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Quotes About Control

One man may as easily destroy, as govern: be King or Anti-King.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
God created women only to tame men.
~ Voltaire
Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be.
~ Walter Raleigh
I consider how little man is, yet, in his own mind, how great. He is lord and master of all things, yet scarce can command anything.
~ Edmund Burke
If you think you control things that are in the control of others, you will lament. You will be disturbed and you will blame both gods and men.
~ Epictetus
What we have in common is a mass men, a mass bureaucracy, and a manipulation of everyone to act smoothly, but with the illusion that he follows his own decisions and opinions.
~ Erich Fromm
Do not mistake the rule of force for true power. Men are not shaped by force.
~ Euripides
Man is the control experiment of heredity and environment; and since his heredity controls him, he tries to control his environment.
~ Evan Esar
A man often thinks he rules himself, when all the while he is ruled and managed; and while his understanding directs one design, his affections imperceptibly draw him into another.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Least of all shall we preserve democracy or foster its growth if all the power and most of the important decisions rest with an organization far too big for the common man to survey or comprehend.
~ Friedrich August von Hayek
The man that is dominated by Anger Doth not know what is seemly and seeth not the Law; That man whom Hate doth accompany, Becometh like unto murky darkness.
~ Gautama Buddha
Man Proposeth, God disposeth.
~ George Herbert
The laws of men are not infallible.
~ Wayne Gerard Trotman
They say we have we created the man to end all wars; I say we have created a man to end all worlds.
~ Alan Moore
Real fulfillment, for the man who allows absolutely free rein to his desires, and who much dominate everything, lies in hatred.
~ Albert Camus
It is only necessary to destroy in oneself the roots of those motives which determine a man's course, in order to enjoy the omnipotence and immunity of a god.
~ Aleister Crowley
Man is man, and master of his fate.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
The press gave me a voice too quickly, and that could have unsettled a man who had every right to feel he should be in control of the thing he had created.
~ Alison Moyet
Every heart is the lair of a ferocious animal. The greatest wrong that you can put upon a man is to provoke him to let out his beast.
~ Ambrose Bierce
The mind is fast emancipating itself from the dominion of man and of matter. It has let loose fearful forces on the world.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott
It has been the dream of very few men to rule the entire world. - Dr. Grief
~ Anthony Horowitz
A man can't do what he likes with his coverts.
~ Anthony Trollope
The whole force of the State is at your back if you should need it. I'm afraid that all the queen's horses and all the queen's men cannot avail in this matter.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
It may be a man's world, but men are easily controlled by women.
~ Ashly Lorenzana