Quotes About Control

A great step forward was made the day men understood that in order to torment one another more efficiently they would have to gather together, to organize themselves into a society

Man can be conditioned to behave in almost every desired way; but only "almost.

The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself.

The man who obeys is nearly always better than the man who commands.

From the cradle to the grave she is subject to the power and control of man. Father, guardian, or husband, one conveys her like some piece of merchandise over to the other.

A man who does not lose his reason over certain things has none to lose.

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

At various times during the last four thousand years God has asserted his rights and endeavoured to establish his own authority, his own laws, and his own government among the children of men

What is commonly called a pest is nature's way of bringing back into balance an imbalance that man has created.

Man thinks, God directs.

Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by them.

The words, gestures, and threats of our officers were thrown away upon men who had lost all presence of mind and only longed for absence of body.

There are men who would do anything, asleep, and I'm not sure what stops them when they wake. I do not know how they draw the line.

Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.

The weaker the man in authority... the stronger his insistence that all his privileges be acknowledged.

There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men.

When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.

Government remains the paramount area of folly because it is there that men seek power over others - only to lose it over themselves.

I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.

I see man more as an instrument or an agent more than anything else.

One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting everyone else to give it up.

Inanimate objects are harmless indeed, Mr. Mortmain. But one cannot always say the same of the men who use them.

Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

When a man once gets a start holding office, it is nearly always necessary to finally choke him off.