Quotes About Control

You can never love anyone to your own detriment. That is not love, that is possession, control, fear, or a combination of them all.

A good test of the appropriateness of a joke is whether the humor controls us or we control it.

To be filled with the Spirit is to be controlled by the Spirit. The Christian leader's mind, emotions, will, and physical strength all become available for the Spirit to guide and use. Under the Spirit's control, natural gifts of leadership are lifted to their highest power, sanctified for holy purpose.

The problem of modern man is no longer so much how he can live with gods and demons, but how he can survive with the bomb, revolution and the destruction of the balance of nature. He usurps more and more of nature and takes it under his control. The vital question for him, therefore, is how this world which he has usurped can be human- ized.36 His main problem is no longer the universal finitude which he experiences in solidarity with all other creatures, but the humanity of his own world.

The chief objection to playing God is that someone else is God already.

It is hard enough to face the moral law even with the revelation that the divine justice and divine mercy are conjoined. It offends our pride to be forgiven, terrifies it to surrender control.

See, once a person see what you will do if they don't, they let you keep on doin it! All of it! If you let them!

dark side took over, and things got…out of hand. He always felt bad afterward. But while Martin

Using women's fear of male violence as a means of regulating female behavior is one of patriarchy's most powerful weapons.

It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.

Justice is incedental to law and order.

Dictatorship is power based directly upon force and unrestricted by any laws.

process of "automatic osmosis" — the seeping of predigested thoughts along the Party line into all subordinate minds, disciplined to accept. The members become ideological sleepwalkers, drugged into complete obedience by an unconscious discipline.

Perhaps the future belongs to magic, and it's we women who control magic.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Place the lives of children in their formative years, despite the convictions of their parents, under the intimate control of experts appointed by the state, force them then to attend schools where the higher aspirations of humanity are crushed out, and where the mind is filled with the materialism of the day, and it is difficult to see how even the remnants of liberty can subsist.

Every time you forced yourself not to think, your thoughts exploded into life with renewed strength.

Gradually, moment by moment, you may have come to realize that although you can't stop the unsettling thoughts from arising in your mind, you can stop what happens next. You can stop the vicious circle from feeding off itself.

mindfulness allows you to catch negative thought patterns before they tip you into a downward spiral. It begins the process of putting you back in control of your life.

The mind seems to have a mind of its own.

spiritual leadership transcends the power or personality and all other natural gifts. The personality of the spiritual leader influences others because it is penetrated, saturated, and empowered by the Holy Spirit. As the leader gives control of his life to the Spirit, the Spirit's power flows through him to others.

Successful leaders have learned that no failure is final, whether his own failure or someone else's. No one is perfect, and we cannot be right all the time. Failures and even feelings of inadequacy can provoke humility and serve to remind a leader who is really in charge.

Without some central authority, society will disintegrate into chaos and anarchy.

One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.