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  • Each atom is trying to fly off from its centre. In the internal world, each thought is trying to go beyond control. Again each particle in the external world is checked by another force, the centripetal, and drawn towards the centre. Similarly in the thought - world the controlling power is checking all these outgoing desires.

    Desire   Trying   Atoms  
    Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”
  • A single assembly is liable to all the vices, follies, and frailties of an individual; subject to fits of humor, starts of passion, flights of enthusiasm, partialities, or prejudice, and consequently productive of hasty results and absurd judgments. And all these errors ought to be corrected and defects supplied by some controlling power.

    John Adams, George A. Peek, Jr. (2003). “The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections”, p.87, Hackett Publishing
  • Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom's root.

    Robert Burns (2009). “Poems and Songs of Robert Burns”, p.358, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • Self-respect is the root of discipline

    Self   Roots   Discipline  
  • Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

    Alfred Lord Tennyson, “Œnone”
  • Rule your mind or it will rule you.

  • The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.

    'The Descent of Man' (1871) ch. 4
  • There is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.

    "The New Freedom". Illustrated & Biography Added,
  • Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

  • Religion is defined as belief in and worship of a controlling power and atheism is precisely not that.

  • It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

  • It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

    Passion   Character   Men  
    Edmund Burke (1803). “The Works of ... Edmund Burke”, p.64
  • He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

    Laozi, Archie J. Bahm (1996). “Tao Teh King”, p.36, Jain Publishing Company
  • During any dance to which we surrender with joy, the brain loses it's controlling power, and the heart takes up the reins of the body.

    Heart   Joy   Brain  
  • Love is giving up control. It’s surrendering the desire to control the other person. The two—love and controlling power over the other person—are mutually exclusive. If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship.

    Sex   Giving Up   Love Is  
    Rob Bell (2010). “Sex God”, p.70, Harper Collins
  • If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

    Dr. Robert C. Worstell, James Breckenridge Jones, Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and Grow Rich, Updated and Complete - With If You Can Count to Four...”, p.120, Lulu.com
  • Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

    Edmund Burke (1791). “A Letter from Mr. Burke, to a Member of the National Assembly: In Answer to Some Objections to His Book on French Affairs”, p.69
  • Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

    Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1859). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence”, p.37
  • Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

    Wise   Passion   Men  
    Letter to a Member of the National Assembly, 1791.
  • I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.

    Pietro Aretino (1926). “The Works of Aretino: Biography: de Sanctis. The letters. The sonnets. Appendix”
  • You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

    Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.116, Lulu.com
  • Who can doubt that God created us to be happy, and thereto made us to love one another? It is plainly written as Gospel. The heart is sometimes so embittered that nothing but Divine love can sweeten it, so enraged that devotion can only becalm it, and so broken down that it takes all the forces of heavenly hope to raise it. In short, the religion of Jesus Christ is the only sure and controlling power over sin.

    Jesus   Heart   Broken  
  • The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.

    "The Awakening of Global Consciousness: A Guide to Self-Realization and Spirituality". Book by Dr. Jawara D. King, p.199, 2010.
  • Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.

    Fear   Men   Nwo  
    "The New Freedom : A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People" by Woodrow Wilson, (p. 13), 1913.
  • Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.

    Men   Liberty   Moral  
    Edmund Burke (1828). “The Beauties of Burke: Consisting of Selections from His Works”, p.86
  • Idiots must stop claiming that atheism is a religion. Religion is defined as the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power. And atheism is… precisely not that. Atheism is a religion like abstinence is a sex position

    Sex   Atheism   Belief  
  • Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

    Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.44, Macmillan
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