Quotes About Control

Mankind's ability to understand and control the forces of nature greatly exceeds our ability to govern ourselves

Isn't that weird, we've made nature against the law. That's how un-natural we've become.

Every social system is more or less against nature, and at every moment nature is at work to reclaim her rights.

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other.

If Nature is opposed, we will fight her and make her obbey us.

In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.

Prayer never changes the laws of nature.

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

Nature is under control but not disturbed.

Nature, not human activity, rules the climate.

Biotech and geo engineering have the same mindset, of engineering, of power, of control, of mastery of nature.

Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.

If we advert to the nature of republican government, we shall find that the censorial power is in the people over the government, and not in the government over the people.

There is nothing perhaps more adverse to nature and reason than to hold in obedience remote countries and foreign nations, in opposition to their inclination and interest.

Of course you cannot free yourself from the laws of nature; but the laws of nervous systems are not the same as the physical laws.

He who has conquered the internal nature controls the whole universe; it becomes his servant.

What the Court really has refused to recognize is the fundamental interest all individuals have in controlling the nature of their intimate associations.

By the very nature of government schooling, the matter of what goes into school textbooks must necessarily be a political matter, to be decided by those I political power.

My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature.

The imagination is man's power over nature.

If you have ever seen a four-year-old trying to lord it over a two-year-old, then you know what the basic problem of human nature is - and why government keeps growing larger and ever more intrusive.

It is human nature that rules the world, not governments and regimes.

Destiny is our will, and our will is nature.