Controlled Quotes
666 quotes by 573 authors
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We are specifically keeping the best and brightest out. It is the dumb and dumbest that we are letting in. Let me rephrase that: It…
— Rush Limbaugh
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But in marketing, the familiar is everything, and that is controlled by the studio. That is reaching its apogee now.
— Nicolas Roeg
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The tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state-controlled police and military are the weapons of dictatorship. The rifle is the weapon of democracy. Not for…
— Edward Abbey
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Once wide coercive powers are given to governmental agencies for particular purposes, such powers cannot be effectively controlled by democratic assemblies.
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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Yeah, I'm going to need a leather jacket for when I'm on my hog and need to go into a controlled slide.
— George Michael
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I do feel that evolution is being controlled by some sort of divine engineer. I can't help thinking that. And this engineer knows exactly what…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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In working class districts, you had several families living together in the one house, and it was very difficult to get a house, because the…
— John Hume
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Is globalization about 'the eradication of world poverty,' or is it a mutant variety of colonialism, remote controlled and digitally operated?
— Arundhati Roy
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To say that... behaviors have different 'meanings' is only another way of saying that they are controlled by different variables.
— B.F. Skinner
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Persisting social crisis, the emergence of a charismatic personality, and the exploitation of mass media to obtain public confidence would be the steppingstones in the…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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More directly linked to the impact of technology, it involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled and directed society. Such a society would be…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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We, the Black masses, don't want these leaders who seek our support coming to us representing a certain political party. They must come to us…
— Malcolm X
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And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations
— Brian De Palma
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Mr Bush, Mr. Blair and now Mr Brown's sense of human rights precludes our people's right to their God-given resources, which in their view must…
— Robert Mugabe
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My ego is controlled enough that I don't have to be the focus.
— Herbie Mann
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One of the keys to thinking big is total focus. I think of it almost as a controlled neurosis, which is a quality I've noticed…
— Donald Trump
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I feel the best way to ensure Americans' freedom is to tighten restrictions on that freedom in any way possible. Only through wiretaps, illegal searches…
— John Ashcroft
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Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness. If men and women practiced mental calisthenics as…
— Arnold Bennett
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My work in those years was essentially of a propagandist nature. I was too young and unknown to play a part in the leading circles…
— Nahum Goldmann
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Who Wrote These Controlled Quotes
573 authors contributed a total of 666 Controlled Quotes, led by these top contributors: