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Keep the people ignorant and afraid and control and power becomes a detail - a self generating byproduct of the people's hysteria. -- Derek R. Audette
The background of the Negro culture is voodoo and magic; and the purposes the magic are control and power over God, man, nature and society. Voodoo and magic was the religion and life of America's Negro. -- R.J. Rushdoony
The program director at a radio station, by the way, is not the superstar. If he was a superstar, he'd be out creating songs, but he's not. But he wants to act like he has control and power. -- Kid Rock
Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement. -- Peter Drucker
My power is the ability to control water molecules and form them into ice. -- Shawn Ashmore
Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie. -- Wole Soyinka
It is hard for power to enjoy or incorporate humour and satire in its system of control. -- Dario Fo
Serial killing is not about sex at all, but about power and control and revenge on society. -- Pat Brown
In 'Fifty Shades,' seemingly, Christian has all the power and control - but actually, Anastasia does. -- Sam Taylor-Johnson
White America' is a syndicate arrayed to protect its exclusive power to dominate and control our bodies. -- Ta-Nehisi Coates
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
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
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
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
Power tends to protect itself merely to maintain its own status and control. Principle gives up power for the sake of creating the best public policy. -- Daniel Webster
Nothing for the Left, nothing the government does is ever about its superficial reason; it's only and always about expanding government power and control over you. -- Monica Crowley
The insatiable need for heartless power and ruthless control is the telltale sign of an uninitiated man - the most irresponsible, incompetent and destructive force on earth. -- Michael Leunig
At least in the West, politicians, corporations and media moguls can no longer take for granted their power to control the public discourse - and have it go unchallenged. -- David Puttnam
The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses. -- Malcolm X
Politics, after all, is largely about power. And power goes to the core of our issues of control and narcissism and need to be right and tendency to divide the human race into 'us' vs. 'them.' -- John Ortberg
When money is controlled by a few it gives that few an undue power and control over labor and the resources of the country. Labor will have its best return when the laborer can control its disposal. -- Leland Stanford
A new understanding of power is replacing our old understanding of power as the ability to manipulate and control. The old understanding of power has become counterproductive to our evolution. What used to be good medicine has become poisonous. Pursuit of the ability to manipulate and control now produces only violence and destruction. -- Gary Zukav
International institutions are composed of governments. Governments control their own military forces and police. -- Samantha Power
Meekness is power under control. -- Warren W. Wiersbe
What is power without control? -- Keiichi Tsuchiya
Control is the source of strategic power. -- Noam Chomsky
Everybody wants power and control in their life. -- Robert Greene
Knowledge is not just power - it is control. -- Nick Harkaway
All power is from within and therefore under our control -- Robert Collier
Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power. -- James Allen
I'm God because I have the power to control my mind. -- Roseanne Barr
In that power of self-control lies the seed of eternal freedom. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
Power in America today is control of the means of communication. -- Theodore White
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control. -- Seneca the Younger
The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it. -- Frank Herbert
Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people. -- Tom Clancy
Leadership is not about control but service. Its not about power but empowerment -- Myles Munroe
The heart itself is beyond control. That is its power, and its weakness. -- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives -- Vernon Howard
Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love. -- Philip Yancey
Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Faith in a higher power helps us to control our mind and thoughts. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control. -- Martin Luther
Knowledge gives power. In practice it is very simple. To control yourself, know yourself. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Power, approval, comfort, and control are meta-idols that hold sway over our daily lives. -- Timothy Keller
The dominant factors affecting control valuations are earning power (past and prospective) and asset values. -- Warren Buffett
Distinguish between power and control, delegate, be decisive - and always remember people's first names. -- Alex Ferguson
Strength is found in weakness. Control is found in dependency. Power is found in surrender. -- Dan B. Allender
No authoritarian leader cedes power easily or turns it over to bodies he cannot control. -- Stephen Kinzer
Control is the basis of all true power. Authority and strength are matters of perception -- Brandon Sanderson
Never base your destiny on things you cannot control and have no power to change. -- John Patrick Hickey
People with real power never fear of losing it. People with control think of little else. -- Joss Whedon
It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives. -- Clint Eastwood
Nobody is going to delegate a lot of power to a secretary that they can't control. -- Michael Bloomberg
Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. -- Thurgood Marshall
Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power. -- Epictetus
'White America' is a syndicate arrayed to protect its exclusive power to dominate and control our bodies. -- Ta-Nehisi Coates
The control of knowledge is the crux of tomorrow's worldwide struggle for power in every human institution. -- Alvin Toffler
By using power, money, fraud, the enemy is interested in gaining control over the world of Islam. -- Mohammed Emami-Kashani
When you believe you have lost your power and control nothing will ever seem easy or simple. -- Shannon L. Alder
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs. -- Andrew Carnegie
Therapy is like telling your nightmares when you're a kid; they lose their power to hurt and control. -- Beth Orton
I think that there are a few people that are power manipulators that have gotten control of things. -- Owsley Stanley
Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I think we should stop using nuclear power plants because it's an old system that we can't control. -- Hayao Miyazaki
The is a secret for greater self-control, the science points to one thing: the power of paying attention. -- Kelly McGonigal
Events of resistance have the power not only to escape control but also to create a new world. -- Michael Hardt
Real power is control. Knowing that you can do anything...and not doing it only because you can. -- Joan D. Vinge
The founding fathers never once rationalized getting in power and having control so they could stay in power. -- Tom Coburn
My father was a Little League dictator. That really affected me, his control-freakery, his impunity, his arbitrary unreasonable power. -- Junot Diaz
When we lack integrity, we use power to control. When we lead with integrity, we use power to bless. -- Erwin McManus
These [NSA] programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power. -- Edward Snowden
The power to think as you wish to think is the only power over which you have absolute control. -- Napoleon Hill
When you REACT you are giving away your power. When you RESPOND you are staying in control of yourself. -- Bob Proctor
Preaching doom and gloom has been beneficial to the political class. They use it to gain more power and control. -- Walter E. Williams
Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched to their home today. -- Jack Valenti
We are the masters of our fate, the captains of our souls, because we have the power to control our thoughts. -- Napoleon Hill
God in His perfect wisdom gave you power to control only one thing in the entire universe, and that is you. -- John Patrick Hickey
When you give government the power to control the money supply, it grows like a tumor until it extinguishes society itself. -- Stefan Molyneux
Television represents what happens to a medium when the artists have no power and the businessmen are in full, unquestioned control. -- Pauline Kael
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
Structures can be manipulated for ill as well, especially when people are dealing with issues of power, or control, or violence. -- Ian MacKaye
The only keeper of your happiness is you. Stop giving people the power to control your smile, your worth and your attitude. -- Mandy Hale
... self-control is not control by oneself through one's own willpower but rather control of oneself through the power of the Holy Spirit. -- Jerry Bridges
This is class war on an international scale, and power is in the hands of those who control the international economic system. -- Noam Chomsky
In closing, the greatest threat to peace on this earth is the arrogance of a super-power [America] that is out of control. -- Louis Farrakhan
You are the master of your own earthly destiny just as surely as you have the power to control your own thoughts -- Napoleon Hill
You can't control other people, and giving them the power to decide if you will continue to produce good work is foolish. -- Seth Godin
The economy has made me think I have no power. That is not true. I control the power to change my future. -- Jon Jones
The human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control. -- Abraham Lincoln
You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not. -- Epictetus
Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world. -- William Shenstone
Happiness is a 'state of mind' which we ourselves have the power to control - and that control lies in our thinking. -- Claude M. Bristol
Punctuation is a fabulous tool for controlling your reader - you even get to control where they breathe. That's what I call power! -- Nicola Morgan
The Roman Catholic church... carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion -- Robin Morgan
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
In Europe, it appears that in the name of democracy, elites are pursuing an autocratic, centralized power, seeking economic control and social regimentation. -- Maggie Gallagher
The Roman Catholic church... carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion. -- Robin Morgan
The consummate leader cultivates the moral law, and strictly adheres to method and discipline; thus it is in his power to control success. -- Sun Tzu
We must have a spirit of power towards the enemy, a spirit of love towards men, and a spirit of self-control towards ourselves. -- Watchman Nee
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
I think I'm in control of what I do and what I've done. I think that's the ultimate feminine power. Do as you want. -- Pamela Anderson
If you work for money, you give the power to your employer. If your money works for you, you keep and control the power. -- Robert Kiyosaki
The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control? -- James Hillman
I'm basically a control freak. It's not because I want to be. I'm not at all into the power play that's involved in it. -- George Michael
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
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
The class which has the power to rob upon a large scale has also the power to control the government and legalize their robbery. -- Eugene V. Debs
Spiritual growth-looking inward-is replacing the pursuit of external power-reaching outward to manipulate and control-as the cure for the insecurity at the core of human experience. -- Gary Zukav
The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone. -- Orhan Pamuk
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
To be with God is really to be involved in some enormous, overwhelming desire, and joy, and power which you cannot control, which controls you. -- James A. Baldwin
I define power as control over one's life. Pay is not about power. Pay is about giving up power to get the power of pay. -- Warren Farrell
As whites see their power and control over their lives declining, will they simply go quietly into the night? Or will there be an explosion? -- John Tanton
Control over change would seem to consist in moving not with it but ahead of it. Anticipation gives the power to deflect and control force. -- Marshall McLuhan
A person with power has control of their emotions. A person with power can stop fear, stop depression, or they can augment a positive emotion. -- Frederick Lenz
When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us. -- Alan Watts
Release yourself from the power you've invested in your mirror and those around you - take control of who you are and how you feel! -- Denise Austin

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