Quotes About Control

I'm riding you with a slack rein, my pet, but don't forget that I'm riding with curb and spurs just the same.

Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.

A cult is a religion with no political power.

It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous -- even death is terrible only if we fear it.

The spontaneous reproduction of superimposed needs by the individual does not establish autonomy; it only testifies to the efficacy of the control.

The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.

For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere

There are two conflicting philosophies that I love: "Everything happens for a reason," as well as "you can change everything that you have control over."

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.

I am the captain of my pain.

My pitching philosophy is simple. I believe in getting the ball over the plate and not walking a lot of men.

All things in the world of Nature are not controlled by Fate for the soul has a principle of its own.

Language was not given to man: he seized it.

Anarchism as a political philosophy seeks to dissolve all forms of authority and power, and if possible, wishes their complete abolition.

The better organized the state, the duller its humanity.

Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?

Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?

Statism ends with an eye roll.

I lost my power in the world because I did not use it.

The fork is the most powerful tool ever placed in our hands.