Quotes about Control
No man ruleth safely but he that is willingly ruled.
— Thomas a Kempis
I consider how little man is, yet, in his own mind, how great. He is lord and master of all things, yet scarce can command anything.
— Edmund Burke
Do not mistake the rule of force for true power. Men are not shaped by force.
— Euripides
Man is man, and master of his fate.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
If there is no God, then man sometimes thinks he is god, and sometimes tries to live like a god.
— Ben Stein
For the power of Man to make himself what he pleases means... the power of some men to make other men what THEY please.
— CS Lewis
Each new power won by man is a power over man as well. Each advance leaves him weaker as well as stronger.
— CS Lewis
Censors are dead men set up to judge between life and death. For no live, sunny man would be a censor, he'd just laugh.
— DH Lawrence
Nothing happens to man without the permission of God.
— Euripides
Instead of the machine being a giant to which the man is the pygmy, we must at last reverse the proportions until man is a giant to whom the machine is the toy.
— GK Chesterton
If you're going to have a male dominant system, to maintain the system, you have to teach men to dominate.
— Gloria Steinem
I want to dominate the man's world.
— Marina Abramovic