Quotes About Control

Government is the greatest combination for forces known to human society. It can command more men and raise more money than any and all other agencies combined.

You can maintain power over people, as long as you give them something. Rob a man of everything, and that man will no longer be in your power.

It will be necessary for us to be a nation of men, and not laws.

The land was then covered with morasses and forests, which spread to a boundless extent, whenever man has ceased to exercise his dominion over the earth.

I have always seen cold and controlled men as the right ones for me.

To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.

But sometimes living in denial was the only way to keep a man from going on a killing spree.

Circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances.

Nothing happens to man without the permission of God.

Dogma is the convictions of one man imposed authoritatively upon others.

Action men are the unvoluntary slaves of wise men.

All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man.

Humility is often only a feigned submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a more calculated sort of pride.

The whole universe sat there, open to the man who could make the right decisions.

Many men go into the ministry not only for the power trip involved, but also so that they will never have to be interrupted or contradicted.

Society tames the wolf into a dog. And man is the most domesticated animal of all.

Men submit from habit to everything that seeks power.

What else is chance but the rude stone which receives its life from the sculptor's hand? Providence gives us chance, and man must mould it to his own designs.

Angels play a very active role in the purposes of God and the affairs of men, but do not control human events or violate the free will of human beings.

Men. One minute they have their tongues down your throat and the next they're forbidding you from meeting your own father and criticizing your fashion choices.

Husbands are an inferior class of men, who require keeping in order.

Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.

It is a maxim that man and wife should never have it in their power to hang one another.

Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man may be overturned.