Quotes About Control

There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters

Technological possibilities are irresistible to man. If man can go to the moon, he will. If he can control the climate, he will.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.

For I have dipped my hands in muddied waters, and, withdrawing them, find 'tis better to be a commander than a common man!

Every man if he so desires becomes sculptor of his own brain.

We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a hotel door, simply because he has a drum major's uniform on.

First of all, never play macho man with the market. Second, never overtrade.

A state which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes--will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.

A man should control his life. Mine is controlling me.

In a calm sea every man is a pilot.

Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king, and a king ain't satisfied until he rules everything.

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.

Ken Lay has, does and will continue to accept responsibility for the fall of Enron. He was the man at the controls. But failure is not a crime.

The best way to manipulate a man is to make him think he is manipulating you.

Man is more powerful than matter.

Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.

I have not come into this world to make men better, but to make use of their weaknesses.

The passions of men are commonly more potent than their reason.

God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.

Democracy virtually assures that only bad and dangerous men will ever rise to the top of government.

We are either kings or pawns of men

Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives' tales as to what is to become of him afterward, and you have hooked a fish, a mental slave.

A man who causes fear cannot be free from fear.