Quotes about Control

If we cannot shape our destiny there as no such thing as witchcraft.

Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men.

I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible.

I'm a freak when it comes to holding on the ground; it's just almost impossible holding me on the ground.

Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.

Even though the risks of death are higher driving than flying, many people would rather drive simply because they feel they have more control driving. The facts are that only a few hundred people die a year flying, and 44,000 are killed a year driving.

He began to realize what the criminal class knows so well, the impossibility of explaining anything to a man with power.

What's the good? he'll always be innocent, you can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.

Oh, go away,' I said. 'Go to your Third Force and York Harding and the Role of Democracy. Go away and play with plastics.' Later I had to admit that he had carried out my instructions to the letter.

The core problem seems to lie in the classical-philosophical equation of power with control, and thus omnipotence with omnicontrol, an equation that forces the problem of evil to be seen as a problem of God's sovereignty. If it is accepted that God is all-loving and all-powerful, and if maximum power is defined as maximum control, then by definition there seems to be no place for evil. If goodness controls all things, all things must me good.

In the first few centuries of church history, theologians reacted strongly against the prevalent opinion that things happen by fate. As a result, they emphasized human freedom and tended to believe that God did not control everything that happened.