Control Quotes

"A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it." "In chess, one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge" "The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people." "Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives—the power to retell it, rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change—truly are powerless" "Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined" "Decentralization is not just a buzzword; it's a commitment to ensuring that no single entity has control" "I must govern the clock, not be governed by it" "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" "He who angers you conquers you. " "To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them" "If you get too attached to how you want it to come out the other side, you freeze. I try to trust that it will work out in the end" "There's nothing I can control about how people see me as a person, but I can control how they think of me as an actor" "The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion" "Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation" "What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse" "The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum." "Propaganda is lousy to live with and difficult to overcome" "Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it" "When you step on the brakes, your life is in your foot's hands." "What worries you masters you"