Quotes about Control

Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

Stability, " insisted the Controller, "stability. The primal and the ultimate need. Stability. Hence all this.

When I choose to smile I become the master of my emotions.

Suppress prostitution, and capricious lusts will overthrow society.

Inner liberty depends upon being exempt from domination of things as well as from domination of people. There are many who have acquired a high degree of political and social liberty, but only very few are not enslaved to things.

There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.

Modern man fell into the trap of believing that everything can be explained, that reality is a simple affair which has only to be organized in order to be mastered.

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away. it's best to let him run.

So true it is that man proposes and God disposes.

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

Remember again the principle: We will never be over those things that God has set under us until we learn to be under those things that God has placed over us. There is strength through surrender.

It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters.