The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.

I think people need something to believe in, because they don’t want to have control over their own lives. They’d rather be able to blame it on an unknown being, or a greater god, or a greater spirit of sorts. And I think it’s easier for them to blame it on that.

Because we self-published ‘Draculas,’ we control the rights. Not just for now, but forever.

I became a control freak as a defense mechanism. The more control I had in my life, the less chance of being surprised, of getting hurt.

I know dozens of authors who have had a lot of books published by New York, and they won’t ever take another Big 6 contract since they’ve gotten a taste of the freedom, control, and money self-publishing offers.

A church has the right to set its own standards within its community. I don’t think it has a right to prohibit birth control or to enforce upon a secular society its conception of divorce and the indissolubility of the marriage tie.

In framing a government, which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty is this: You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? 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. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

A person always has control over how she meets her adversities, and the good news is that the facing of them, one after another, year after year, builds an inner strength that nobody can take away from you.

John Thornton stood over Buck, struggling to control himself, too convulsed with rage to speak. “If you strike that dog again, I’ll kill you,” he at last managed to say in a choking voice

Well football teams are perhaps easier to control than political parties, I’m sure the Prime Minister would agree with me, but yeah I think every team needs discipline and a sense of self-belief and that’s important, that’s what leadership’s all about.

Leadership is not about being in control; it’s about empowering others to reach their full potential.

To be honest, I haven’t seen much serious budget planning since the Republicans took control of the House after the 2010 elections and grabbed onto the Senate filibuster. It’s not the White House’s fault that John Boehner couldn’t deliver on a bigger deal.

We control the content of our dreams.

Control your emotions! Discipline your mind!

I refuse to follow the rules where society tries to control people with low self-esteem.

Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind, feelings and emotions

The only way you can truly control how you are seen is by being honest all the time.

For centuries, we were taught that anger is bad. Our parents, teachers, priests, everyone taught us how to control and suppress our anger. But I ask: why can’t we convert our anger for the larger good of society?

You can’t really predict what’s going to happen. The only thing you can control is your work ethic and how well you do your job.

As we conduct our negotiations it must be a priority to allow British companies to trade with the single market in goods and services but also, to regain more control of the numbers of people who are coming here from Europe

As an independent artist, you control the means of production, which is the ultimate form of empowerment.

The key fallacy of so called gun control laws is that such laws do not in fact control guns. They simply disarm law abiding citizens, while people bent on violence find firearms readily available

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Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data

Our story of bus drivers reveals the existence of the proverbial elephant in the room. It shows that the living standards of the huge majority of people in rich countries critically depend on the existence of the most draconian control over their labour markets – immigration control. Despite this, immigration control is invisible to many and deliberately ignored by others, when they talk about the virtues of the free market.

I’ve never worked for a show or was on a show where I didn’t have a lot of control creatively, but then again, I haven’t worked on a lot of shows.

Emotions are my weakness. It is in my blood. It is very difficult to control.

Congress must control their MLAs.

Silly me, I thought’ independent’ was like independent, but when NBC and [ production companies ] Fremantle and Syco pay for that investigation, they control it.

You can’t control what people say or do, but you can control how you choose to perceive it.

I let go of my need to control and allow the Universe to do her thing.

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

The art of life is the art of avoiding pain.

Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness, which unites your body to your thoughts. Whenever your mind becomes scattered, use your breath as the means to take hold of your mind again

A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.

One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

In terms of love, you’re not in control and I hate that feeling. I seem to write a lot of sad songs because I’m a very tragic person. But there’s always an element of humor at the end

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the governmen

We pretend to be a free society, and we pretend to be an adult society, but if you look at the facts, our news is just as contrived, and controlled as Pravda

If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things.

One year they asked me to be poster boy – for birth control.

It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous — even death is terrible only if we fear it.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.

I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.

I felt very much in control, I knew what my car was capable of doing, and I was just stalking, I guess, to make sure I had the right time to make it happen.

You can’t always control the outcome, but you can control your effort and attitude.

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

Music is something no one can control

You need to be able to hit, kick, grapple, wrestle, but for me so much of this is about the mind, about feeling you are in complete control of the space around you, and you know what to do at any moment. That is a wonderful feeling, but it doesn’t just happen, you have to work for it, train for it, think about it all the time.

The Great Culling of the human race already has begun. It is being done through chemicals added to our drinking water, food, medicines, and the air we breathe – chemicals that have the known effect of reducing fertility and shortening lifespan.

Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and to slavery. It is we who control these, and not another.

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

I’m not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.

I don’t control my writing – it controls me.

What I like about Pochettino is the way that he looks in control. He is in control of his players, in control of the way that they play.

I have strong feelings about gun control. If there’s a gun around, I want to be controlling it.

There is no mind to control if you realise the self. The mind having vanished, the self shines forth. In the realised man, the mind may be active or inactive, the self remains for him.

The Bible is a manual for enslavement, for the subjugation of women, for the control of populations, for the genocidal extermination of competing tribes, for the dissolution of the autonomy of the powerful state, for the infiltration of human thought, for the diabolical control of those who wish to be free men and women.

The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy—the one that’s absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes

I’m such a control freak, and it’s very hard for me to lose my inhibitions without something chemical inside me.

It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid.

I can’t control what happens to me, but I can control how I respond to it.

I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfil our destiny, but our fate is sealed.

At a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what’s happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That’s the world’s greatest lie.

To love is to lose control.

My mom’s hot. I mean she’s old, but my mom’s out of control.

You have two choices, to control your mind or to let your mind control you.

They have gun control in Cuba. They have universal health care in Cuba. So why do they want to come here?

I have to take total control myself. I can’t let anybody else do anything, for I find that I can do things better for me. I don’t want to get other people playing with what they think that I’m trying to do.

When you accept the fact that sometimes seasons are dry and times are hard and that God is in control of both, you will discover a sense of divine refuge, because the hope then is in God and not in yourself.

The single observation I would offer for your consideration is that some things are beyond your control. You can lose your health to illness or accident. You can lose your wealth to all manner of unpredictable sources. What are not easily stolen from you without your cooperation are your principles and your values. They are your most important possessions and, if carefully selected and nurtured, will well serve you and your fellow man.

If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

In its essence, technology is something that man does not control.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

I used to practice with a golf ball because it was easier to control.

The less confident we are in ourselves, the less we are in touch with ourselves and the world, the more we want to control.

One’s god dictates the kind of law one implements and also controls the application and development of that law over time. Given enough time, all non-Christian systems of law self-destruct in a fit of tyranny.

There is a Destiny which has the control of our actions, not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of Human Nature.

Religion is just mind control.

You must have a sincere and burning desire to achieve what you dream, dedicate yourself to making progress, and take control of your circumstances to change your body.

The Communist party must control the guns.