Quotes on Power And Control

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Let's ask God to help us to self-control for one who lacks it, lacks his grace.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Patriarchy, like any system of domination (for example, racism), relies on socializing everyone to believe that in all human relations there is an inferior and a superior party, one person is strong, the other weak, and that it is therefore natural for the powerful to rule over the powerless. To those who support patriarchal thinking, maintaining power and control is acceptable by whatever means.

Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

The powers of financial capitalism had a far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent meetings and conferences.

Most Christian leadership is exercised by people who do not know how to develop healthy, intimate relationships and have opted for power and control instead. Many Christian empire-builders have been people unable to give and receive love.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power.

The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.