Quotes About Control

The gods confound the man who first found out How to distinguish hours! Confound him, too, Who in this place set up a sun-dial, To cut and hack my days so wretchedly Into small portions.

See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout.

A man must keep an eye on his servants, if he would not have them rule him.

Man,--the aristocrat amongst the animals.

The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.

A man must feel he runs things, but as long as you control yourself, you control him.

Science brings to the light of day everything man had believed sacred. Technique takes possession of it and enslaves it.

I am terrified of restrictive religious doctrine, having learned from history that when men who adhere to any form of it are in control, common men like me are in peril.

A rigged convention is one with the other man's delegates in control. An open convention is when your delegates are in control.

Gods are nothing without their worshipers; they act on the affairs and the passions of men.

So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.

Things and men have always a certain sense, a certain side by which they must be got hold of if one wants to obtain a solid grasp and a perfect command.

Guilt, the poor man's mind control.

I do destroy men on a weekly basis. It's like a hobby. I'm like a praying mantis.

It is not difficult to censor foreign news. What is difficult today is to censor one's own thoughts, To sit by and see the blind man On the sightless horse, riding into the bottomless abyss.

Anger is like an intoxicant; it reduces man and degrades him to the level of an animal.

Every man is a prisoner, and the greatest irony of all is to be the prisoner of another man.

All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.

Man can become like God and acquire control over the whole universe if he multiplies infinitely his centre of self-consciousness.

Two things control man's character; Strength and Pity

For man plans, but God arranges.

No man ruleth safely but he that is willingly ruled.

Men had better be without education than be educated by their rulers.

When a man angers you, he conquers you.