In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
James MadisonPower is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.
Robert GreeneA journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
John SteinbeckLaws control the lesser man… Right conduct controls the greater one.
Mark TwainOur enemy, the devil, wants to control us, and his target is our will. The main way he tries to influence our will is through lying to us.
Joyce MeyerI know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.
Thomas JeffersonI can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfil our destiny, but our fate is sealed.
Paulo CoelhoOf all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
C. S. LewisThe more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
Noam ChomskyThose who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.
Harry S. TrumanYou know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you’re held responsible for everything, but you don’t always have control of everything, right?
Barack ObamaIf you have to control people, you have to have an administrative force that does it. So in U.S. industry, even more than elsewhere, there’s layer after layer of management – a kind of economic waste, but useful for control and domination. And the same is true in universities.
Noam ChomskyGreat is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.
Dylan ThomasOnce you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.
Margaret AtwoodPeople are terrified of me, and I want them to be.
Billie EilishAction seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.
William JamesI really don’t pay attention to the outside world when I’m incarcerated, because being in prison is like being in a different world. So I don’t pay attention to what’s going on outside of jail, because it’s all beyond my control.
Kevin GatesThere are massive efforts on the part of the internet’s corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control.
Noam ChomskyThe battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.
Napoleon BonaparteIt’s very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.
Jordan PetersonGoals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.
Brian TracyWhat we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
C. S. LewisYou cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
Brian TracyThe totalitarian, to me, is the enemy – the one that’s absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.
Christopher HitchensFreedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.
EpictetusIt’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.
Elon MuskMaleficent has suffered abuse in the past, and there’s a reason why she is now as furious as she is. And I think that children who have been outcast and abused in any way will relate to her. There’s a beautiful side to her; she’s not just a dark person. She has all these facets. And that is interesting.
Angelina JolieModern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.
John RuskinIn framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.
Alexander HamiltonChinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.
Jackie ChanWith artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon. You know all those stories where there’s the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, and he’s like, yeah, he’s sure he can control the demon? Doesn’t work out.
Elon MuskYou listen to Charlie Parker or John Coltrane before they found their voice, they sounded different. And when you listen to them after they found their voice on their instruments, they sound more confident and in control. Artists have that, too.
Nipsey HussleLife comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.
Angelina JolieGovernments don’t control people like they used to.
Noam ChomskyPower over a man’s subsistence is power over his will.
Alexander HamiltonThe world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
William JamesWhat I’d really like to control is not machines, but people.
Stephen HawkingWhen you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike.
Robert GreeneSmiling makes me feel weak and not in control and not powerful and small.
Billie EilishControl and surrender have to be kept in balance. That’s what surfers do – take control of the situation, then be carried, then take control. In the last few thousand years, we’ve become incredibly adept technically. We’ve treasured the controlling part of ourselves and neglected the surrendering part.
Brian EnoAfter one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one’s person.
Nelson MandelaI don’t run restaurants that are out of control. We are about establishing phenomenal footholdings with talent.
Gordon RamsayTo do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.
HeraclitusIf we go on your iPhone and go to the dictionary and look up ‚humble,‘ 80 per cent of the definition is negative. It’s a controlling word. It’s a way to control the masses and to control the sheep.
Kanye WestI’m a human being and I fall in love and sometimes I don’t have control of every situation.
Beyonce KnowlesThe thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument… an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda.
Dan QuayleThe most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
AristotleEvery legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.
James BaldwinLike any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me when the director says, ‚One tear, right now,‘ that one tear would pop out.
Marilyn MonroeThe atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.
Lyndon B. JohnsonI think I’m like most people – we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don’t deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it’s very hard not to be fearless.
RihannaThe public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.
VoltaireI have learned from personal experience that putting trust in God means there will be some unanswered questions. That was a hard lesson for me because I naturally want to understand everything… to know what’s going on so I can feel like I’m in control.
Joyce MeyerI don’t control my writing – it controls me.
Ray BradburyA family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.
George OrwellTo enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
BuddhaI’m the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it’s still about the work.
Jim CarreyImmense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
Andrew CarnegieThe only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.
Franklin D. RooseveltAny man can call time out, but no man can say how long the time out will be.
Kurt Vonnegut