#control

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#self-control #aspiration

People do not have the power to change situations, situations have the power to change people though. ↗

— Ram Mohan

#change #changing #changing-people #circumstances #life

What is it, what nameless, inscrutable, unearthly thing is it; what cozening, hidden lord and master, and cruel, remorseless emperor commands me; that against all natural loving and longings, I so keep pushing, and crowding, and jamming myself on all the time; recklessly making me ready to do what in my own proper, natural heart, I durst not so much as dare? ↗

— Herman Melville

#obsessed #obsession #love

Bad things happen when people work together. Everything goes out of control. ↗

— Rachel Weisz

#control #everything #goes #happen #out

I don't really want to control anyone, to be honest. ↗

— Amber Valletta

#control #honest #i #really #to be honest

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#himself #mastered #may #mightier #others

In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled. ↗

— Xun Zi

#bad #being #controlled #corrected #kings

Multinational corporations do control. They control the politicians. They control the media. They control the pattern of consumption, entertainment, thinking. They're destroying the planet and laying the foundation for violent outbursts and racial division. ↗

— Jerry Brown

#control #corporations #destroying #division #entertainment

Serial killing is not about sex at all, but about power and control and revenge on society. ↗

— Pat Brown

#control #killing #power #revenge #serial

Saudi Arabia operates according to the belief that God made young men and women so utterly and completely without self-control that they must be physically segregated every moment of the day and night. ↗

— James Buchan

#arabia #belief #completely #day #every