Quotes About Control

Première raison de la servitude volontaire, c'est la coutume

Do not imagine that there is any bird more easily caught by decoy, nor any fish sooner fixed on the hook by wormy bait, than are all of these poor fools neatly tricked into servitude by the slightest feather passed before their mouths.

But if not one thing is yielded to them, if, without any violence they are simply not obeyed, they become naked and undone and as nothing, just as, when the root receives no nourishment, the branch withers and dies.

Yet, in the light of reason, it is a great misfortune to be at the beck and call of one master, for it is impossible to be sure that he is going to be kind, since it is always in his power to be cruel whenever he pleases.

FOR THE PRESENT I should to understand how it happens that so many men, so many villages, so many cities, so many nations, sometimes suffer under a single tyrant who has no other power than the power they give him; who is able to harm them only to the extent to which they have the willingness to bear with him; who could do them absolutely no injury unless they preferred to put up with him rather than contradict him.

Mais, à parler à bon escient, c'est un extrême malheur d'être sujet à un maître, duquel on ne se peut jamais assurer qu'il soit bon, puisqu'il est toujours en sa puissance d'être mauvais quand il voudra ; et d'avoir plusieurs maîtres, c'est, autant qu'on en a, autant de fois être extrêmement malheureux.

Les théâtres, les jeux, les farces, les spectacles, les gladiateurs, les bêtes étranges, les médailles, les tableaux et autres telles drogueries, c'étaient aux peuples anciens les appâts de la servitude, le prix de leur liberté, les outils de la tyrannie.

é um extremo infortúnio estar-se sujeito a um senhor, o qual nunca se pode se certificar de que seja bom, pois sempre está em seu poderio ser mau quando quiser; e em ter vários senhores, quantos se tiver quantas vezes se é extremamente infeliz.

siempre es una fatalidad tener que estar sujeto a un dueño, cuya bondad no ofrece más garantías que su capricho: y el depender de muchos es tener que sobrellevar otras tantas desgracias.

I don't have to blow up everything I see... I just like to.

The promise of mutually assured destruction had a way of calming even the fiercest hearts.

To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.

Any organization consisting of three or more members existing for more than three weeks must only be serving the interests of its strongest member(s).

They offered me freedom as a gift. She did. Who told her she had it to offer? I know the freedom you are talking about. I had that freedom the moment I was born. When these people say you belong to me, I own you, it is like the passing of the rain, or the setting of the sun at the end of the day.

Greed, crowned emperor, rules the earth with cold disdain for harmony's path.

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'

Well now I know I can control my tongue, my temper & my appetites, but that's it. I have no effect on weather, traffic or luck. I can't make good things happen; I can't keep anybody safe; I can't influence the future & I can't fix up the past. What a relief!" from book A Three Dog Life by Abigail Thomas

Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.

Become aware of internal, subjective subverbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc., with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hither unconscious and uncontrollable processes

To gain control of the world of space is certainly one of our tasks. The danger begins when in gaining power in the realm of space we forfeit all aspirations in the realm of time. There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.

Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes crimes out of things that are not crimes.

"The sun," said Mr. Bull, "never sets on English dominion. Do you understand how that is?" "oh, yes" said the Indian, "that is because God is afraid to trust them in the dark."

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes.