2,640 Quotes About Control

I thought about how often this was needed in everyday life. How we feel lonely, sometimes to the point of tears, but we don't let those tears come because we are not supposed to cry. Or how we feel a surge of love for a partner but we don't say anything because we're frozen with the fear of what those words might do to the relationship.

But now here I am: No money. No place to stay. It should be my worst nightmare. But I don't care. It's funny the things you think you're scared of until they're upon you, and then you're not.

Life should never happen to you, but you should hold the power over life, with what kind of experience you wish to have, without any internal and external pressure.

They use fear to control us, they control us to make us afraid. One more reason to be brave.

I used to think the opposite of control was chaos. But it's not. The opposite of control is surrender.

Behind the facade of elected government are a bunch of corporate controlled gangsters running the country.

Now, you and I both know that if you can control the flow of information, you can control everything.

That surge of power and delight, of confidence, of control. That sudden sense of the richness of the world. Its infinite possibility.

Maybe none of this is about control. Maybe it isn't really about who can own whom, who can do what to whom and get away with it, even as far as death. [...] Maybe it's about who can do what to whom and be forgiven for it. Never tell me it amounts to the same thing.