Quotes About Control

Neurosis is the result of willing the spontaneous.

Only a completely ready state can permit the luxury of a liberal government.

Let us put Germany in the saddle, so to speak—it already knows how to ride.

All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.

he could command an audience, set his box upright on its pole, opened its case, and began to play, bidding me dance to the music. The puppets never tired, of course; and I suppose he thought I was like them.

us were able to do so. Our eating may be out of control

My Higher Power sent me the message: I was as powerless over food as I was over booze.

What a relief to leave the job of directing the universe to God.

The gods have their own rules.

I am Actaeon: recognize your master!

This great inner world of consciousness, we may suppose, which each individual was now felt to control in some measure for himself, was a thing to fear as well as to respect. It gave to every single soul almost infinite potentialities, for evil as well as good; and even the wisest heads seem to have felt that civilization could only be held together as long as all these souls maintained a certain uniformity of pattern.

No record mogul had created Black Sabbath , so no record mogul could tell Black Sabbath what to do.

Money is in some respects life's fire it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.

Bureaucracy will be the deity of the twentieth century.

We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.

If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.

What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.

The Soviet constitution guarantees everyone a job. A pretty scary idea, I'd say.

Money is in some respects like fire; it is a very excellent servant but a terrible master.