Quotes about Control

The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them.

If human emotions largely result from thinking, then one may appreciably control one's feelings by controlling one's thoughts - or by changing the internalized sentences, or self-talk, with which one largely created the feeling in the first place.

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will.

In the general course of human nature, a power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.

A government ought to contain in itself every power requisite to the full accomplishment of the objects committed to its care, and to the complete execution of the trusts for which it is responsible; free from every other control but a regard to the public good and to the sense of the people.

Power controlled or abridged is almost always the rival and enemy of that power by which it is controlled or abridged.

The second place, it has, on another occasion, been shown that the federal legislature will not only be restrained by its dependence on its people, as other legislative bodies are, but that it will be, moreover, watched and controlled by the several collateral legislatures, which other legislative bodies are not.

The inference to which we are brought is, that the causes of faction cannot be removed, and that relief is only to be sought in the means of controlling its effects.

Of all the cares or concerns of government, the direction of war most peculiarly demands those qualities which distinguish the exercise of power by a single hand.

My mom was very strict. She didn't let me watch anything rated R or anything with cussing.

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.