Quotes about Control

The man who listens to Reason is lost reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.

This is what women want: to be safe, to be valued, to live in peace, to have their own resources, to be connected, to have control over their bodies and lives, and above all, to be loved.

The writer and the dreamer have so much in common: They can't control the plot, they are always part of the story or the dream.

They made you believe you had power; they hammered at your brain over the barracks loudspeakers; they commanded you in the name of your country; and they gave you your share of guilt so you could not wash your hands of it but would be forever bound by ties of blood.

Be God or let God.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.

Men are like stone jugs - you may lug them where you like by the ears.

The emotions are not always subject to reason ... but they are always subject to action. When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.

As Charles Lamb says, there is nothing so nice as doing good by stealth and being found out by accident, so I now say it is even nicer to make heroic decisions and to be prevented by 'circumstances beyond your control' from ever trying to execute them.

Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.

The government is supposed to conform to our will. By taking the most important thing you have, your health and your health care, and turning that over to the government, you fundamentally shift the power, a huge chunk of it, from the people to the government. This is not the direction that we want the government to go in this nation.