Power Control Quotes

#1. I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power, control, sexuality and race.

Barbara Kruger

#2. Issues of power, control, energy fuels, and political strength have become key themes in our current events. We have come a long way from iron spearheads to nuclear warheads, yet the disease of power used for control and domination has remained.

Anodea Judith

#3. Knowledge is power. The moment the masses acquire this power, control fades. And when control fades, chaos erupts.

Felix O. Hartmann

#4. The Democrats have essentially decided to move more toward central power, control of just about every aspect of our culture and economy.

Jim DeMint

#5. When I get a chance to power jump off both legs, I can lean, twist, change directions and decide whether to dunk the ball or pass it to an open man. In other words, I may be committed to the air, but I still have some control over it.

Julius Erving

#6. You can use power for good or bad, for control or freedom. You grew up watching your dad abuse it one way and it made you take the opposite direction. That's what we all think. Everything's about balance. That's what sustains life. Maybe your role is to keep your dad in check?

Katie Kacvinsky

#7. Justice is God's control over the order of the universe. Mercy is God's power even over the order of the universe.

Kevin Cook

#8. It's wherever business rules, business is going to get the politicians they want because they control the money and money controls the power.

Rob Walton

#9. Feminine power is silent, dark, mysterious, healing, nurturing. A woman can walk into a room and control it. She doesn't even have to open her mouth if she knows where her power is.

Iyanla Vanzant

#10. By using power, money, fraud, the enemy is interested in gaining control over the world of Islam.

Mohammed Emami-Kashani

#11. Smaller government, more individual responsibility, more individual control creates more Republicans. More state power and ownership and control and top-down decision-making creates more Democrats.

Grover Norquist

#12. Through knowledge and understanding we will drive from the temple of freedom all who seek to establish over us thought control - whether they be agents of a foreign power or demagogues thirsty for personal power and public notice.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#13. Scientology always has been a game of power and control. L. Ron Hubbard was the ultimate con man, and it's hard to figure out how much of Scientology was an experiment in brainwashing and controlling people, and how much of it was truly intended to help people.

Jenna Miscavige Hill

#14. So in everything: power lies with those who control finance, not with those who know the matter upon which the money is to be spent. Thus, the holders of power are, in general, ignorant and malevolent, and the less they exercise their power the better.

Bertrand Russell

#15. While Napoleon believed his fortunes to be governed by destiny, his real genius lay in self-control and martial daring coupled with an indomitable will to power.

Michael Dirda

#16. Risk is the factor of a stratagem measured by what man is powerless to control.

Mike Norton

#17. I was married, a mom, and a career woman - the holy trinity of women in the twenty-first century. The three expressions were truly distinct, but the unity of them created the essence. I must confess I felt in control, much more than I felt blessed.

Sharon Nir

#18. Large corporations and governments do not seem to understand this rebound power of information and its ability to control those who try to control it. When you hear a corporation or a debt-laden government trying to "reinstill confidence" you know they are fragile, hence doomed.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#19. You are the master of your own earthly destiny just as surely as you have the power to control your own thoughts

Napoleon Hill

#20. The greatest form of power is the power to control one's self not the power to control others.

Auliq Ice

#21. The journey of life is the unification of fragmentation. Fragments are units of power that are out of control. We make agreements to come and collect ourselves.

Caroline Myss

#22. To admit error and cut losses is rare among individuals, unknown among states. States function only in terms of what those in control perceive as power or personal ambition, and both of these wear blinkers.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#23. Our insecurities drive us. Our fears control us. We try to hide the first and deny the second and it is exhausting us.

David Amerland

#24. When I'm playing, I feel like I have control over something. I feel like I have the power to change things. I feel more real out there than I do anywhere else. The court doesn't care what my name is or where I come from or where I'll be tomorrow. It lets me exist.

Nora Sakavic

#25. He had so much control over me, so much power to have me this close to destruction so quickly. I was exposed. Raw and vulnerable. Caught off guard by how easily he annihilated me each and every time. It scared me.

Laurelin Paige

#26. Power is generally defined as control over resources and control over access to resources, which often means control over other people because we're thinking about things like financial resources or shelter, or even love and affection, but we also possess resources that we sometimes can't access.

Amy Cuddy

#27. When perception of the physical world is limited to the five-sensory modality, the basis of life in the physical arena becomes fear. Power to control the environment, and those within the environment appears to be essential.

Gary Zukav

#28. Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges ... which are employed altogether for their benefit.

Andrew Jackson

#29. Now you are no longer a giggling child, smiling at whoever comes along. You are a woman with power. Learn to control your smile, and you can control what men will think about you.

Michelle Moran

#30. My only fixed truth is a belief in people: a conviction that if people have the opportunity to act freely and the power to control their own destinies, they'll generally reach the right decisions.

Saul Alinsky

#31. When I was old enough to realize all meat was killed, I saw it as an irrational way of using our power, to take a weaker thing and mutilate it. It was like the way bullies would take control of younger kids in the schoolyard.

River Phoenix

#32. Money gives you the power to do whatever you want to do. I like the idea of being in complete control of my life.

Louise Mensch

#33. You will always rebel," he whispered in her ear. "Against power. Against control. Against the will of others. It is in your very blood, Ava. I may have fallen, but you ripped the threads of heaven itself to get what you wanted.

Elizabeth Hunter

#34. Each state claims the right to control interests foreign to itself when those interests are such that it can control them without putting its own interests in danger. other powers only
recognize this right of intervening in proportion as the country doing it has the power to do it.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#35. Unless the mass retains sufficient control over those entrusted with the powers of their government, these will be perverted to their own oppression, and to the perpetuation of wealth and power in the individuals and their families selected for the trust.

Thomas Jefferson

#36. This war has been motivated by pride or arrogance, by a desire to control oil wealth, by a desire to implant our programs. (talking about the Iraq war)

Jimmy Carter

#37. Anyone can shoot a gun but the real power comes from non-violent means.

J.C. Phillips

#38. Nothing's ever too fast. Maybe sometimes on the road some people are too fast if they don't know how to control the car, but in racing, the faster and more power and grip, the better it is.

Heikki Kovalainen

#39. You have the power and control to be whatever you want to be, no matter where you start in life.

Joey Graceffa

#40. Exploring microhistories, cultural history can "track the changing interplay among schools of thought and language patronage and power of financing and control, teaching traditions and elites," that is, make us aware of the discursive workings of power.

Martin Prochazka

#41. It may be a man's world, but men are easily controlled by women.

Ashly Lorenzana

#42. Sovereignty means exercising kingly power. We use the word in relation to God meaning that there is absolutely nothing that he does not control.

Graeme Goldsworthy

#43. It follows that America's primary interest is to help ensure that no single power comes to control this geopolitical space and that the global community has unhindered financial and economic access to it.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

#44. Money power means budget power and it is folly to imagine that the citizen can control government unless he can control its budget.

E.C. Riegel

#45. So we live in an accelerating possibility curve. Perhaps we can't control it, but we can learn to ride it like a surfer on a wave or a bird on a thermal, to use its power to take us where we want to go - to live in uncertainty and yet act with confidence.

Dewitt Jones

#46. But belief in a system cannot be sustained for ever. Empires based solely on power and domination, while allowing their subjects to do as they will, can last for centuries. Those that try to control the everyday lives of their people are much harder to sustain.

Paul Kriwaczek

#47. Therapy is like telling your nightmares when you're a kid; they lose their power to hurt and control.

Beth Orton

#48. Once you can name something, you're conscious of it. You have power over it. You're in control. You own it.

Robin P. Williams

#49. I live because I have to. You will hurt, you will bleed, you will be betrayed as I have been betrayed. You will survive. And you must learn to control your power.

Melissa De La Cruz

#50. There is an old Arabic proverb, 'When the king puts the poet on his payroll, he cuts off the tongue of the poet', so throughout the ages, people in power have liked to control music, they used to throw songwriters in jail throughout history, and were assassinated.

Pete Seeger

#51. Far from creating independent thinkers, schools have always, throughout history, played an institutional role in a system of control and coercion. And once you are well educated you have already been socialized in ways that support the power structure, which, in turn, rewards you immensely.

Noam Chomsky

#52. Putting the potential for damage into someone else's hands is scary. I have to have control, even if it is the power to self-destruct.

Samantha Schutz

#53. I'm not a big power-and-strength guy, but I have a lot of balance, and I can take hits and stay on my feet. I control myself real good, shift my weight, and run real low. I do things that people haven't seen some of the running backs in the league do.

Marshall Faulk

#54. The 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 Quayle

#55. If you don't forgive those who have hurt you, you give them power of you. When you forgive you are in control of yourself and emotions.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#56. God in His perfect wisdom gave you power to control only one thing in the entire universe, and that is you.

John Patrick Hickey

#57. Time. It takes control over us and when we realize this, it's often too late. That's again the power of time. See? It's sort of a vicious circle. Take control of your precious time and live life to the fullest.

Tessa Vanluchene

#58. As an actress, I'm supposed to create something from head to toes, with clues, with lines, with shapes, and even with that power, I felt lost and not in control.

Ludivine Sagnier

#59. The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.

Ted Nugent

#60. The result of all this turmoil is that product excellence is now paramount to business success - not control of information, not a stranglehold on distribution, not overwhelming marketing power (although these are still important).

Eric Schmidt

#61. When you REACT you are giving away your power. When you RESPOND you are staying in control of yourself.

Bob Proctor

#62. O Divine Providence, I ask not for more riches but more wisdom with which to make wiser use of the riches you gave me at birth, consisting in the power to control and direct my own mind to whatever ends I might desire.

Napoleon Hill

#63. No matter how omnipotent we think we are, we have damn little power to control our destinies.

Cynthia Freeman

#64. If the government controls your health care, the government controls you. Obamacare was never about health care. It was about government power, dependency, and control.

Monica Crowley

#65. Only through a steady mind and constant faith can your desires manifest.

Stephen Richards

#66. Yana," he said gravely, "you must learn the basic lesson that those who have power will use it, and those who don't must learn to control those who do. You

Kate Elliott

#67. Any thought that you don't control has the power to become toxic.

Toni Sorenson

#68. Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world.

Alfred A. Montapert

#69. The hardest lesson a wizard has to learn is that even with so much power, there are some things you can't control. No matter how much you want to.

Jim Butcher

#70. For a while, my self-control and my power of reason quailed to uselessness.

Kaoru Kurimoto

#71. Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives

Vernon Howard

#72. Anything with that much power and that little control, that utter lack of concern for anything but self is evil in the most effective sense of the word.

Jim Butcher

#73. Events of resistance have the power not only to escape control but also to create a new world.

Michael Hardt

#74. Have no power, by taxation or otherwise, to retard, impede, burden or in any manner control the operations of the constitutional laws enacted by Congress.

John Marshall

#75. Like many things in our national life, we miscalculated. We overestimated our ability to control events, which is one of the great dangers of a great power. Power tends to be a substitute for judgment and wisdom.

Hubert H. Humphrey

#76. If you can't control an emotion, it is not yours. You are in control.

Bobbie Kinkead

#77. The most amazing part," Katherine said, "is that as soon as we humans begin to harness our true power, we
will have enormous control over our world. We will be able to design reality rather than merely react to it.

Dan Brown

#78. The power to think as you wish to think is the only power over which you have absolute control.

Napoleon Hill

#79. If you continue to blame other people for "making" you feel guilty, they still have power over you, and you are saying that you will only feel good when they stop doing that. You are giving them control over your life. Stop blaming other people.

Henry Cloud

#80. I got my tubes tied last fall, at age 45 ... After 33 years or so, I struggled to gain control of my reproductive potential and its power over my destiny. Finally, instead of letting nature continue to screw around with me, at least in this one area I engineered a pre-emptive strike.

Marion Winik

#81. Anger, [Evagrius] wrote, is given to us by God to help us confront true evil. We err when we use it casually, against other people, to gratify our own desires for power or control.

Kathleen Norris

#82. Jealousy, anger, fear - these are ridiculous emotions that drain your power. You need to control them by being content, trusting that life knows what is best, accepting with an even mind whatever is presented to you.

Frederick Lenz

#83. I believe that obstinacy, or the dread of control and discipline, arises not so much from self-willedness as from a conscious defect of voluntary power; as foolhardiness is not seldom the disguise of conscious timidity.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#84. No doubt that the U.S. is a super-power capable of conquering a relatively small country, but is it able to control it?

Bashar Al-Assad

#85. It was very much a cry for democratic control at that time. Above all, breaking the accomplished power of a few people to rule the lives of everybody else.

Barbara Castle

#86. We think we can control our lives, but our lives control us. And everything that touches our lives controls us. People have less power than they think they do. It's just the reactions we control.

Tarryn Fisher

#87. Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work.

Nancy Chodorow

#88. Ownership has been separated from control; and this separation has removed many of the checks which formerly operated to curb the misuse of wealth and power.

Louis D. Brandeis

#89. I am angry at the Jews for many things ... If you want to take the example of America, how they hold the power, the economical power in so many ways, and the press and the other kind of stuff ... I never realized how it happened and they came to control the media to that point. Why?

Oriana Fallaci

#90. I'd been at the mercy of a prick on a power trip, the kind of buttoned-up bantam rooster who gets off on control and then, when you resist him, tells you that you've got issues with control.

Norah Vincent

#91. Relying, as I do, upon the Almighty Power, and encouraged as I am by these resolutions which you have just read, with the support which I receive from Christian men, I shall not hesitate to use all the means at my control to secure the termination of this rebellion, and will hope for success.

Abraham Lincoln

#92. Power and control are more dangerous than any weapons.

Aisha Mirza

#93. A temple was worth a dozen barracks; a militia man carrying a gun could control a small unarmed crowd only for as long as he was present; however, a single priest could put a policeman inside the head of every one of their flock, for ever.

Iain M. Banks

#94. Remember, NO ONE has the right to control your emotions, thoughts, and actions, unless you let them.

Kevin J. Donaldson

#95. Our minds become slaves to those we see as having total power to control us and to cause pain to us. We are quick to give up control of ourselves to those who have the power to rule us as long as they also have the power to feed us. This is the fundamental construct of a feudal society.

Majid Kazmi

#96. He would be able to create a scent that was not merely human, but super human, an angels scent, so indescribably good and vital that who ever smelt it would be enchanted and with his whole heart would have to love him.

Patrick Suskind

#97. No system that implies control of society by privilege seekers has ever ended any other way but collapse

William E. Dodd

#98. The greatest mystery a man ever learned, is to know how to control the human mind, and bring every faculty and power of the same in subjection to Jesus Christ; this is the greatest mystery we have to learn while in these tabernacles of clay.

Brigham Young

#99. But you could control her." "Of course. I've got the oldest power of all - an obscene amount of money.

Kami Garcia

#100. A government ought to contain in itself every power requisite to the full accomplishment of the objects committed to its care, and to the complete execution of the trusts for which it is responsible, free from every other control but a regard to the public good and to the sense of the people.

Alexander Hamilton