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Quotes About Control

A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.
~ Granville Hicks
The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it.
~ John Steinbeck
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.
~ Pythagoras
A wise man who has the moment in his hand should not let that moment slip.
~ Louis Farrakhan
Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.
~ Harry S Truman
. . . man is just what he thinks himself to be . . . He will attract to himself what the thinks most about. He can learn to govern his own destiny when he learns to control his thoughts.
~ Ernest Holmes
For man is man and master of his fate.
~ Alfred the Great
It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.
~ Democritus
When one man says, "No, I won't," Rome begins to fear.
~ Dalton Trumbo
Free men have arms; slaves do not.
~ WILLIAM BLACKSTONE
Overall, white men run America. From nuclear armaments to the filth and jeopardy of New York City subways to the cruel mismanagement of health care, is there anything to boast about?
~ June Jordan
I need someone physically stronger than me.... I am always on top. It's really unfortunate. I am begging for the man that can put me on the bottom. Or the woman. Anybody that can take me down.
~ Angelina Jolie
It is no easy task to lead men. But it is easy enough to drive them.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
~ Martin Heidegger
Men are marked from the moment of birth to rule or be ruled.
~ Aristotle
A man is hid under his tongue.
~ Ali ibn Abi Talib
The man molds the idol and then the idol molds the man.
~ Adrian Rogers
The basis of the Juche Idea is that man is the master of all things and the decisive factor in everything.
~ Kim Il-sung
Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
There is no sin nor wrong that gives man such a foretaste of Hell in this life as anger and impatience.
~ St. Catherine of Siena
All middle men are bad.
~ Syd Barrett
The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
~ Thomas Carlyle
The first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make, provided that the machine is docile enough to tell us how to keep it under control.
~ Nick Bostrom
It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.
~ Walter Bagehot