Control Quotes

No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.

It’s essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.

Never give your money away to your children in your lifetime. Always keep control. If you don’t, if you listen to the lawyers and the accountants, you’ll find yourself being led up the steps of the nursing home.

When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, ‘This you may not read, this you may not see, this you are forbidden to know,’ the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind […]

How did I get here? Somebody pushed me. Somebody must have set me off in this direction and clusters of other hands must have touched themselves to the controls at various times, for I would not have picked this way for the world.

The more control, the more that requires control. This is the road to chaos.

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

Never before has man had such capacity to control his own environment, to end thirst and hunger, to conquer poverty and disease, to banish illiteracy and massive human misery. We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world – or to make it the last.

The new and terrible dangers which man has created can only be controlled by man.

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.