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Quotes About Control

There are two ways of thinking. One is living life based on fear. The other is trusting. Letting go and allowing trust to control our lives takes mental gymnastics.
~ David W. Earle
The truth is the greatest enemy of the State.
~ Unknown
Every Superstate has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and the truth is a menace.
~ Rod Serling
A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud.
~ George Orwell
Where is the delusion when truth is known? Where is the disease when the mind is clear? Where is death when the Breath is controlled? Therefore surrender to Yoga.
~ Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.
~ George R. R. Martin
But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
~ Mary Pickford
It is not truth that matters, but victory.
~ Adolf Hitler
All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
~ Baron de Montesquieu
It's frightening to think that you might not know something, but more frightening to think that, by and large, the world is run by people who have faith that they know exactly what is going on.
~ Amos Tversky
In the absence of truth, power is the only game in town.
~ Richard John Neuhaus
But the simple truth is that we've lost control of our own borders, and no nation can do that and survive.
~ Ronald Reagan
Satan has no power over us except what we allow. Moment by moment, decision by decision, step by step - will we operate in God's all powerful Truth or allow Satan to entangle us in his lies?
~ Lysa TerKeurst
We are the decisive factor in the affairs of the universe.
~ Derek Prince
The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth.
~ William J. Clinton
The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.
~ Herodotus
Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth.
~ Edward Abbey
[T]he truth is you don't need some external demon to take control of you to turn you into a raging, money-obsessed sociopath, you only need to let loose the demons you already have inside of you.
~ Jay-Z
She didn't know how Charlie did this on a daily basis. Maintain order. Honestly, it would have been easier just to make a run for it or lay waste to everyone in a five-mile radius. Illegal but easier. Oh, and . . . yeah . . . morally wrong
~ Shelly Laurenston
Yes. I appreciate the helpful and long spreadsheet with all the many places you can't go.
~ Shelly Laurenston
Stevie clearly didn't have control over her issues. She panicked easy. She cried easy. She exploded into rage real easy. And when she did all three at the same time . . .
~ Shelly Laurenston
I always thought he looked like a postal worker who's about one write-up away from losing it completely." "Personally
~ Shelly Laurenston