Power And Control Quotes

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

  George Orwell

  Dream, Time, Peace

  Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 1, ch. 3 (1949) See Orwell 19

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

  John Steinbeck

  Fear, Loss, Power

  "The Short Reign of Pippin IV". Book by John Steinbeck, p. 102, 1957.

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• The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

  Alice Walker

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• 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.

  Woodrow Wilson

  World Government, Nwo, Bankers

  "The New Freedom". Illustrated & Biography Added,

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• He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

  Laozi

  Positive, Encouragement, Powerful

  Laozi, Archie J. Bahm (1996). “Tao Teh King”, p.36, Jain Publishing Company

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

  Malcolm X

  Power, Faces, Steps

  "Malcolm X Speaks". Book by George Breitman, 1965.

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• Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.

  Joseph Stalin

  Powerful, Knowledge, Gun

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

  Gautama Buddha

  Motivational, Positive, Inspiring

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• He who controls the past controls the future.

  Laozi

  Future, Past, Political Language

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• I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.

  Pietro Aretino

  Motivational, Kings, Responsibility

  Pietro Aretino (1926). “The Works of Aretino: Biography: de Sanctis. The letters. The sonnets. Appendix”

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

  Peter Drucker

  Education, Wise, Knowledge

  Peter Drucker (2017). “The Age of Discontinuity: Guidelines to Our Changing Society”, p.339, Routledge

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• Rule your mind or it will rule you.

  Horace

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

  Elie Wiesel

  Motivational, Fitness, Exercise

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• If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Love, Inspirational, Positive

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

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Leadership, Wisdom

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  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.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Freedom, Men, Democracies Have

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• Conscience whispers, but interest screams aloud.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Motivational, Temptation, Self Control

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• The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.

  Josh Billings

  Inspirational, Funny, Time

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• You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.

  Charles A. Beard

  Life, Father, Struggle

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• I bid you conquer in your warfare against your four great enemies, the world, the devil, the flesh, and above all, that obstinate and perverse self-will, unaided by which the other three would be comparatively powerless.

  Augustus William Hare

  Motivational, Self, Enemy

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• 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.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “An Ideal Husband”, p.40, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Good intentions will always be pleaded, for every assumption of power; but they cannot justify it ... It is hardly too strong to say, that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intention, real or pretended.

  Daniel Webster

  Strong, Real, Gun

  Daniel Webster (1854). “The speeches of Daniel Webster and his master-pieces”, p.282

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• The depression was the calculated 'shearing' of the public by the World Money powers, triggered by the planned sudden shortage of supply of call money in the New York money market....The One World Government leaders and their ever close bankers have now acquired full control of the money and credit machinery of the U.S. via the creation of the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank.

  Curtis Bean Dall

  New York, Order, Nwo

  "Franklin Roosevelt, My Exploited Father-in-Law" by Curtis Dall, 1968.

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

  Felix Frankfurter

  Freedom, Real, Exercise

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

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Motivational, Good Morning, Vices

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Seamus Perry (2002). “Coleridge's Notebooks: A Selection”, p.71, Oxford University Press, USA

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