Quotes About Control

Tis hard to fight with anger but the prudent man keeps it under control.

Faber est suae quisque fortunae. Each man is the architect of his own fate.

The kind of man who demands that government enforce his ideas is always the kind whose ideas are idiotic.

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.

History clearly demonstrates that governing is a task that exceeds man's ability.

There must be an authority, and we believe that the most qualified authority in a household is the man's.

What a man's mind can create, man's character can control.

The progressive development of man [has as its] ultimate purpose the complete mastery of mind over the material world.

I guess this is why I hate governments, all governments. It is always the rule, the fine print, carried out by fine-print men. There's nothing to fight, no wall to hammer with frustrated fists.

Every man is the author of his own life.

The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.

Throughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man's liberty.

My political opinions lean more and more to Anarchy (philosophically understood, meaning abolition of control not whiskered men with bombs).

Is anarchism desirable? Well, who does not seek freedom? What man, unless willing to declare himself in bondage, would care to call any control agreeable? Think about it!

However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.

He who ruled scent ruled the hearts of men.

What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.

I can frighten or buy ninety-nine out of every one hundred men.

One man, one horse, one holocaust on demand.

I am a man who likes to control things, and if I can't control them totally I will not control them at all.

It is ironic to think that man might determine his own future by something so seemingly trivial as the choice of an insect spray.

A man must first govern himself ere he is fit to govern a family; and his family ere he be fit to bear the government of the commonwealth.

Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.

Too many women have given up the power over the years because men have created the terms.