26 Quotes About Controlling-others

Self-centered people often get angry when someone tells them no.Stan said yes out of fear that he would lose love and that other people would get angry at him. These false motives and others keep us from setting boundaries:

He [March Briscoe] had been so preoccupied with his inability to control himself, he hadn't realize that even when you controlled yourself, you couldn't control other people.

Controlling my environment was still a compelling need for me. I did everything I could to not be surprised by anything...Looking back, I think that my need to predict how my day was going to unfold was a direct response to the amount of chaos in my childhood.

No one has the patent on you.

You like to claim that you’re in charge of the world, but it’s as if the world hasn’t noticed and it does whatever it pleases in spite of you. You claim the sky is blue, but almost on a daily basis it betrays you.

If they cannot control you in the four directions, they will control you inside the four walls

You always seek to control others when you are not in full ownership of yourself.

Like anything, religion can be abused, and some who follow religion are easy to manipulate. That’s why our military uses it for initiation. They don’t want a soldier who is worried about death, so they tell them they go to an afterlife. It’s tactically smart but morally wrong. As a war general, you get yourself a useful pawn.