Excessive Control Quotes

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.

Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

I'm pretty OCD. I like to fine-tune every single detail. I think that's a habit built maybe from me being OCD.

In no place, even Paris, was the social part of the government carried to such excess.

This country is being managed to death, being public related to death.

The least practicable measure of government must be the best. Anything beyond the minimum must be oppression.

Most nanny-state initiatives begin on a local level.

Nothing destroyeth authority so much as the unequal and untimely interchange of power pressed too far, and relaxed too much.

The World Is Too Much Governed

There's no business that's too small for government to torture

We'll always have bureaucracies, but bureaucracies led by bureaucrats might be too much of a bad thing.

Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.

Authority is God ordained, but authoritarianism and raw power, in almost all forms, is dangerous.

I am quite obsessive by nature.

They're on you day and night. Their oversight is just too extreme [. . .] That's why our 10-year loan, we paid it back in three years. We couldn't stand the government. The bureaucracy kills you.

That's the danger of having too much success. You lose that magic, that feeling of not being in control, which I feel now, it's too controlled.

Kafka would surely have been impressed by the twin ambitions of the modern empathetic state: the need to set up hyper-regulatory bodies preventing you from doing anything yourself, while simultaneously endowing lavish pseudo-agencies to hand out leaflets listing a 1-800 number you can dial to order more leaflets.

It is the nature of tyranny and rapacity never to learn moderation from the ill-success of first oppressions; on the contrary, all oppressors, all men thinking highly of the methods dictated by their nature, attribute the frustration of their desires to the want of sufficient rigor.

We're so structured and micromanaged, this isn't a world anymore, it's a damn cruise ship.

I believe that the federal government, like a raging river, has expanded upon the barriers and the boundaries of its banks, and unfortunately, it is flooding all of America with its encroachment.

I'm the most organised person in the world. Apparently, I'm just like Monica from 'Friends' because I am hyper, hyper organised. It's probably bordering on OCD.

Protect everything, detect everything, contain everything - obsessional society. Save time. Save money. Save our souls - phobic society. Low tar. Low energy. Low calories. Low sex. Low speed - anorexic society.

A system under which it takes three men to check what one is doing is not control; it is systematic strangulation.