Quotes About Control

The judges are doing what I am telling them to do, simply because I understand better than they do this one thing: the absurd lengths to which human beings go to prove themselves reasonable.

In this way that he sought to control the very passage of his life, deftly and without forethought, yet precisely and with enormous care. Part of it was to allow what was enormous, what was profound, without limiting it.

If they make you put on a suit, it's because they are going to do something horrible to you. I guarantee it.

Muscles are the way the body obeys the mind.

Thoughts determine the person......What you think is what you are...........Thoughts awaken feelings....When you speak that thought-----It Comes Alive.....YOU HAVE TO HAVE THOUGHT CONTROL.....NEVER FORGET IT.

I realized that I could think for myself, and that "The Black Experience" was a myth used to control black people.

Government works less efficiently when it begins to grow out of control and takes on more and more of the responsibilities that belong to the citizens.

We call our country home of the brave and land of the free, but it's not. We give a false portrayal of freedom. We're not free - if we were, we'd allow people their freedom.

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business. I live by the golden rule: Treat others as you'd want them to treat you. The religious right wants to tell people how to live.

He saw clearly the truth other men didn't. If you gave anyone the power to hurt you, soon enough, they were going to use it.

When Coin proposes a new Hunger Games, the significance of her name becomes crystal clear: she may be female to Snow's male, but they're two sides of the same coin.

The car I drove at a hundred miles per hour was out of control with the steering wheel locked, and I could only turn to the passengers and say, "Well, this is bad.

Making women the sexual gatekeepers and telling men they just can't help themselves not only drives home the point that women's sexuality is unnatural, but also sets up a disturbing dynamic in which women are expected to be responsible for men's sexual behavior.

the purpose of the word "slut" is: controlling women through shame and humiliation. Women's bodies are always the ones that are being vied over for control—whether it's rape, reproductive rights, or violence against women, it's our bodies that are the battleground, not men's.

According to the virginity movement, men have no self-control when it comes to anything sexual.

Whining is a form of manipulation. People will give anything to make you shut up.

We like to look for patterns and find connections in unrelated events. This way we can explain them to ourselves. Life seems neater, or at least less messy. We need to feel we are in control: it is integral to our self-esteem. We also know, though we deny it, that we are not in control. So we settle for the illusions of control. What if we stopped fooling ourselves?

We have no control over fate and history, but we can control how we conduct ourselves in this life.

It's not words that fail, it's the people who wield them. We have no power over life and death, we are subject to pain and disease and misery, but we command words. When you think about it, words are all we really have.

I'm sorry, but nothing 'just happens'. Stuff happens because either we make it happen or we let it.

Intelligence, which is used without the control of the mind, can lead people to dangers up to extinction. Utilitarian intelligence, which the mind cannot control, is dangerous as much as it is sharp.

The bureaucrat is a man who administers things and people, and who relates himself to people as to things.

El hombre no domina la naturaleza, sino que, fundándose sobre el conocimiento de unas cuantas leyes y secretos naturales, se ha erigido en la posición de dueño de aquellos otros seres que carecen de tal conocimiento.

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