2,640 Quotes About Control

One must run his life and set himself apart to do that which he was born to do.

Only the untended bonsai tree in the corner of the room didn't try to control Zaria.

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind

Instead of exchanging your life for some coins and some pennies, you could actually take charge of your life right now. You can run away to take control of your time right now.

It takes a certain amount of intelligence, and bravery, to live your life without someone constantly telling you how to live it.

Large or small, I always have a choice. But I also have a choice to think that I don’t have a choice.

Once the technical means of control have reached a certain size, a certain degree of being connected one to another, the chances for freedom are over for good. The word has ceased to have meaning.

It is for the very reason that we cannot control other people and that they may be very different to us that something alive and interesting may happen in life.

I lived willy-nilly. Without any sense of being part of the order of things. I lived by fragments, pieces, scraps, in the moment, at random, from incident to incident, as if buffeted by ebb and flow. Oftentimes I had the impression that someone had torn the majority of pages out of the book of my life, because they were empty, or because they belonged not to me but to someone else’s life.