Quotes About Control

Society is the master, and man is the servant.

It's an expansion. And it's a stealth mechanism to put the tentacles of socialized medicine even deeper into society.

Unfortunately, in our society, power means the ability to dominate and oppress.

The dioxin story is the story of how science has failed to provide us with answers, how corporations control policymaking and decisions in our society, and how government is silenced.

Government by idea tends to take in everything, to make the whole of society obedient to the idea. Spaces not so governed are unconquered, beyond the border, unconverted, a future danger.

One wonders what would happen in a society where there were no rules to break. Doubtlessly everyone would quickly die of boredom.

Yes, sin, sickness and disease, spiritual death, poverty and everything else that's of the devil once ruled us. But now, bless God, we rule them - for this is the Day of Dominion!

A spiritual law that few recognize is that our confession rules us. It is what we confess with our lips that really dominates our inner being.

Another illusion is that external events have the power to hurt you, that other people have the power to hurt you. They don't. It's you who give this power to them.

Worry is a direct consequence of relying on your own efforts.

What is it to be a fool for Christ? It is to control one's thoughts when they stray out of line. It is to make the mind empty and free.

To make the mind obey you is a spiritual discipline.

Spirituality is like a bird: If you hold it too closely, it chokes, And if you hold it too loosely, it escapes.

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

SPIRITUAL EXERCISES whereby to conquer oneself, and order one's life, without being influenced in one's decision by any inordinate affection.

What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you.

We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.

Destiny is what every human being creates for oneself. Fate is when you fail to create your own destiny.

No condition outside ourselves can create a rut or trap us in it. It's impossible.

...the need to overawe people and demand obedience from them is powerful and seductive. It is a part of that world that the kingdom of heaven is not of.

When you let go of your attention for a little while, do not think you may recover it whenever you please.

For the Fascist, everything is the State, and nothing human or spiritual exists, much less has value, outside the State. In this sense Fascism is totalitarian.

In Scripture we read of two kinds of men-the spiritual man controlled by the Holy Spirit, and the "carnal" man who is ruled by his passions.

Spiritual progress is when on becomes free not only of the knowledge which is inevitably from the past, but also from the need to know... and a desire to predict and control.