Quotes About Control

It is hard to learn that life cannot be controlled. Life's powerful and mysterious process goes on, no matter what we do. Life cannot be controlled because it is far too rich, spontaneous and rambunctious to be fully understood, much less controlled by our thinking, controlling ego/false self (Cermak 1985).

To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.

You can stare into the past but only your future is within your control.

The financial system has been turned over to the Federal Reserve Board. That board administers the finance system by authority of a purely profiteering group. The system is private, conducted for the sole purpose of obtaining the greatest possible profits from the use of other people's money.

From now on, depressions will be scientifically created.

The hand that controls the supper dish rules the world!

I don't wanna take my time going to work, I got a motorcycle and a sleeping bag and ten or fifteen girls. What the hell I wanna go off and go to work for? Work for what? Money? I got all the money in the world. I'm the king, man. I run the underworld, guy. I decide who does what and where they do it at. What am I gonna run around like some teeny bopper somewhere for someone elses money? I make the money man, I roll the nickels. The game is mine. I deal the cards

I'm no expert, but I know one thing about anger—it's like alcohol. At some point, if you pour enough in there, it's coming back up. You may think you've built up a tolerance, but the truth is this—no man, not even Unc, can bury it so deep that it doesn't erupt at some point like Vesuvius and splatter your soul across the earth.

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The truth is a giant hand. It both cuts us free and holds us tight.

What about all that 'turn the other cheek' stuff?" Dad's eyes narrowed. "When someone's trying to control you, you come out swinging. And keep swinging. Bible never said be a doormat.

Don't get axle-wrapped 'bout what you can't control. You'll get your chance. Your job is to make the most of it when you do.

But the people who have recently come to dominance and those who will come to dominance in the new century are increasingly aware—or can be made aware—that freedom still works in their own lives and that they effectively exempt themselves from most of the laws that take freedom away from other people.

A free society is most threatened not by uses of government that are obviously bad, but by uses of government that seem obviously good.

it is said that roosters think the sun rises because they crow. Politicians are much the same.

Para que haya estabilidad (en la economía), debe haber alguien que la imponga, y solo puede haber un estabilizador a la vez".

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

The People's' historic duty was to become a nameless herd and submit to the absolute control of a small pack of wily and vicious intellectuals.

If you want anything done right you will have to see to it yourself every time.

Anything under God's control is never out of control.

We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our Attitudes.

The body, the house of the spirit, is under the power of pleasure and pain," explains a god. "And if a man is ruled by his body then this man can never be free.

Jeff wished he were a computer himself. It sounded so calm and certain. He, as usual, was terrified.

Mankind will in time discover that unbridled majorities are as tyrannical and cruel as unlimited despots.