Quotes About Control

Powerful people have no regrets.

People say that love is the best thing in the world not power. But they are wrong. Love is the opposite of power and that's why we fear it so much.

Fanatics have the look of people who do not masturbate but who think about it almost all time.

And money, if the pile gets high enough, is something like a big political party: it does as much harm as it does good, it puts too much power in too few hands, and the closer you come to it the dirtier you get.

The worst thing about corruption as a system of governance, Didier once said, is that it works so well.

The force is always with you, if you give up force

The world is run by one million evil men, ten million stupid men, and a hundred million cowards. The rest of us, all six billion of us, do pretty much what we are told!

Time is the web, and Fate is the spider.

Sometimes the lion must roar to remind the horse of his fear.

Suffering, let me see. I think that suffering is a matter of choice. I think that we do not have to suffer anything in this life, if we are strong enough to deny it. The strong man can master his feelings so completely that it is almost impossible to make him suffer. When we do suffer things, like pain and so, it means that we have lost control. So I will say that suffering is a human weakness.

There is an element of control we have over suffering.

Enough obedience will let people do just about anything to other people', I said. 'I like that answer,' Idriss said. Praise from the wise is the sweetest wine. I felt the warmth of it inside. 'Obedience is the assassin of conscience,' Idriss said softly, 'and that is why every lasting institution demands it.

But fate—you know fate? Kismet is the word, in the Urdu language—fate has every power over us, but two. Fate cannot control our free will, and fate cannot lie. Men lie, to themselves more than to others, and to others more often than they tell the truth. But fate does not lie. Do you see?

Suffering, let me see. I think that suffering is a matter of choice. I think that we do not have to suffer anything in this life, if we are strong enough to deny it. The strong man can master his feelings so completely that it is almost impossible to make him suffer. When we do suffer things, like pain and so, it means that we have lost control. So I will say that suffering is a human weakness. - Madjid

When we do suffer things, like pain and so, it means that we have lost control.

Una volta qualcuno mi ha detto che se trasformi il tuo cuore in un'arma, prima o poi finisci per usarla contro di te.

fate has every power over us, but two. Fate cannot control our free will, and fate cannot lie.

There is no fear and there is no greed in love, just as there is no authority or control, which is why it is beyond illusions of power.

Even the power of prayer, master-ji?' Ambitious asked. 'Is there no such thing?' 'There is the spiritual energy of prayer,' Idriss replied, 'just as there is the spiritual energy of love, and both are reservoirs of grace, but there is no power. Energy is the process, and power is the attempt to control the process.

Anarchists...' I began and then faltered. 'No political philosophy I ever heard of loves the human race as much as anarchism. Every other way of looking at the world says that people have to be controlled, and ordered around, and governed. Only the anarchists trust human beings enough to let them work it out for themselves. And I used to be that optimistic once. I used to believe and think like that. But I don't, any more. So, no--I guess I'm not an anarchist now.

We are not apes forever. We can change ourselves. We are changing, all the time. We will discover the laws of everything, and we will control our evolution. That is destiny controlling DNA, rather than DNA controlling destiny, as it did forever, until now.

we can shape behaviour more fluently than we can understand it.

Love is the opposite of power. That's why we fear it so much.

So, that's it,' he concluded. 'The world is run by one million evil men, ten million stupid men, and a hundred million cowards. The rest of us, all six billion of us, do pretty much what we are told.