Control Quotes

Americans are culturally antagonistic to being controlled, but without a foundation in philosophical thought, they are often advocates of some area of regulation, control, taxation, or statism, i.e., some attempt to control others by force. It is the reluctance to submit to the decrees of others that is probably a leading cause of much of […]

If you don’t control your mind, someone else will.

Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.

If everything’s under control, you’re going too slow.

It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.

I’ve often been adrift, but I have always stayed afloat.

As long as I have you, there is just one other thing I’ll always need – tremendous self-control.

The “control of nature” is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and the convenience of man.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.