Control Quotes

"The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have." "Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking" "Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will" "Any excuse will serve a tyrant" "The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground" "The government will neither believe itself to possess the power, nor permit it to be usurped by others" "One can be the master of what one does but never of what one feels." "It is the mind that commands the body and always obeys when the mind asks." "The urge to ascend in control, the drive to survive, is rooted deep in our evolutionary past." "There’s a big difference between kneeling down and bending over." "The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck." "Power resides where men believe it resides. It's a trick. A shadow on the wall" "If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins " "The mind is the king of the senses, and for one who has conquered his mind, all senses are under control." "To sit back and let fate play its hand out and never influence it is not the way man was meant to operate"