Quotes About Control

A lazy man's wife is generally the power behind the drone.

No man is truly free who is in financial bondage. 'Think what you do when you run in debt', said Benjamin Franklin, 'you give another power over your liberty.'

Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master.

The storm is master. Man, as a ball, is tossed twixt winds and billows.

When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.

All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.

What governs men is the fear of truth.

Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.

Neither living nor learning was good without order.

Knowledge—Zzzzzp! Money—Zzzzzp!—Power! That's the cycle democracy is built on!

Although some Western psychologies believe that the dreamer should not control the dream, according to Tibetan teachings this is a wrong view. It is better for the lucid and aware dreamer to control the dream than for the dreamer to be dreamed. The same is true with thoughts: it is better for the thinker to control the thoughts than for the thoughts to control the thinker.

When we think of an experience as "only a dream" it is less "real" to us. It loses power over us—power that it only had because we gave it power—and can no longer disturb us and drive us into negative emotional states.

When we think of an experience as "only a dream" it is less "real" to us. It loses power over us—power that it only had because we gave it power—and can no longer disturb us and drive us into negative emotional states. Instead, we begin to encounter all experience with greater calm and increased clarity, and even with greater appreciation

Too much liberty corrupts us all.

Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.

Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.

If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.

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.

souls without prayer are like people whose bodies or limbs are paralysed: they possess feet and hands but they cannot control them.

Writing about the futility of trying to force a wolf into a vehicle, Martino describes the final stage of the conflict. The italics are hers: "But if I continue, perhaps muttering 'Get up you lazy old dusty thing,' The wolf grabs my arm in his teeth, snarling, as if to say, Look, move me where I don't want to go, and we're going to have problems. Your problems will be bigger than mine. He then looks at me with a frank arresting stare, the strength of the mountain rumbling in his eyes.

He who controls the present, controls the pen that records the past and thus is the owner of the brush that paints the future.

The trouble with the scientific approach, thought the Brigadier, was that it left you at the mercy of your scientists.

In the world of boys and men you're either a winner or a loser, one up or one down in control or controlled, man enough or a girl.

As Freud noted: "A thing which has not been understood inevitably reappears; like an unlaid ghost, it cannot rest until the mystery has been resolved and the spell broken." . . . in ambivalent attachment, a mother vacillates inexplicably from being loving and tender to angry and threatening.. Faced with this unpredictable inconsistency, a child tries to appease the mother, anxious to control and monitor her shifting moods.