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Quotes About Control

Human sexuality has been regulated and shaped by men to serve men's needs.
~ Ana Castillo
A government is the most dangerous threat to man
~ Ayn Rand
The laws can't be enforced against the man who is the laws' master.
~ Benvenuto Cellini
Never touch another man's button.
~ Blake Shelton
The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.
~ Branch Rickey
When you've got your man down, rub him out.
~ Rod Laver
A man can no more make a safe use of wealth without reason than he can of a horse without a bridle.
~ Socrates
As soon as we react, we become slaves. A man blames me, and I immediately react in the form of anger. A little vibration which he created made me a slave.
~ Swami Vivekananda
A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
~ Herodotus
The ideal citizen of a tyrannical state is the man or woman who bows in silent obedience in exchange for the status of a well-cared-for herd animal. Thinking people become the tyrants' worst enemies.
~ Claire Wolfe
That sinister Stonehenge of economic man, Rockefeller Center.
~ Cyril Connolly
Men's reproduction isn't regulated by the state -- and it shouldn't be. Neither should women's.
~ Faye Wattleton
The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.
~ Lord Acton
Man marks the earth with ruin - his control stops with the shore.
~ Lord Byron
An angry man is unfit to pray.
~ Nachman of Breslov
The man of control lives in choice, and the man of understanding lives in choicelessness.
~ Rajneesh
If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none.
~ Ray Bradbury
We must win rulers; political, economic, scientific, artistic personalities. They are the engineers of souls. They mold the souls of men. Winning them, you win the people they lead and influence.
~ Richard Wurmbrand
Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
~ George William Curtis
The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.
~ Ayn Rand
We want to be in control of our lives. Whether we are jungle fighters, craftsmen, company men, gamesmen, we want to be in control. And when the government erodes that control, we are not comfortable.
~ Barbara Jordan
Men are especially intolerant of serving and being ruled by, their equals.
~ Baruch Spinoza
If a man owns land, the land owns him.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson