Control Quotes

Christ does not control his subjects by force, but is King of a willing people. They are, through His grace, freely devoted to His service.
Joseph Alleine



I conceive of God, in fact, as a means of liberation and not a means to control others.
James Baldwin



We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.
Claude Bernard



Young and rich and out of control.
Drake



The most temperate of persons is the one who controls hismself, and in doubtful events is self-contained.
al-Abidin, Ali ZaynJasper Akinola



Most people are far more concerned that they can control their own bodies than they are about petitioning Congress.
Jacob M. Appel



Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
Matthew Arnold



Birds are the most accomplished aeronauts the world has ever seen. They fly high and low, at great speed, and very slowly. And always with extraordinary precision and control.
Sir David Frederick Attenborough



The U.S. has become a defacto one-party state, with the legislative branch permanently controlled by an incumbent's party and every president exploiting his role as Commander-in-Chief to expand on the imperial prerogatives of his office.
Andrew J. Bacevich



Policy-making, decision-taking, and control: These are the three functions of management that have intellectual content.
Anthony Stafford Beer



I think there are two ways in which people are controlled. First of all frighten people and secondly, demoralize them.
Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn



All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate.
Sir Isaiah Berlin



Christians... get Christmas under control. Seriously. It won't stop! It doesn't stop does it? It's always Christmas now! Make it the whole year! It's the only time you pricks are happy!
Lewis Niles Black



Each state claims the right to control interests foreign to itself when those interests are such that it can control them without putting its own interests in danger. ... other powers only recognize this right of intervening in proportion as the country doing it has the power to do it.
Napoleon Bonaparte



Ground Control to Major Tom. Ground Control to Major Tom. Take your protein pills and put your helmet on.
David Robert Jones