Quotes about Control

I think you had better learn to control that imagination of yours,Anne, if you can't distinguish between what is real and what isnt.

An abusive relationship is worse than being in prison. I mean literally, not figuratively.

I didn't know that being in a relationship meant you had to be nice. I thought it meant you had to hack away at the other person until they were beaten down and then were too afraid to leave.

Religion is never the problem; it's the people who use it to gain power.

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

Religion is the most fragile of all freedoms. And that's because it is the most threatening to those in power.

If you don't surrender to Christ, you surrender to chaos.

Human passions unbridled by morality and religion...would break the stronges cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net.

Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.

As a result, socialism and communism, in particular, use government to suppress religion to such a degree as to leave the one true God out entirely.

I think those governments who resent religion, they're afraid of religion because religion may be in their eyes, in their views be seen as a counter government or a parallel government.

What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth. The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker. They are more easily excited; they are more violent and apparent, but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in mature life.