Quotes About Control

The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.

Some must follow and some command, through all are made oclay.

Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements, the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness.

Anger, which, far sweeter than trickling drops of honey, rises in the bosom of a man like smoke.

Men's happiness or misery is [for the] most part of their own making.

God laughs at men's plans.

Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.

Who owns a man, Durnik?" the blond young man asked sadly. "The one who rules him, or the one who pays him?

Absolute power turns its possessors not into a God but an anti-God. For God turned clay into men, while the absolute despot turns men into clay.

History is full of the dead weight of things which have escaped the control of the mind, yet drive man on with a blind force.

No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

Experience has taught us that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good without the intervention of a coercive power.

So utterly at variance is Destiny with all the little plans of men.

It is evident that youth is the first victim of the trend toward bureaucratization. The young men are deprived of any opportunity to shape their own fate.

Control over a woman is the only form of dominance most men possess, for most men are merely subjects of more powerful men.

No man can be stronger than his destiny.

Remove the document—and you remove the man.

People must not think that all bad in man which is unleashed, the moment you impose censorship disappears from man.

Men are ruled by toys.

We certainly have at present the dismal situation that the most imaginative men are directed by a group, the top managers, who are among the least.

Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.

You see, after all, few rich men own their property. The property owns them.

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.