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Quotes About Control

It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
~ Douglas Adams
A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
~ George Savile
I don't care who does the electing, so long as I get to do the nominating.
~ Boss Tweed
He who angers you conquers you.
~ Elizabeth Kenny
No one knows what the future holds, except the One Who holds the future!
~ Eric Metaxas
There is no 'us' and 'them'; it's an illusion. We are all human beings, and we all have a responsibility to support one another and to discover ways of wresting the power from the very, very few people who control all the cash and all the property.
~ Roger Waters
He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.
~ Frank Herbert
People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
~ Thomas Sowell
My relationship with my body has changed. I used to consider it as a servant who should obey, function, give pleasure. In sickness, you realise that you are not the boss. It is the other way around.
~ Federico Fellini
He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.
~ James A. Garfield
The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
~ Thomas Sowell
It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.
~ Joseph Stalin
If the Loki in 'Thor' was about a spiritual confusion - 'Who am I? How do I belong in this world?' - the Loki in 'Avengers' is, 'I know exactly who I am, and I'm going to make this world belong to me.'
~ Tom Hiddleston
My wife says I have a frontal lobe issue. Your frontal lobe controls your danger response, like, 'Whoa, I shouldn't be doing this.'
~ Armie Hammer
Whoever is new to power is always harsh.
~ Aeschylus
Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.
~ Allen Ginsberg
Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Some day we're gonna have interactive television where you can pick the shot that you want. You can watch defense, or you can watch the end-zone shot, or you can watch an isolated shot of Terance Mathis or whoever you want to. Because right now, the only thing that you watch is what the producer or director decides to show you.
~ John Madden
I started boxing for exercise, and on the very first day, the trainer got in the ring with me and said, 'Whoever controls the breathing in the ring controls the fight.' I immediately passed out.
~ Garry Shandling
Whoever pays should control; whoever pays should sanction. I agree. But budgetary union should be completed by a partial mutualisation of debts through eurobonds.
~ Francois Hollande
To enter the U.K., you have to show your passport - whoever you are, wherever you're from - and you always will. That's because we have opted out of the passport-free Schengen area and have retained full control over who comes in.
~ Anna Soubry
Gerrymandering at its essence is supposed to be used to reflect the changing geography to ensure representation. But we know that politics gets involved and it's used to benefit whoever's in control. That's the problem we have with gerrymandering.
~ Wayne Messam
This is what the Democrats want - for you to ignore whoever is pulling the strings of Joe Biden.
~ Will Cain
If you use a proprietary program or somebody else's web server, you're defenceless. You're putty in the hands of whoever developed that software.
~ Richard Stallman