“He who controls the spice controls the universe.”

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”

“Those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future.”

“Weak is he who permits his thoughts to control his actions; strong is he who forces his actions to control his thoughts.”

“person who cannot control his words shows that he cannot control himself, and is unworthy of respect.”

“he who feeds you, controls you”

“He who angers you, controls you.”

“He took control of Egypt. And he really took control of it.”

“Man's need of self-esteem entails the need for a sense of control over reality – but no control is possible in a universe which, by one's own concession, contains the supernatural, the miraculous and the causeless, a universe in which one is at the mercy of ghosts and demons, in which one must deal, not with the unknown, but with the unknowable; no control is possible if man proposes, but a ghost disposes; no control is possible if the universe is a haunted house.”

“Parents control their children in the interests of the family, universities exercise control over professors and students, government exercises control over citizens, and religions control their adherents… Society's need for social control was stated most dramatically by Hobbes (1651/1958), who observed that in the "natural" state (without social control), as each person attempted to satisfy his/her individual needs and desires at the expense of others, humankind would be in a war of all against all, such that life would be "nasty, brutish, and short."”