Quotes About Control

So long as men live together on earth and need means to deal with one another—their only substitute, if they abandon money, is the muzzle of a gun.

Moments later, when she saw the look of control returning to his face, she said, Don't ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.

Everything that isn't permitted by The Law is forbidden.

He demanded of all people the one thing he had never granted anybody: obedience.

Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

One of the methods used by statists to destroy capitalism consists in establishing controls that tie a given industry hand and foot, making it unable to solve its problems, then declaring that freedom has failed and stronger controls are necessary."=Ayn Rand

He, the man of violent energy and passionate ambition, the man of achievement, lighted by the flame of his success and flung into the midst of those pretentious ashes who called themselves an intellectual elite, the burned-out remnants of undigested culture, feeding on the afterglow of the minds of others, offering their denial of the mind as their only claim to distinction, and a craving to control the world as their only lust...

The power of the sky can be made to do men's bidding. There are no limits to its secrets and its might, and it can be made to grant us anything if we but choose to ask.

When unlimited and unrestricted by individual rights a government is men's deadliest enemy.

Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer—and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer--and that is the way he has acted through most of history." --Atlast Shrugged

Get the hell out of my way! Said by John Galt as the leaders of the country tried to make him become their dictator.

The laws say that men may not write unless the Council of Vocations bid them so. May we be forgiven!

Make no mistake about the character of mystics. To undercut your consciousness has always been their only purpose throughout the ages - and power, the power to rule you by force, has always been their only lust (John Galt)

A battle? What battle? I hold the whip hand. I don't fight the disarmed. Are they? They have a weapon against you. It's their only weapon, but it's a terrible one. Ask yourself what it is, some time. Where do you see any evidence of it? In the unforgivable fact that you're as unhappy as you are.

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer and that is he has acted through most of history.

He was taking control, rather than simply letting things happen to him. Then

He was taking control, rather than simply letting things happen to him.

You Cannot Always Control External Events, But You Can Control Your Personal Peaks And Valleys By What You Believe And What You Do.

Frica pe care o laÈ™i s? te conduc? este mai rea decât situaÈ›ia rea în care te g?seÈ™ti.

In short, we suffer from an "illusion of control" that fools us into thinking the future is more predictable and less uncertain than it really is. Or worse, we believe we can influence chance events through our own actions.3

The Ptolemaic system has been compared to that of Soviet Russia; it stands among the most closely controlled economies in history.

We cannot control events, Samuel Adams liked to say. The trick, he revealed that summer, "is to foresee as far as we are able, prepare for, and improve them.