Quotes About Control

A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it.

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosohpy.

You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war.

I had not then learned the philosophy which teaches that he who would attempt enterprises of great command, must begin his government by laying its foundations in his own breast, in control of his own passions & that he who would survey the world must first sound the depth & shallows of his own character.

Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.

Maneuver warfare tactics are trust tactics. That is their single most important characteristic. And that's the biggest difference from what we do now." It is certainly the biggest change from the current command and control system. Trust and a shared way of thinking, leadership and monitoring, not fancy new C2 equipment, are what you need to be able to fight using maneuver warfare.

Nobody owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.

The tension between the governed and the governing is what makes the world go 'round. It's not love, it's that tension, because that tension exists in love affairs. The whole idea of control is at the heart of human relationships. Control and resistance to control.

The parents who are most frustrated by high-need babies have difficulty unloading the baggage of a control mind-set. "High-need baby" says it all. It's

Attachment mothering is not martyr mothering. Don't think that AP means baby pulls Mommy's string and she jumps. Because of the trust that develops between attached parents and their attached children, parents' response time gradually lengthens as baby gains the ability to control himself. Then mother jumps only when it's an emergency.

A functioning police state needs no police.

You see control can never be a means to any practical end. Control can never be a means to anything but more control like Junk.

The people are like water and the ruler a boat. Water can support a boat or overturn it.

Affection is a coal that must be cooled; Else, suffered, it will set the heart on fire.

We were not born to sue, but to command.

Men at sometime are the masters of their fate.

Our bodies are our gardens - our wills are our gardeners.

So every bondman in his own hand bearsThe power to cancel his captivity.

Thou [Death] setter up and plucker down of kings.

For how can tyrants safely govern home,Unless abroad they purchase great alliance?

We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.

I will make it felony to drink small beer.

The demi-Atlas of this earth, the armAnd burgonet of men.

No man's pie is freedFrom his ambitious finger.