Quotes About Control

Much that is natural, to the will must yield. Men manufacture both machine and soul, And use what they imperfectly control To dare a future from the taken routes.

The king is the man who can.

Man is now in charge of the thermostat for the globe.

The superstitious man is to the rogue what the slave is to the tyrant.

Without discipline a body of men becomes rabble. Rabble dies, either on the battlefield or in a POW camp.

Absolute discretion is a ruthless master. It is more destructive of freedom than any of man's other inventions.

It must not be forgotten that it is especially dangerous to enslave men in the minor details of life.

The prevailin' weakness of most public men is to Slop Over!.... G. Washington never slopt over.

The creator's concern is the conquest of nature. The parasite's concern is the conquest of men.

...if men are to be ruled, then the enemy is reason.

If you ride a horse, sit close and tight, if you ride a man, sit easy and light.

Good slaves are free, but bad free men are slaves of many passions.

In my opinion, any man who can afford to buy a newspaper should not be allowed to own one.

The rich is the one that rules over those of little means, and the borrower is servant to the man doing the lending.

What is the world coming to, with these modern women? A man can't tell them what to do.

Whoso has sixpence is sovereign (to the length of sixpence) over all men; commands cooks to feed him, philosophers to teach him, kings to mount guard over him,to the length of sixpence.

History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men.

A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.

Men will let you abuse them if only you will make them laugh.

Be it or be it not true that Man is shapen in iniquity and conceived in sin, it is unquestionably true that Government is begotten of aggression, and by aggression.

Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment.

The most favorable moment to seize a man and influence him is when he is alone in the mass. It is at this point that propaganda can be most effective.

It's a Man's Man's Man's World

Beware the anger of a patient man.