Quotes About Control

There are a lot of hard things in this world," he said. "You don't need to beat yourself up over something that's out of your control.

The mind is the master and the body is the servant.

Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.

Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

This ONLY is denied God The power to undo the past.

Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

Man has responsiblity, not power. Tuscarora

We win because we make it happen, we lose because we let it happen!

Our ancestors derived less from life than we do, but they also expected much less and were less intent on controlling the future. We are of the arrogant generations who believe a lasting happiness was promised to us at birth. Promised? By whom?

En chacun de nous existe un Mr Hyde; le tout est d'empêcher que les conditions d'émergence du monstre ne soient rassemblées.

dès lors que l'on a la technologie adéquate et un bon prétexte pour contrôler, on contrôlera.

Yöneticilerin en kötüsü seni sopalayan deÄŸil, seni kendi kendini sopalamaya zorlayand?r.

XX. Yüzy?l bize hiçbir doktrinin mutlaka kendiliÄŸinden özgürlükçü olamayaca??n?, hepsinin, komünizmin, liberalizmin, milliyetçiliÄŸin, büyük dinlerden her birinin, hatta laikliÄŸin kontrolden ç?kabileceÄŸini, hepsinin yozlaÅŸabileceÄŸini, hepsinin elininin kana bulaÅŸt???n? öÄŸretmiÅŸ olacak.

A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.

Photographers are the new Brahmins: we have no volition when they rule us.

Activation of the Yashasvini Nadi gives emotional stability, sensitivity and control. It gives deep convictions and commitment to work for a cause and higher purposes in life.

You are your master. Only you have the master keys to open the inner locks.

Silentiary (n.) An official whose job it is to command silence. I would like to have my very own silentiary, someone I can bring to the library and to the apartment next door. Sitzfleisch

The markets make a good servant but a bad master, and a worse religion.

The mind is fast emancipating itself from the dominion of man and of matter. It has let loose fearful forces on the world.

The passions refuse to be organized on a basis of their own; hostile to personal freedom and one another, they rush precipitately into anarchy and mob rule.

I'm keeping a tight leash on the magic, though, because the last thing I want is for the two of us to wind up floating off the planet while we're messing around.