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Quotes About Control

Authority ... cannot be a darksome power that compels us to subject ourselves without reason.
~ G C Berkouwer
The first law of business: Make the rules or your rivals will
~ G Richard Shell
the result will be the expansion of government.
~ G. Edward Griffin
usually this starts out as an inefficient dictatorship, but by the time they get the U.N. money, it ends up as an efficient dictatorship
~ G. Edward Griffin
Collectivism and freedom are mortal enemies. Only one will survive
~ G. Edward Griffin
The new business model for America is clearly recognizable. Its dominant feature is the merger of government, real estate, and commerce into a single structure, tightly controlled at the top. It is the same model used in Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Communist China.
~ G. Edward Griffin
The circular which was distributed to attract subscribers to the Bank's initial stock offering explained: "The Bank hath benefit of interest on all the moneys which it, the Bank, creates out of nothing.
~ G. Edward Griffin
Modern civilization is based on violence and slavery and fine words.
~ G. I. Gurdjief
Question 11 What are God's works of providence? Answer
~ G. I. Williamson
All government is an ugly necessity.
~ G. K. Chesterton
The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all.
~ G. K. Chesterton
They often felt flooded by possibilities, leaving Perazzoli thinking that the project ran "right on the edge of chaos." More control wasn't the answer, however. "It seems like a little dose of management is needed," he said. "Yet you can never give a little management. You always give too much. Its a very precarious position, undermanaging. Yet you have to be there to succeed." Cutler
~ G. Pascal Zachary
In markets, you gain leverage by your power to walk away. Inside organizations, you gain leverage by having control over key items such as resources, decisions, budgets, information, and the like.
~ G. Richard Shell
It is a war of religion as much as a war for power.
~ G.A. Henty
The well-being of a man is that everyone be his slave.
~ G.I. Gurdjieff
For some, religion is a law, a guidance, a direction; for others - a policeman.
~ G.I. Gurdjieff
More than anything I am afraid of fear itself overwhelming me. One must use any bit of folly to control it.
~ Gabriel Chevallier
The only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them.
~ Gabriel Heatter
Per me fotografare significa prelevare campioni del mondo reale e metabolizzarli, come sostanza necessaria e nutriente per la memoria, e sono convinto di avere un rapporto bulimico con la realtà. Scatto davvero molte fotografie anche se, facendo per lo più uso del cavalletto e di una macchina di grande formato, riesco a controllarmi e a non farmi prendere troppo la mano dalla rapidità quasi compulsiva sempre in agguato e a mantenere un ritmo lento e misurato.
~ Gabriele Basilico
Ci vuole disciplina per essere uno spirito libero
~ Gabrielle Roth
A name is destiny, if you think it is.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Never use someone else's engine, if you can help it," Dov warned. "You cede too much power to them.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Galina: You want to control the world and everyone in it, but you can't. Let whatever this is - and it's likely nothing - play out... Anya: So we do nothing? Galina: Sometimes that's the only thing to do.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
People knowing your private business gave them power over you" -Anya
~ Gabrielle Zevin