Quotes About Control

T]hose who are always trying to control everything and eliminate all uncertainties are miserable. For they are fighting against nature. On the other hand, those who come to accept uncertainties as inevitable live lives of peace.

O]ur existential anxiety originates not from the objective state of reality but from our inflated expectations. The main problem is the discrepancy between our belief that we can handle everything by ourselves and the fact that, as mortals, we have several limitations. Unaware of this, we try to do the impossible: to control the uncontrollable, to predict the unpredictable, to hold on to the impermanent, and to secure the unsecurable. This illusion of omnipotence becomes our torture.

Charlotte's face paled. She was already scared as a prisoner of war. Now she knew where she had been taken. She was in the Draco Galaxy. The galaxy controlled by Dunge Katorsay. The leader of the intergalactic rebellion.

the ultimate purpose of the treaties was not fairness and equity but control and containment that enabled white settlement to continue unrestricted and unabated, all legal and extralegal measures necessary to ensure this had to be taken. If bribes had to be offered, lies told, or conditions abrogated in order to meet changing circumstances or to overcome Indian obstinacy, so be it. If

It's hardly in a body's pow'r, To keep, at times, frae being sour.

Is Control controlled by its need to control? Answer: yes.

Brainwashing, psychotropic drugs, lobotomy, and other more subtle form of psychosurgery; the technocratic control apparatus of the United States has at its fingertips new techniques if which fully exploited could make Orwell's 1984 seem like a benevolent utopia.

The fear of some divine and supreme powers, keeps men in obedience.

A dictatorship would be a lot easier ... so long as I'm the dictator.

They want the federal government controlling Social Security, like it's some kind of federal program.

You make yourself go to sleep. You just tell yourself it's a dream.

Sometimes, one must become a master to avoid becoming a slave.

To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.

We live by the Golden Rule. Those who have the gold make the rules.

Our government has found that the most effective way to control a person is not by the ballot or the bullet, but rather by the 'bucket'. Today, in a country that fought a revolution to rid itself of a repressive government and excessive taxes, government takes 40 percent of everything we earn in the form of taxes.

When we think we lead, we are most led.

Accursed be the city where the laws would stifle nature's!

So, even though your symptoms, at times, may feel all encompassing and completely out of your control, your awareness inserts a new variable, and with it comes the potential for change.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it. The pains of power are real; its pleasures imaginary.

Don't let your emotional life be controlled by the sin you see in others.

In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

There are two kinds of people those who say to God, Thy will be done, and those to whom God says, All right, then, have it your way.