Quotes about Control

Rules help govern and steer a relationship along, so they're good things. But they become bad things when they become the narrow gate though which the relationship must always pass. When this happens, the rules become the basis for the relationship and, in a sense, become a substitute for the relationship.

Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum.

A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.

The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.

In the world of money and investing, you must learn to control your emotions.

I think in every country that there is at least one executive who is scared of going crazy.

It is my business, to manage carefully and dexterously whatever happens

People who own the world outright for profit will have to be stopped by influence, by power, by us.

God casts the die, not the dice.

Remember, you will never change what you permit, and never challenge what you allow.

When you ask them what's wrong with the world, they never say there is not enough religion. They say there is not enough peace, prosperity, security, comfort, health care, or environmental responsibility. In other words, not enough human control over nature and human nature.

What is voluntary comes from the will; what is forced comes to the will from outside and prevents it from doing what it will.