Quotes About Control

The less power a man has, the more he likes to use it.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.

A resolution that is communicated is no longer within thy power; thy attentions become now the plaything of chance; he who would have his commands certainly carried out must take man by surprise.

The new and terrible dangers which man has created can only be controlled by man.

When a man gets power, even his chickens and dogs rise to heaven.

The mark of a man is one who knows he can' control his circumstances - but he can control his responses.

When man decides he can control nature, he's in deep trouble

The Romans believed that what no man controls, no man can own. Justinian, writing in the sixth century AD, said that the air, flowing water, the sea and the seashore were common to all.

The Christian in me says it's wrong, but the corrections officer in me says, 'I love to make a grown man piss himself.'

That man does not possess his estate, but his estate possesses him.

Mack Bolan was simply a man who could command himself.

Images, the visual power of present-day capitalism, like the ritual constructions of ancient Egypt, are refined ways of inhibiting and crushing man.

In the hands of vicious men, a mob will do anything. But under good leaders it's quite a different story.

A man doesn't have vacation problems: his boss tells him when to take them, and his wife tells him where.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger... Let a man overcome anger by love.

Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.

There is only one sort of discipline - PERFECT DISCIPLINE. Men cannot have good battle discipline and poor administrative discipline.

Men in England are ruled, at this minute by the clock, by brutes who refuse them bread, by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern, and therefore wish to enslave.

Few men who have liberated themselves from the fear of God and the fear of death are yet able to liberate themselves from the fear of man.

But if we judge only those things which are in our power to be good or bad, there remains no reason either for finding fault with God or standing in a hostile attitude to man.

A man can reach into anything and turn it to his cause. It's not want, or desire, just certainty. Only be assured that whatever you reach into will reach into you in turn.

I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him.

The anger of a meek man is like fire struck out of steel, hard to be got out, and when it is, soon gone.