Quotes About Control

Stern social measures had to be adopted to keep entire populations from disintegrating in an orgy of plenty.

The ability to expend energy, especially in the form of other people's labour, in non-utilitarian ways, is the most basic and universally understood symbol of power.

I have some anger issues.

While human government exists the tendency to abuse power will remain.

Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst.

Sometimes power is all a person has, so they will protect it even unto their own destruction, for without power they have nothing.

When you surrender and release the illusion of control, you begin to free-fall toward your destiny of a grand reunion with your original-self; a self uncorrupted by the worlds false lessons of fear and control.

Love heals violence and all its sources. Love only serves and does not calculate. Love gives without expectation, while hate carries an endless tally of debts. Hate controls everything it touches, but love sets everything it touches free.

Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.

Slaves are created with words, and so it is with words that we create, and set ourselves free.

The real violence is committed in the writing of history, the records of the legal system, the reporting of news, through the manipulation of social contracts, and the control of information.

Discovery requires courage and acceptance that we are not in control, and that the future is uncertain.

Evolve your understanding of success from the outer realm of control, materialism, and ego, to the inner realm of surrender, spirituality, and compassion.

Today nearly two billion people on earth may host the tuberculosis bacterium. Over the next decade, ninety million will develop active TB. Eventually thirty million will die. Tuberculosis, once the most Romantic of illnesses, is now the deadliest disease on earth. Controlling the bacterium is the twenty-first century's greatest public health challenge.

Their politics are an opiate to prevent folk thinking.

There is no greater folly than to try to control that which is beyond our control.

Gentle in what you do, Firm in how you do it

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Living with a conscience is like driving a car with the brakes on.

Going through life with a conscience is like driving your car with the brakes on.

There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

As the flectcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood.