Quotes About Control

For me to stand there and try to pick my punches, I can't do that.

The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.

In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.

This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment.

When I went to record my first album, which should have been a punk album, there was a synthesiser in the control room. I'd never seen one before but they let me have a go on it and I loved it to bits.

The people at the top of the league think they need to rein me in so I don't become another Michael Jordan, somebody they aren't able to mold and shape and make their puppet.

I feel like Obama's an Illuminati puppet.

Please don't begin to believe that the American political establishment is anything but a corrupt puppet of oligarchy.

I'm not anybody's puppet.

Everything in my career is my decision - every picture, every outfit. You get one chance at this, and I never saw myself as being a puppet.

The pop-star thing bores me because it's somebody programming someone else. Stand over here, sing that, no, sing it like this, talk like that, when they ask you this, don't say that, say this, hold that, drive this, stay here, live there - you're not even a human being. You're a puppet.

I had a desire to prove to myself that I was actually in control - that I wasn't a puppet.

I'm not a puppet in anyone's hands.

But the more successful I became as an actor, the less control I had. I became more of a puppet, really. It certainly felt like that, at least.

I always say I want creative control. A lot of people don't think about that. And that's what every artist should think of - being creative and not just a puppet.

Obama's just a puppet - he's a puppet in a chair.

I wasn't very good as a puppet. A lot of times in a movie, you need a really good puppeteer: you're sort of a puppet, and you're doing what you can. But I always, from the beginning, was kind of making up my own stuff from stand-up and sort of directing myself, so I wasn't very good in movies where I didn't have control.

I think if you have a really big, heavy person, there's a feeling of an invisible puppeteer jerking them around in space. They don't feel like they are moving themselves.

We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.

As long as Muslims were confident they could not be defeated, but now we are just puppets.

Everyone loves puppets.

Committed teachers know their students' needs better than anyone in the system. Traditionally, however, teachers have little control over the purchase of student materials.

Would any one believe that I am master of slaves by my own purchase? I am drawn along by the general inconvenience of living without them.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.