Lenny Kravitz Quotes

I'd rather control someone than be controlled.

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

For the power of Man to make himself what he pleases means... the power of some men to make other men what THEY please.

I don't run behind authority.

You are controlling because I want you to do it, not because of the situation or what needs to be done.

I don't really want to control anyone, to be honest.

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

If you've experienced having control, you don't want to be moved to a subordinate position, if you have your druthers.

He did not care which direction the car was travelling, so long as he was in the driver’s seat.

Once a person insists on how you are to think he immediately begins to insist on how you are to behave.

Nobody wants to feel controlled or treated like a child.

Sex, drugs, money, power etc. Just because you get to choose your master doesn't mean you aren't a slave.

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.

I am a collaborator with everyone who agrees that I need to be in control. I happily collaborate with my loyalists.

I love someone who tries to boss me around.

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate.

My instinct is to be very controlling.

You carry forever the fingerprint that comes from being under someone's thumb.

Don't talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules.

Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war.

The people at the top of the league think they need to rein me in so I don't become another Michael Jordan, somebody they aren't able to mold and shape and make their puppet.

It's possible for people to gain control of every facet of your life.

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.