Quotes About Control

being angry is not the same thing as being called.

There was a time when religion ruled the world. It is known as the Dark Ages.

Collect yourself: to smother what you feel, recall to order, summon in one place; making, like Orpheus, a system against loss.

What is imperative is the Off switch; which he, at one point some time ago, opted for himself.

American global economic imperialism is a fact. It's a known fact. It's a simple fact.

Politics runs on power and money and on ignorance.

I think about death a lot, like I think we all do. I don't think of suicide as an option, but as fun. It's an interesting idea that you can control how you go. It's this thing that's looming, and you can control it.

While the world may be large, complex, and hard, and unfair; it is also knowable. It can be understood. Once understood, it can be directed, controlled, and improved.

Don't ever give anyone, anything, the power, the authority, to control your life unless it's just to do so.

Free will: Either God partially controls our free wills, or God entirely controls our free wills, but I guarantee you that we don't always have control of our free wills.

Government: A good government should always have the power to impeach, but never need to.

Government: A good government shouldn't control its citizens, but it should intervene when it's citizens are making harmful decisions. And when the government is making harmful decisions it's citizens should intervene. There needs to be some sort of safeguard that keeps these two from harming one another.

My name is authority so don't ever mess with me, because if you do, you'll get my power.

He killed his enemies because he was afraid they would kill him. Amin ordered entire tribes to be put to death, because he feared they would rebel.

All dictators, irrespective of epoch or country, have one common trait: they know everything, are experts on everything. The thoughts of Qadaffi and Ceau?escu, Idi Amin and Alfredo Stroessner—there is no end to the profundities and wisdom. Stalin was expert on history, economics, poetry, and linguistics. As it turned out, he was also expert on architecture.

As Karim Lala often said,'learn to clench the world in your fist. open your palm only when you have to receive money

Nothing is forever, if you have enough power tools.

Power has been called many things. The ultimate aphrodisiac. An absolute corrupter. A mistress. A violin. But its true nature remains elusive. After all, a head of state wields a very different sort of power than

A wolf is only as strong as his heart, and my heart belongs completely to you. So who really has the power here?

And nothing's more frustrating than having feelings you didn't decide to have.

the right to be a god

Stress" is mostly the result of not being allowed to kill some asshole you really want to slice and dice.

There may be a worse form of government than theocracy in the long run, but offhand I can't think of any.

Allah sends down natural disasters to control population explosion. He encourages us to go to war, He creates Pakistan and Akhand Bharat. In doing this, He teaches humans new and innovative methods of birth control.