Quotes About Control

Man must conquer nature.

The Left is totalitarian in its nature

In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.

For all Nature is as one Great Engine, made by, and held in His Hand.

You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.

Having rationally endeavored to control nature, is he not now becoming the slave of the objects which he makes?

The commonest objection to birth control is that it is against nature.

You think human nature is a beast, that it must be put in a cage. But it's the cage that makes the animal bad.

It's misogynistic in nature to try and control a woman's sexual presentation of self. I consider this an issue that is bigger than (one) film.

We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so.

He that by harshness of nature rules his family with an iron hand is as truly a tyrant as he who misgoverns a nation.

There is a Destiny which has the control of our actions, not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of Human Nature.

He left it in thy power, ordaind thy will By nature free, not over-rul'd by Fate Inextricable, or strict necessity.

I have always hated flying. The idea of it is an affront to nature. People are meant to stay on the ground.

Accursed be the city where the laws would stifle nature's!

But without humans, the wild would take over. It would only take a hundred years or so for nature to win again.

The controlling Intelligence understands its own nature, and what it does, and whereon it works.

Americans are nature-lovers: but they only admit of nature proofed and corrected by man.

Nothing in the many processes of Nature, whether she deals with men or with things, comes by chance or accident or is really at the mercy of external causes.

We are slaves in the hands of nature - slaves to a bit of bread, slaves to praise, slaves to blame, slaves to wife, to husband, to child, slaves to everything.

What human beings seek to learn from nature is how to use it to dominate wholly both it and human beings. Nothing else counts.

Of the gods we believe, and of men we know, that by a necessary law of their nature they rule wherever they can.

The drive for control, or the perception thereof, is truly the strongest force in human nature.

We have two natures within us, both struggling for mastery. Which one will dominate us? It depends on which one we feed.