Quotes about Control
Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.
— John Quincy Adams
I believe very confidently in the truth of Scripture, where it says that there is no authority, no power given to man except as given by God.
— Steven Curtis Chapman
The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The longer I go on, the more I am aware of the power of finance.
— Justin Welby
What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
— CS Lewis
Whoever can do as he pleases, commands when he entreats.
— Pierre Corneille
When we lack integrity, we use power to control. When we lead with integrity, we use power to bless.
— Erwin McManus
There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.
— Marcus Aurelius
Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. Democracy will rise superior to the money power.
— Abraham Lincoln
Unless the power of the corporation can be organized on an accepted principle of legitimacy, it will be taken over by a Central government
— Peter Drucker
I say 'Out' to every negative thought that comes to my mind. No person, place, or thing has any power over me, for I am the only thinker in my mind. I create my own reality and everyone in it.
— Louise Hay
Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.
— Edmund Burke