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Quotes About Control

But the valid issue is the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Man hath weaved out a net, and this net throwne upon the Heavens, and now they are his own.
~ John Donne
Man becomes virtually an automaton in the loss of his individuality and responsibility. He is the harp of a thousand strings played upon by a divine hand, but not a man!
~ John Grier Hibben
The common man is impelled and controlled by interests; the superior, by ideas.
~ John Lancaster Spalding
It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.
~ John Maynard Keynes
Slave girls on Gor address all free men as Master, though, of course only one such would be her true Master.
~ John Norman
When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out.
~ Erma Bombeck
I have the same goal I've had ever since I was a girl: I want to rule the world.
~ Madonna Ciccone
Nowadays they say you need a special chip to put in the TV so kids can't watch this and that. In my day, we didn't need a chip. My mom was the chip. End of story.
~ Ray Charles
They say that man is mighty, He governs land and sea, He wields a mighty sceptre, O'er lesser powers that be.
~ William Ross Wallace
My mom was definitely very strict with me.
~ Gloria Estefan
Well, my mom taught public school music for almost 40 years. And she's about 5 feet - and very mighty. And she would control her kids a lot by giving them the eye, or the stare.
~ Vanessa L. Williams
But you have to take control of your destiny. And sometimes that's not easy.
~ Mari Mancusi, Gamer Girl
If you cannot control your emotions, you cannot control your money.
~ Warren Buffett
Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws.
~ Mayer Amschel Rothschild
We have the best government that money can buy.
~ Mark Twain
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.
~ Groucho Marx
Money is a great servant but a bad master.
~ Francis Bacon
You must gain control over your money or the lack of it will forever control you.
~ Dave Ramsey
We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
Quality control which cannot show results is not quality control. Let us engage in QC which makes so much money for the company that we do not know what to do with it.
~ Kaoru Ishikawa
History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and it's issuance.
~ James Madison
To enslave a people, give them money they didn't earn.
~ James Cook