Quotes About Control

Any man who can't control his thoughts can't control his actions, and any man who can't control his actions isn't safe in society.

Men like phones with lots of buttons. It makes them feel important.

All human behavior, all human motivations, all man's hopes and fears, were heavily colored and largely controlled by mankind's tragic and oddly beautiful pattern of reproduction.

An armed man need not fight.

A man in armour is his armour's slave.

A man in armor is his armor's slave.

Man plans. God laughs.

Repent, Harlequin," said the Ticktock Man. "Get stuffed," the Harlequin replied.

Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage.

Let no man imagine that he has no influence.

Nothing is orderly till man takes hold of it. Everything in creation lies around loose.

So long as a man-of-war exists, it must ever remain a picture of much that is tyrannical and repelling in human nature.

He thought of men like Hitler, Stalin, and Napoleon. All it took was a lot of seemingly decent people to put the wrong person in power and then fall under their spell.

Adding an overarching tier of tyrants - the EU - to European governments has benefited Europeans as a second hangman enhances the health of a condemned man.

A man with a club is a law-maker.

No technique is possible when men are free. Technique requires predictability and, no less, exactness of prediction. It is necessary, then, that technique prevail over the human being.

If men were angels, there would be no need of government.

It is possible that these may all be insufficient to control the caprice and wickedness of man. But are they not all that government will admit, and all that human prudence can devise?

Particularly fine is the top-heavy comedienne, Loni Anderson, as the receptionist whose movements turn men to stone...she keeps her head while all the men around her are losing theirs.

When Alexander had subdued the world, and wept that none were left to dispute his arms, his tears were an involuntary tribute to a monarchy that he knew not, man's empire over himself.

[Charles de Gaulle] has been abysmally careless, like a man running a bus over mountains, who forgot to equip it with good brakes.

I am not a businessman. I am a business, man.

Charles, mate, you fret too much. I'm a grown man, I am, and I can blood my handle." "Handle your blood?" Bones offered dryly. Ian grinned. "Exactly.

According to the virginity movement, men have no self-control when it comes to anything sexual.