Quotes About Control

Success isn't dependent on the market place, because I can't control that. It's about completing a good song.

If work was a good thing, the rich would have it all and not let you do it.

I don't feel that emotion is a good thing to have in combat. You must be cold.

I'm not in control of my fate, and that's a good thing.

Emotion is a good thing, but top level football can be tough, and you have to be in control.

called counter command-control warfare: just knowing that you'd been hacked, regardless of its tangible effects, was disorienting, disrupting. Meanwhile

Our destiny is largely in our hands.

The control of events has been taken out of our hands...we have fallen into the mighty current of eternal principles-invisible forces-which are shaping and fashioning events as they wish, using us only as instruments to work out their own results in our national destiny.

Beat and cuff your slave, keep him hungry and spiritless, and he will follow the chain of his master like a dog; but, feed and clothe him well, - work him moderately - surround him with physical comfort, - and dreams of freedom intrude. Give him a bad master, and he aspires to a good master; give him a good master, and he wishes to become his own master.

This will be seen by the fact, that the slaveholders like to have their slaves spend those days just in such a manner as to make them as glad of their ending as of their beginning. Their object seems to be, to disgust their slaves with freedom, by plunging them into the lowest depths of dissipation.

To make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.

Everybody in the South seemed to want the privilege of whipping somebody else.

to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason. He must be able to detect no inconsistencies in slavery; he must be made to feel that slavery is right; and he can be brought to that only when he ceases to be a man.

unless the whole structure of the government is changed from a government by States to something like a despotic central government, with power to control even the municipal regulations of States, and to make them conform to its own despotic will.

All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its mouth: 'I, the state, am the people.

It is invisible hands that torment and bend us the worst

Here the spirit becomes a lion who would conquer his freedom and be master… Who is the great dragon whom the spirit will no longer call lord and go? 'Thou shalt' is the name of the great dragon. But the spirit of the lion says, 'I will.

T]he mob is the most ruthless of tyrants;

Society tames the wolf into a dog. And man is the most domesticated animal of all.

When thou goest to woman, take thy whip.