Quotes About Control

People with BPD often need to feel in control of other people, because they feel so out of control with themselves. In addition, because they feel vulnerable and afraid, they try to make their world more predictable and manageable by controlling it as much as possible.

Vulnerability opens us up to being shamed. To someone with BPD, controlling others is a way to ensure that no one can ever shame them. In practice, however, people with BPD often attempt to control others by putting them in no-win situations, creating chaos, or accusing others of trying to control them.

Minimizing any visible reaction: If the person with BPD knows the button-pushing is having the desired effect—whether consciously or unconsciously—chances are that the behavior will be repeated.

Realizing you can't control what people choose to think: You can't make everyone happy—least of all someone who is projecting their own unhappiness onto you. Stop taking responsibility for your loved one's inner world and start taking responsibility for your own.

Those who must control everything fear being vulnerable. Why? Because to be vulnerable opens up one to be shamed. Control is a way to insure that no one can ever shame us again. It involves controlling our own thoughts, expressions, feelings, and actions. And it involves attempting to control other people's thoughts, feelings, and actions.

Your adversary is the Devil, with his army of demons. Your battle with him rages not only all around you, but also within you, a fierce conflict for control of your mind, your heart, and your ultimate destiny.

Each time we sin, the Devil strengthens his grip on us. Through Penance, we loosen that grip and pull free of his control. Not only do we receive forgiveness of past sins; we receive grace to resist temptations to come.

Kill your television!

That's where I operate. In the shadows. Let other people take the credit. Don't be the story, shape the story: that's my motto.

Politics is the art of preventing people from minding their own business.

Cognition reigns but does not rule.

La conscience règne mais ne gouverne pas.

Consciousness reigns but doesn't govern.

Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

La politique est l'art d'empcher les gens de se mler de ce qui les regarde. (Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

Power without abuse loses its charm.

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.

Stress vindt zijn oorsprong in een bedreigende situatie, met als extreme variant een omgeving waartegenover we volledig weerloos zijn en een waarin we zelf actief kunnen ingrijpen.

Vraag naar het fundament van autoriteit, en je eindigt met de ondermijning ervan.

Anyone who interprets or defines your rights controls your destiny.

The White House alone cannot hold its opponents accountable.

doesn't take long for man to mess up anything we get our hands on. Without God at the center, we eventually manage to make a mess of everything.