Controlling Power Quotes
- Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there… — Edmund Burke
- Idiots must stop claiming that atheism is a religion. Religion is defined as the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power. And atheism… — Bill Maher
- Each atom is trying to fly off from its centre. In the internal world, each thought is trying to go beyond control. Again each particle… — Swami Vivekananda
- Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…in proportion as they are more… — Edmund Burke
- Love is giving up control. It’s surrendering the desire to control the other person. The two—love and controlling power over the other person—are mutually exclusive.… — Rob Bell
- Religion is defined as belief in and worship of a controlling power and atheism is precisely not that. — Bill Maher