Control Quotes - Page 8

Control leads to compliance; autonomy leads to engagement.

It is unfortunate that when you want to make some people feel like human beings, they begin to take you as an animal.

The 'will to power and independence' has become so ubiquitous that it is now considered normal.

Magic is dangerous: it's neither good nor bad, right nor wrong; it can be both a blessing and a curse. It takes strength, the strength of a man, to make the magic his own, to make it serve him, and not the other way around.

You can't retire to weakness - you've got to learn to control strength.

I would be bored to death if I didn't control a country-Gin

As I like to put it, we have hit pay dirt. The effort to cure the resource curse is a good example of what private foundations working with NGOs can accomplish.

The main obstacle to further progress on the resource curse is China, and to a lesser extent India.

No one else can choose your attitude for you. Your perspective and choice of attitude gives you the power to be in control.

Power and control are more dangerous than any weapons.

When you accidentally assert power over someone or something, one of two things will happen: 1) you will be respected; or 2) you will be hated

Power, a paycheck and control do sick things to those who have the illusion of possessing it.

One way or another, we spend our whole lives being conditioned into accepting some line or order, some position of domination or subjection. It’s hard to unlearn such hierarchy, to undo such control. It’s implicit.

I mind the unmindful, but I mind my own mind too. Mine your mind, and mine the minds of others. Mind.. you are mine!

I suppose...my experience with organized faith of any stripe is somewhat stilted," Baisyl admitted. 'As far as my eyes have seen, it's a conglomeration of power-hungry men who self-appoint themselves the sole dictators of how others should live their lives in order to best please forces far beyond their control..

The chronicle of a man, the account of his life, his historiography, written as he lived out his life formed part of the rituals of his power. The disciplinary methods reversed this relation, lowered the threshold of describable individuality and made of this description a means of control and a method of domination.

Control is the basis of all true power. Authority and strength are matters of perception

Once the people have been deluded into believing that speeches and voting are the only acceptable tools by which to affect change in their nation, those who are in control no longer need to worry about any significant challenge to their power.

Power is never measured by what you can give but by what you can actually take!

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.