Quotes about Control
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
- Alexander Hamilton
No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
- William Howard Taft
The nature of the leadership spirit is the inherent desire of all mankind to control and regulate both environment and circumstance.
- Myles Munroe
In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.
- Alexander Hamilton
Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.
- Robert Frost
There is a Destiny which has the control of our actions, not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of Human Nature.
- George Washington
He left it in thy power, ordaind thy will by nature free, not over-rul'd by Fate Inextricable, or strict necessity.
- John Milton
The controlling Intelligence understands its own nature, and what it does, and whereon it works.
- Marcus Aurelius
We have two natures within us, both struggling for mastery. Which one will dominate us? It depends on which one we feed.
- Billy Graham
Everything in excess Is opposed by nature.
- Hippocrates
The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self-mastery.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
- Aldous Huxley