Control Quotes

The last thing that I’ve been unable to control in my quest to control everything around me is death.

Quality Control, n.: The process of testing one out of every 1,000 units coming off a production line to make sure that at least one out of 100 works.

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 […]

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.

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 […]