Quotes about Control

It's an old, old trick of autocratic rule. Good subjects must feel guilty. The guilt begins as a feeling of failure. The good autocrat provides many opportunities for failure in the populace.

But power deluded those who used it. One tended to believe power could overcome any barrier … including one's own ignorance.

Power tends to isolate those who hold too much of it. Eventually, they lose touch with reality . . . and fall.

But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.

When I'm stronger than you I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.

Behind any use of power over another the ultimate assumption remains: 'I feed on your energy.

Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.

But why not? He deserved it. It took years to take control of this school—to oust the resisters, to implant the sympathizers, to blind the parents to what was happening to their children. It was no small task.

Without men to do your killing, the woman will have power over you!" "She doesn't know that!

There's a part of you - the born-again part, your spirit - that's dead to sin. That's why it bothers you now when you sin. The 'wilderness' part of you - your soul - is your unrenewed mind, out-of-control emotions, and stubborn will.

If you have control of the midfield, you have control of the game, and you have more chances to win.

Spontaneous expansion must be free: it cannot be under our control; and consequently it is utterly vain to say, as I constantly hear men say, that we desire to see spontaneous expansion, and yet must maintain our control. If we want to see spontaneous expansion we must establish native Churches free from our control.