Quotes About Control

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government. That government is best which governs least.

No government ought to be without censors & where the press is free, no one ever will.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and governments to gain ground.

I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.

All of us have been through the process of being born and entering this world with three essential biological needs: security and survival, power and control, affection and esteem.

Power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don't

Sometimes tyrants do away with the necessity of satire by imposing absurdity themselves.

Where words prevail not, violence prevails; But gold doth more than either of them both.

Most people learn to save themselves by artificially limiting the content of consciousness.

We think, therefore we should make everyone think what we think.

An individual's demarcations as a being, not his trespass of them, create his identity and preserve his illusion of being something special and not a freak of chance, a product of blind mutations. Transcending all illusions and their emergent activities—having absolute control of what we are and not what we need to be so that we may survive the most unsavory facts of life and death—would untether us from the moorings of our self-limited selves.

Work with what you have control of and you'll have your hands full.

The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.

Everything is politics.

Quinn wanted to make her see that people didn't live like this; but what was the use. No one was going to get her away from Bird Man out there.

It is the body that possesses itself: Owning something means to be able to control it, and selfhood is intimately related to the very moment in which the body discovers that it can control itself—as a whole. It is exactly what happens when you wake up in the morning, when you "come to yourself.

Without time management, you lose control of your life and do what other people tell you to do. You lose control and become a puppet that everyone can control and manipulate.

Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

That government is best which governs least.

He prays dictatorially. When it is sunshine, he prays for rain, and when it is rain, he prays for sunshine. He follows the same idea in everything that he prays for; for what is the amount of all his prayers, but an attempt to make the Almighty change his mind, and act otherwise than he does? It is as if he were to say—- thou knowest not so well as I.

We still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry and grasping at the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised to furnish new pretenses for revenue and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without a tribute.

When the tongue or the pen is let loose in a frenzy of passion, it is the man, and not the subject, that becomes exhausted.