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Quotes about Control

If the will is their servant then it is not sovereign, and if the will is not sovereign, we certainly cannot predicate 'freedom' of it.
- AW Pink
A secret combination that seeks to overthrow the freedom of all lands, nations, and countries is increasing in its evil influence and control over America and the entire world.
- Ezra Taft Benson
Liberty is the only true riches: of all the rest we are at once the masters and the slaves.
- William Hazlitt
It is hard to have a Southern overseer; it is worse to have a Northern one; but worst of all when you are yourself the slave-driver.
- Henry David Thoreau
If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around.
- Will Rogers
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
- Jack Kerouac
Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
- Aristotle
When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.
- Seneca
The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing
- John Adams
To control the breathing is to control the mind. With different patterns of breathing, you can fall in love, you can hate someone, you can feel the whole spectrum of feelings by changing your breathing.
- Marina Abramovic