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  • I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.

    "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.
  • When money is controlled by a few it gives that few an undue power and control over labor and the resources of the country. Labor will have its best return when the laborer can control its disposal.

    Country   Giving   Return  
  • Preaching doom and gloom has been beneficial to the political class. They use it to gain more power and control.

    Walter E. Williams (2013). “Liberty Versus the Tyranny of Socialism: Controversial Essays”, p.91, Hoover Press
  • Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power.

    Power   Faces   Steps  
    "Malcolm X Speaks". Book by George Breitman, 1965.
  • 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  
  • Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.

    Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.679, 谷月社
  • Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

    Alfred Lord Tennyson, “Œnone”
  • Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them if they will not apply themselves to me.

    Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.679, 谷月社
  • Rule your mind or it will rule you.

  • Many white people experience themselves as powerless, even in the face of privilege. But the fact is that we all have a sphere of influence, some domain in which we exercise some level of power and control. The task for each of us, White and of color, is to identify what our own sphere of influence is (however large or small) and to consider how it might be used to interrupt the cycle of racism.

    Exercise   Color   White  
  • 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,
  • As long as I have you there is just one other thing I'll always need - tremendous self control.

  • The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person.

    Norman Vincent Peale (2016). “Reaching Your Potential”, p.76, Jaico Publishing House
  • Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

    "TheWorld Is Too Much with Us" l. 1 (1807)
  • I'm an anarchist. I'm implacably opposed to heirarchical systems of power and control. I also mistrust crowds, as they often operate according to their lowest common denominator. In terms of evolutionary psychology, the crowd is very close to a herd of stampeding wildebeest.

  • Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.

  • Bad as "independence" is, the main fault of the Federal Reserve System - an admirable system if conducted in the public interest - is that too much power and control rests in the hands of people whose private interests are directly affected by the Federal Reserves' actions.

    Wisdom   Hands   People  
  • Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

  • All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.

    Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”
  • Over time we are able to undermine habitual modes of thinking formed by our self-made self in early childhood, which tries to squeeze happiness from the gratification of our desires for the symbols in our culture of survival and security, power and control, and affection and esteem.

    Source: theindiespiritualist.com
  • If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

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

  • Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

    Oscar Wilde (2015). “An Ideal Husband”, p.40, Sheba Blake Publishing
  • Where the observer is at first a real goodness realized, later it is a sophisticated power holder. The observer is given power and control that belongs to oneness. When oneness has that power and that control, there is love.

    Real   Oneness   Firsts  
  • I'm absolutely convinced that this is a world of appearances, not reality. There's one reality and that's Light and Love. When some say, we create our own reality, I always demur and say, "Please, would you mind adjusting that a little bit? We create our own appearances." We become master of appearances and as we change our thought, we will see the appearances around us change. That gives us this huge sense of dominion and power and control over our world.

    Source: rbach.proboards.com
  • Real climate solutions are ones that steer these interventions to systematically disperse and devolve power and control to the community level, whether through community-controlled renewable energy, local organic agriculture or transit systems genuinely accountable to their users.

    "Why Conservatives Deny Climate Change" by Bill Shireman, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 1, 2013.
  • I bid you conquer in your warfare against your four great enemies, the world, the devil, the flesh, and above all, that obstinate and perverse self-will, unaided by which the other three would be comparatively powerless.

  • 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
  • There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

    Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.31, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
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