Quotes about Control

Laws, enforced by the sword, control behavior but cannot change hearts.

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.

If Men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and the next place, oblige it to control itself.

You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.

...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.

Your words control your life, your progress, your results, even your mental and physical health. You cannot talk like a failure and expect to be successful.

What man's mind can create, man's character can control.

The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite

When the tongue or the pen is let loose in a frenzy of passion, it is the man, and not the subject, that becomes exhausted.

Though we have been wise enough to shut and lock the door against an absolute monarchy, we at the same time have been foolish enough to put the crown in possession of the key.

It is our work to cast care, and it is God's work to take care.