I have discovered through trial and error, primarily the latter, that none of us stands at the helm of life’s great ocean liner; control is an illusion; destination itself is a pitiful chimera; we are at best mere passengers aboard a drifiting vessel, some of us in steerage, some in first class, all at the […]
Control Quotes
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.
Knowing that I am not the one in control gives great encouragement. Knowing the One who is in control is everything.
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.
Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order. Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
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.
