Quotes About Control

Belief is such a powerful thing - but because it is, it can also be very destructive and it's very easily manipulated.

It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one.

Powerful people are always in charge. You have to acknowledge that and deal with it as a reality. They're not devils. They're not monsters. They're human beings, like us, that have their share of insecurities and fears. You have to contemplate that as you go through life.

When you label so much of what happens to you as 'bad,' it reinforces the feeling that you are a powerless pawn at the mercy of outside forces over which you have no control. And - this is key - labeling something a bad thing almost guarantees that you'll experience it as such.

I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless.

So much of 'Mudbound' is about man's relationship to the land and to the elements. It's about the desire for control and how powerless we are against nature. We always knew we would shoot widescreen as a means to isolate a body in the frame and to highlight our own insignificance.

An administration without a police executive is powerless and there were many proofs of this.

If there's something I hate the most, it's feeling helpless, powerless.

The office of the president is the most powerful in the world. It is also, at times, the most powerless.

Humans are powerless, and even in our exercise of free will, either the Universe is gonna get down with your plan, or it isn't.

There's nothing more dangerous than a powerful person who is imagining themselves as being powerless.

You feel kind of powerless as a kid, so I wanted to create a world where the kid actually gets some power.

To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.

The gatekeepers don't control the gates, and the powers that be aren't as powerful.

Schools still operate as if all knowledge is contained in books, and as if the salient points in books must be stored in each human brain - to be used when needed. The political and financial powers controlling schools decide what these salient points are.

I don't think the federal government should be involved in making life work, right? I mean, the enumerated powers - the state level is fine. The local level's fine. But not - I do not want the federal government trying to make my life work.

The romance that can never really gel because of the powers that be... that's a great conflict.

We know that's the bottom line: if money is made, the powers that be pay attention.

Any government, that is its own judge of, and determines authoritatively for the people, what are its own powers over the people, is an absolute government of course. It has all the powers that it chooses to exercise. There is no other or at least no more accurate definition of a despotism than this.

War expands government powers. The trouble is that, when the war goes away, the government powers do not.

As anyone familiar with my scholarship knows, I am not a huge fan of inherent powers in most contexts.

With great powers come great responsibilities; with plenary powers come plenary responsibilities.

My hope is that we revive 'monopoly' as a core piece of political rhetoric that broadly denotes dominant firms with pernicious powers.

We practically own everything in the Philippines.