Absolute Control Quotes

The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it.

It is God that accomplishes all term to hopes, God, who overtakes the flying eagle, outpasses the dolphin in the sea; who bends under his strength the man with thoughts too high.

When I was a child it was very clear what I was allowed to see and what I was not allowed to see and there was no discussion or option or negotiation. Whatever my mom said, that's what went down.

How can this full, perfect, just and supreme voice of the people, embodied in the Constitution, be brought to bear, habitually and steadily, in counteracting the fatal tendency of the government to the absolute and despotic control of the numerical majority?

[The beef trust is] an atrocious conspiracy of greed against need…. Can anyone deny that such absolute control by a few men over the food supply of the nation is in the highest degree hostile to the public welfare.

God does not rule by the consent of His subjects but by His sovereign authority. His reign extends over me whether I vote for Him or not.

I've always been completely autocratic. I've never learned to be diplomatic or democratic.

No one has the right to tell me what to do because he has a divine warrant.

Tyrants and dictators will accept no other gods before them. They require disobedience to the First Commandment. They seek absolute control and are threatened by faith in God. They fear only the power they cannot possess - the power of truth. So they resent the living example of the devout, especially the devotion of a unique people chosen by God.

It was no accident of time or place that the concentration of power over all human life in a centrally planned society attracted and rewarded the aggressive, unscrupulous, and demagogic who would attract around them the simultaneously submissive and ruthless. Central planning would bring forth leaders who took power not as a necessary evil, but as an end in itself.

Sovereign. Deadly. Perfect.

When you realize you're essentially you're God, there ain't nothing on earth more powerful than you, you can do anything you want.

A nation of slaves is always prepared to applaud the clemency of their master who, in the abuse of absolute power, does not proceed to the last extremes of injustice and oppression.

All power is His and within His command.

Oh, if only I could be President and Congress, too, just for ten minutes.

In every political community there must be one supreme, irresistible, absolute, uncontrolled, authority.

What is a constitution? It is a booklet with twelve or ten pages. I can tear them away and say that tomorrow we shall live under a different system. Today, the people will follow wherever I lead. All the politicians including the once mighty Mr. Bhutto will follow me with tails wagging.

Every one with this writ may be a tyrant; if this commission be legal, a tyrant in a legal manner, also, may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm.

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart. For we can win a man's heart one day and lose it the next. But when we break a proud spirit we achieve something that is final and absolute.

Tremble, ye tyrants, for ye can not die.

Being God would be the ultimate.

Whatever standards we use to take his measure … to him will fall the glory of being the greatest criminal in history…. He was methodical, all-embracing, and total as a criminal. He was one of those terrible dogmatists capable of destroying nine-tenths of the human race to ‘make happy’ the other tenth.

When absolute control and rigid obedience pose as love within the family and the local faith-community , we produce trained cowards rather than Christian persons.

The royal confessor was ex officio a member of the Council of State, and under a weak monarch his influence was almost unbounded.

If the God you believe in is not a sovereign God, then you really don't believe in God.