Quotes About Control

All authority belongs to the people... In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief with chains of the Constitution.

No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad ones the former only. If our government ever fails, it will be from this weakness.

A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform... therefore a whole army is afraid of one man.

Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.

Give a man enough rope and he'll wrap himself around your little finger.

If men don't have to be aggressive in order to be accepted, women won't feel compelled to be submissive. If men don't have to control, women won't have to be controlled.

Man proposes, woman forecloses.

There are two classes of men; those who are content to yield to circumstances and who play whist; those who aim to control circumstances, and who play Chess

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

Men knew that if they devirginized a woman, they could end up dead within twenty-four hours. These controls have been removed.

Everything is a slave of something else: Clouds, of the winds; men, of the desires; universe, of the chaos; shadows, of the light.

If once a man delays castling and his king remains in the center, files will open up against him, bishops sweep the board, rooks will dominate the seventh rank, and pawns turn into queens.

You never get an angry man suddenly breaking into a whistle.

No one can control his emotion of love for a woman ... the sentiment he feels, I mean, but the strong man controls the demonstration.

Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

And not only did this great consolidated ecclesiasticism assume to lord it over men's earthly treasures, but they lorded it over men's minds, prescribing what men should think and read and write.

The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.

Thinking men cannot be ruled; ambitious men do not stagnate.

All men would be tyrants if they could.

Meekness is the mark of a man who has been mastered by God.

Man is a natural polygamist: he always has one woman leading him by the nose, and another hanging on to his coattails.

Propaganda does not aim to elevate man, but to make him serve.