"Liberty is the prevention of control by others."

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"Liberty is the prevention of control by others."

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"You may not have the power to control whatever happens to you, but you have the power to stop it from affecting your sense of style."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"I tell myself that with enough effort, I can control my feelings."

Colleen Hoover, American Celebrity

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"Discipline is required in all human endeavours."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection."

George Eliot, British Author

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"You are the actor, director, producer, and scriptwriter of the play called 'Your Life' and you can change the play anytime."

Mensah Oteh, Nigerian Author

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"He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing."

Frank Herbert, American Writer

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"Do not allow your sad past to rule your present situation. Unlike a tango, it does not take to two to forgive."

Stephen Richards, British Author

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"No, and I never, ever eat in between the meals. I control it well enough and with no pills, and I sleep seven hours a night. I go to bed. I fall asleep, and I wake up seven hours later, and this is the most important."

Karl Lagerfeld, German Designer

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"It is sad, people what to control others. But they have not learned to know their soul."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"You cannot control anything except your thoughts. With yoga, you do not control yourself but you harmonize with nature."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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Explore more quotes by John Acton

"The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities."

Nation

"Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety from all hindrances, even sin. So that Liberty ends by being Free Will."

Being

"By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the action of Time and the verdict of success, and to rescue the world from the reign of the dead."

Time

"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

Power

"By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion."

Authority

"Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country."

Family

"If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation."

Knowledge

"Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin."

Nature

"The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition."

Government

"The greatest men, you can quote for everything."

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