Quotes About Control

Few men can afford to be angry.

If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson

You don't ask a man, 'Do you want to be in control [of your job]?' You assume he wants control. Why would a woman be any different?

The middle man governs, however extreme may seem to be the men who sit on the Front Bench, in their reactionary or revolutionary opinions.

If there is no God, then man sometimes thinks he is god, and sometimes tries to live like a god.

Names have power. In certain cultures, just speaking a man's name gives you mastery over him.

Madness ends sometimes. The Gods decree it, not man.

It's to me one simple rule. Who imposes his will on the other man?

A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.

Man can be scientifically manipulated.

Unfortunately, however, power is sweet, and the man who in the beginning seeks power merely in order to have scope for his benevolence is likely, before long, to love the power for its own sake.

How can the life of such a man be in the palm of some fools hand?

Children like yourselves are full of magic, but the men have turned, they've lost their magic to the fear and hatred they harbor for all that they can't explain, control, or understand.

That's what being a front man is all about - the idea of having something supple underneath you, that machine that roars and can turn on a dime.

Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living.

For the power of Man to make himself what he pleases means... the power of some men to make other men what THEY please.

Each new power won by man is a power over man as well. Each advance leaves him weaker as well as stronger.

Ikebana is meant to mimic life in the way it develops; it shouldn't look like it's under the control of man.

The real butches are straight ... dealing with and controlling men makes you stronger.

When a woman marries she belongs to another man; and when she belongs to another man there is nothing more you can say to her.

A man's just gotta know his limits.

Censors are dead men set up to judge between life and death. For no live, sunny man would be a censor, he'd just laugh.

Men live in glad obedience to the masters they believe in, or they live in a frictional opposition to the master they wish to undermine.

But of all the animals, man holds the fate of the world in his hands.