be controlled by

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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 be controlled by their kith and kin. I am termed dictator because I have rejected this supremacist view and frustrated the neo-colonialists. Robert Mugabe

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do. Heraclitus

We have at least 12 security apparatuses that cannot be controlled by anybody. Mahmoud Abbas

Governments can be democratic or not, more or less corrupt, but they will still pursue the same basic goals, and they will still be controlled by an elite. Government by its very nature concentrates power and excludes people from making decisions over their own lives. Peter Gelderloos

Until you can ignore your circumstances, and just do as you promise," he says, "you'll always be controlled by the world. Chuck Palahniuk

A good man may be controlled by his wife, while lesser man dominates his. Somali Proverb

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