Quotes About Control

I'm like a shark, right at the top of the food chain. I take what I want, when I want. I truly am the reflection of perfection.

I didn't expect to see Kim, but I'm gonna be professional when I really just want to sock her in the face

Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.

Well, I'm kinda like George Carlin. I think that there ought to be a time where everybody should have all the drugs they want and there'd be nobody in charge, sort of like... now!

Macho men, without their grief, must find a way to gain power and control over their environment. They have a unique way of rationalizing and justifying their behavior and violations of others

When ministers wield absolute authority, everyone loses, even God.

When we are confronted with the knowledge that our life isn't under our control, we have a choice. We can continue in denial and self-righteousness, or we can face the fact that we have been blind to some important issues. If we become willing to be led into recovery and into a whole new way of life, we will find true power.

Knowing God yields wonderful results, under the guidance and control of the Holy Spirit.

When we have an out-of-control appetite for food, it signals that we have put that appetite above its rightful place as a necessary and God-given function.

Letting go is recognizing when your need to control is controlling you and choosing to release control.

In a toxic-faith system, loyalty is equated with blind faith and complete agreement with the leader.

Only by using a 'structured means of control' can an organization convert high-cost controls into business-assuring, profit-enhancing control.

he looked forward to the day when all men could free themselves from the "tyrant of spirits," when all appetites would be controlled, all passions subdued, and "mind, all conquering mind," would rule the world.

The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

Ironically, the more we crave to possess and dominate the world and others, the deeper and more unbearable becomes the chasm of our own emptiness.

Budgets were originally designed as control mechanisms. As such they are traps …

In China," he said, "we can criticize Darwin, but not the government. In America, you can criticize the government, but not Darwin.

It was Voltaire who said that 'in a government, you need both shepherds and butchers.' The problem in France was that the butchers kept killing the shepherds, while the sheep turned cannibal.

Here's an easy way to figure out if you're in a cult: If you're wondering whether you're in a cult, the answer is yes.

A government that loses, or forfeits, the consent of the governed is doomed. Invariably. Inevitably. Irreversibly

China into something resembling a free-market autocracy.

For the sake of God, boy, let go of all this obsessive worry and fretting. You are powerless over such a mess." (Quote from Father Bede)

Willpower is the caveman approach to life.

The mantra becomes" M. K. Gandhi. Self Restraint v. Self-Indulgence. Navajivan Publishing, 1947