Maleficent was always so elegant. She always was in control. And to play her was difficult. I worked on my voice a lot. She’s bigger than me. She’s on a different level of performance that I have never done.

Laws control the lesser man… Right conduct controls the greater one.

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider… the riders contend for its possession.

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.

Music is something no one can control.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there’s no question about it.

Like 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.

Power over a man’s subsistence is power over his will.

I don’t think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

People are terrified of me, and I want them to be.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

After 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.

Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

I loved being Maleficent. I was quite sad to put my staff down and put my horns away because somehow, she just lives in a different world.

Maleficent 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.

Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

I’m the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it’s still about the work.

There 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.

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

F2 cars have downforce; they’re quick. But it’s difficult for your brain and eyes to keep up with everything that’s going on once you’re in an F1 car. You get used to it and you learn to stay calm, because if you react too quickly the opposite will happen. Being more relaxed is when it becomes more natural and controlled.

The 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.

Control is the source of strategic power.

I have a very strict gun control policy: if there’s a gun around, I want to be in control of it.

I’m very type-A, and many things in my life are about control and domination, but eating should be a submissive experience, where you let down your guard and enjoy the ride.

Widespread use of antibiotics promotes the spread of antibiotic resistance. Smart use of antibiotics is the key to controlling its spread.

You 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.

The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

What I’d really like to control is not machines, but people.

When 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.

With 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.

In 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.

A consistent anarchist must oppose private ownership of the means of production, and the wage-slavery which is a component of this system, as incompatible with the principle that labor must be freely undertaken and under the control of the producer.

Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.

Control 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.

Action 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.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

If 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.

I 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.

I 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.

What 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.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

The 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.

In the world of money and investing, you must learn to control your emotions.

It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

To 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.

You know we’re going to control the insurance companies.

Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.

If 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.

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

When the external factors over which one has no control in a way start to become negative, it starts to affect our creative juices.

You 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?

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.