Quotes About Control

general amorality of the weapons business in their disdain for any kind of control over the arms trade, their dislike of attempts to promote peace, and their willingness to use bribes.

Don't rely on the properties of things you can't control.

Responsibility is something you actively agree to. You make a commitment to ensure that something is done right, but you don't necessarily have direct control over every aspect of it.

In addition to doing your own personal best, you must analyze the situation for risks that are beyond your control.

nonorthogonal systems are inherently more complex to change and control. When components of any system are highly interdependent, there is no such thing as a local fix.

What is most striking about the most powerful man in the world is not the power that he wields. It is how constrained he and his lieutenants are by forces that lie beyond their grasp and perhaps their understanding.

Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigorously, more vigorously, and more severely, than by one.

If you really want to make a million, the quickest way is to start your own religion.

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Absolute power corrupts absolutely, and no power is more absolute than parenthood.

Depression frequently destroys the power of mind over mood.

The social perception of whether any supposed deficit is the parents' fault is always a critical factor in the experience of both children and parents. The attribution of responsibility to parents is often a function of ignorance, but it also reflects our anxious belief that we control our own destinies.

You say that you really don't want to get sick again. But wellness is still, in this area, associated not with achieving control of your problem, but with discontinuation of medication: "Well, I sure hope you get off sometime soon," they say.

power exercises over the civilian population.

Just as the only real antidote to the temptations of money is lavish generosity, so the only real antidote to the temptations of power is choosing to spend our power in the opposite of the way the world encourages us to spend it: not on getting closer to the sources of additional power or on securing our own round-the-clock sense of comfort and control, but spend it on getting closer to the relatively powerless.

The poor are poor," Jayakumar said to me, "because someone else is trying to play God in their lives.

The powerful have a hard time seeing their own power and its effects. We do not see when our exercise of power is cutting off life and possibility for others; we do not see the ways others are resisting or undermining our own power.

ALL HAIL THE NEW ORDER!' chanted the crowd. It was a truly grotesque sight.

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I always run into strong women who are looking for weak men to dominate them.

I learned that you actually have more power when you shut up.

The best part of my new job was finally running my own show and no longer having to answer to people like [Chris Kimsington].

Every tool is a weapon if you hold it right.

If a dish could make a woman strong enough to ignore the call of her heart, then the world would be ruled by woman. There would be no tears or shattered dreams.- Komathi, Alphabet Soup for Lover