Control Quotes

You make me wish that birth control was retroactive.

I'm really not good with impulse control.

Laws can't control the lawless.

Sociologists have frequently observed that governments use punishment primarily as a tool of social control, and thus the extent or severity of punishment is often unrelated to actual crime patterns.

There is a 3rd point of view on the gun control issue - those who I refer to as THE VICTIMS - but they remain strangely silent.

A modern and humane civilization must control conception or sink into barbaric cruelty to individuals.

If you want to prevent abortions, you make sure everyone has health care, a high school education and birth control. Not the exact opposite.

Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.

To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.

If you hold on to the handle, it's easier to maintain the illusion of control. But it's more fun if you just let the wind carry you.

We know we can't stop every act of violence, every act of evil in the world, but maybe we could try to stop one act of evil, one act of violence.

Instinct of love toward an object demands a mastery to obtain it, and if a person feels they can't control the object or feel threatened by it, they act negatively toward it.

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.

In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature.

Patriarchy, routinely blamed for everything, produced the birth control pill, which did more to free contemporary women than feminism itself.

Gun control? We need bullet control! I think every bullet should cost 5,000 dollars. Because if a bullet cost five thousand dollar, we wouldn't have any innocent bystanders.

Acceptance means no complaining, and happiness means no complaining about the things over which you can do nothing.

The weather is nature's disruptor of human plans and busybodies. Of all the things on earth, nature's disruption is what we know we can depend on, as it is essentially uncontrolled by men.

The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.

One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.

Social control is best managed through fear.

As a restaurateur, my job is to basically control the chaos and the drama. There's always going to be chaos in the restaurant business.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

Due to circumstances beyond my control, I am master of my fate and captain of my soul.

[T]he truth is you don't need some external demon to take control of you to turn you into a raging, money-obsessed sociopath, you only need to let loose the demons you already have inside of you.

To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.

Indulging in unrestrained and immoderate laughter is a sign of intemperance, of a want of control over one's emotions, and of failure to repress the soul's frivolity by a stern use of reason.

I am a control freak.

Sad times May follow your tracks, Bad times May bar you from Saks, Add times When Satan in slacks Breaks down your self control.

I try to clear my mind of everything, I try to think of nothing. I just let my body act, the body can take control and do what it's trained to do.

I'm fairly convinced that the Kingdom of God is for the broken-hearted. You write of 'powerlessness.' Join the club, we are not in control. God is.

Freedom is control in your own life.

Only the development of his inner powers can offset the dangers inherent in man's losing control of the tremendous natural forces at his disposal and becoming the victim of his own achievements.

There is no such thing as gun control. There is only centralizing gun ownership into the hands of a small, political elite and their minions.

Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong.

Superior people never make long visits.

Don't worry about what you can't control.

I still have highs and lows, just like any other person. What's missing is the lack of control over the super highs, which became destructive, and the super lows, which are immediately destructive.

If you want a solid future, you need to create it. You can take charge of your future only when you take control of your income source. You need your own business.

Luxury is...to be able to take control of one's life, health, and the pursuit of happiness in a way that is joyful.

I'm kind of this control freak that likes to create his own hells before the real one can get to him

To me, birth control and abortion are genocide.I say, make room for children, don't do away with them.

It needs to become as easy to get hold of a condom in a poor country as Coca-Cola.

Our problems may stay, our circumstances may remain, but we know God is in control. We are focused on His adequacy, not our inadequacy.

Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.

I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.

If you don’t take control of your career, guess what? You’ll be stuck in the sunset watching the sunrise, I am thesunrise.

But, I'm kind of a control freak. I get really freaked out if I don't know what's going on and what's going to happen.

More children from the fit, less from the unfit -- that is the chief aim of birth control.

Nearly 100 years ago, when Planned Parenthood was founded, birth control was illegal.