Quotes About Control

Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.

He that leaveth nothing to Chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it is best to let him run.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.

Somehow, when we no longer feel in control, we become available to deeper aliveness.

You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.

If you can't help it, don't think about it.

Be God or let God.

But I trusted in thee, O Lord; I said, Thou art my God. My times are in thy hand.

He who can lick can bite.

Americans have a special horror of letting things happen their own way, without interference. They would like to jump down their stomachs, digest the food, and shovel the shit out.

Fear is one thing. To let fear grab you and swing you around by the tail is another.

All authority belongs to the people.

Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

Beauty is potent but money is omnipotent.

The government is concerned about the population explosion, and the population is concerned about the government explosion.

We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domestic plants and animals, but rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.

Power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.

An institution is the lengthening shadow of one man.

Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a Congressman can.

Conscience reigns but it does not govern.