Quotes About Control

Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.

Although he may not always recognize his bondage, modern man lives under a tyranny of numbers.

You cannot of yourself move your arm or alter your position, situation, posture, do to other men good or evil, or effect the least change in the world.

Although a man may have no jurisdiction over the fact of his existence, he can hold supreme command over the meaning of existence for him.

Man proposes, God disposes.

Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man.

To say that God's sovereignty is limited by man's freedom is to make man sovereign.

Man is always exploited through fear.

He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy, or demon who possesses such power as that.

If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential.

Violence begets violence, and then you get leaders who are violent men. And you don't want that.

The natural impulse of men is to follow and whoever has the strongest sense of purpose will always dominate.

To control and enslave the minds of men, all one must do is convince them that a secret exists, and that he is privy to information regarding that secret; hence the power of priests and psychics.

I was angry but not at God. I feel that you are closer to God when you are messed up. Definitely. That's when you most need God, and God cannot control what man does.

What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?

Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.

Many a man's tongue broke his nose.

When a man curls his lip, when he uses ridicule, when he grows angry, you have touched a raw nerve in domination.

Men are intrigued by anything they do not completly control.

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.

When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]

Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world.

The strong man wants to be allowed to DO; the little man wants to stop him.

What such a man needs is not courage but nerve control, cool headedness. This he can get only by practice.