Quotes About Control

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

Happiness and health must be earned by absolute control of the emotional nature.

When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.

No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.

Don't allow your animal nature to rule your reason.

Television is by nature the dominator drug par excellence. Control of content, uniformity of content, repeatability of content make it inevitably a tool of coersion, brainwashing, and manipulation.

Emotional abuse is any type of abuse that is not physical in nature. It can include everything from verbal abuse to the silent treatment, domination to subtle manipulation.

If Nature is against us, we shall fight Nature and make it obey.

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.

One thing you cannot control is nature.

I am more and more convinced, of the propensity in human nature to tyranize over their fellow men.

You may command nature to the extent only in which you are willing to obey her.

Addiction is not something we can simply take care of by applying the proper remedy. For it is in the very nature of addiction to feed on our attempts to master it.

But I think the bomb instead constitutes merely a first step in a new control by man over the forces of nature too revolutionary and dangerous to fit into old concepts.

The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men, but rather their conqueror, an outlaw, who controls the sexual channels between nature and culture

The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.

Take possession of the air, submit the elements, penetrate the last redoubts of nature, make space retreat, make death retreat.

Our Western science, ever since the 17th century, has been obsessed with the notion of control, of man dominating nature. This obsession has led to disaster.

By their very nature bureaucracies have no conscience, no memory, and no mind.

Man is born to conquer nature and not to follow it.

The nature of the leadership spirit is the inherent desire of all mankind to control and regulate both environment and circumstance.

In most of our lives, we are accustomed to aiming at mastery and control and dominion- - over nature, over our lives, over our jobs, over our careers, over the goods that we buy.

The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.