever need, is to have the world in the palm of you hand.

Anyone who seeks power wants absolute power.

Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will.

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

Fear is a powerful beast. But we can learn to ride it.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.

I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.

The media is so powerful.

I've never felt that anger is a very powerful emotion.

When you meet powerful men or just read about them in the newspapers, you see that they don't have a sense of boundaries.