Quotes About Control

The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.

Force and not opinion is the queen of the world; but it it opinion that uses the force.

When liberty destroys order, the hunger for order will destroy liberty.

I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.

Ownership is to fear (tener es temer)

Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness.

Give me that man That is not passion's slave.

There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness, and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that I have complete control.

Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.

Of a rich man who was mean and niggardly, he said, "That man does hot possess his estate, but his estate possesses him."

Possession, they say, is eleven points of the law.

There is no man in any rank who is always at liberty to act as he would incline. In some quarter or other he is limited by circumstances.

The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature.

Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own?

And pleas'd th' Almighty's orders to perform. Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.

Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.

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

It is impossible to control creation.

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.

Chance works for us when we are good captains.

You want to make God laugh? Tell him your future plans.

Repentance is but want of power to sin.

Big Brother is watching you.

At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power finally rests with the most abandoned.