You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them
The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control and outnumbers both of the other classes.
Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.
To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.
Anger is a momentary madness so control your passion or it will control you.(Subdue your passion or it will subdue you).
Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
The spontaneous reproduction of superimposed needs by the individual does not establish autonomy; it only testifies to the efficacy of the control.
Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.
People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don't find myself saying, "Soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner." I don't try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds.
Eros, again now, the loosen of limbs troubles me, / Bittersweet, sly, uncontrollable creature….
The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone.
Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible, and blaming our failure on being born the wrong way.
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.