Quotes About Control

I'm not afraid of computers taking over the world.

I'm not afraid of computers taking over the world. They're just sitting there. I can hit them with a two-by-four.

Man proposes, but God disposes.

No man ruleth safely but he that is willingly ruled.

Remember, your prerogative is to govern, and not to serve the things of this world.

Who hath a harder battle to fight than he who striveth for self-mastery?

Homo proponit, sed Deus disponit

The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.

Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out of our hearts.

when Latin crusading armies arrived in the Near East to wage what essentially were frontier wars, they were not actually invading the heartlands of Islam. Instead, they were fighting for control of a land that, in some respects, was also a Muslim frontier

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.

The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.

The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest of human creature that walks.

Then I am fundamentally a slave, I whom you call the most glorious king of all?" said Arthur. "No man is free who needeth air to breathe," said Merlin.

People keep a dog and are ruled by this dog, and even Schopenhauer was ruled in the end not by his head, but by his dog. This fact is more depressing than any other.

His argument runs like this: there is no goodness without free will. Without the ability to freely choose-or reject-the good, an individual possesses no control over his own soul, and without that control, there is not possibility of attaining grace. In the language of Christianity, a beliver cannot be saved unless the choice to follow Christ is freely made, unless the option not to follow him genuinely exists. Compelled belief is no belief at all.

Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.

Fire is the best of servants; but what a master!

The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.

Not our logical faculty, but our imaginative one is king over us. I might say, priest and prophet to lead us to heaven-ward, or magician and wizard to lead us hellward.

Any the smallest alteration of my silent daily habits produces anarchy in me

Such I hold to be the genuine use of Gunpowder: that it makes all men tall.

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