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Robert A. Heinlein

N.B.: This quote refers to the British disarmament of the Indian Army. Gandhi never advocated the individual right to bear arms.

Thomas Jefferson

Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?

Mao Tse Tung

It is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks. It is legal and lawful to own a shotgun or a rifle. We believe in obeying the law.

Brian Tracy

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

Ernest Jones

The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself.

Robert F. Bennett

A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.

Wayne W Dyer

I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.

Camille Paglia

Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating liberty between control by their mothers and control by their wives.

Noam Chomsky

Personally, I'm in favor of democracy, which means that the central institutions of society have to be under popular control. Now, under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control. Thus, a corporation or an industry is, if we were to think of it in political terms, fascist that is, it has tight control at the top and strict obedience has to be establishedat every level--there's little bargaining, a little give and take,but the line of authority is perfectly straightforward. Just as I'm opposed to political fascism, I'm opposed to economic fascism. I think that until the major institutions of society are under the popular control of participants and communities, it's pointless to talk about democracy.

Alexander Hamilton

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

Robert F. Bennett

Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.

Alexander Michael

Knowing that I am not the one in control gives great encouragement. Knowing the One who is in control is everything.

Steven Wright

I couldn't find the remote control to the remote control.

Ursula K. LeGuin

The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti-abortion forces what they want is control. Control over behavior power over women. Women in the anti-choice movement want to share in male power over women, and do so by denying their own womanhood, their own rights and responsibilities.

John Allston

If you don't control your mind, someone else will.

Mario Andretti

If everything's under control, you're going too slow.

Margo Kaufman

The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.

David Layson

Anarchy is not chaos, but order with out control.

James Abram Garfield

Ideas control the world.

Ronald Reagan

I will veto again and again until spending is brought under control.

Charles W. Chesnutt

Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards.

Seneca

It is a youthful failing to be unable to control one's impulses.

James Brady

It is not a loss of freedom. It's a measure to protect it. on gun control

Nicole Kidman

When you reliquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Rodney Dangerfield

One year they asked me to be poster boy - for birth control.

Peter McWilliams

To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.

Rodney Dangerfield

One year they wanted to make me poster boy.. for birth control.

Barbara Hall

Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.

Cato the Elder

We cannot control the evil tongues of others but a good life enables us to disregard them.

R. D. Hitchcock

The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man and without this all other education is good for nothing.

Ron Dart

The objective of false prophets and teachers of whatever stripe is...the influence and control of the minds of men.

Woodrow Wilson

Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.

Leonardo DiCaprio

People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes what they want is to see you fall.

Edward de Bono

Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.

John Muir

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.

Johann von Goethe

Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny.

Vince Lombardi

The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

Marion Shepilov Barry, Jr.

Our neighbors in Virginia are just as responsible for these killings as the criminals are because they won't pass strong gun control legislation.

Thurgood Marshall

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.

Stanley Kubrick

Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to think objectively when you're in trouble.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

Pope John Paul II

Where self-interest is suppressed, it is replaced by a burdensome system of bureaucratic control that dries up the wellspring of initiative and creativity.

Erich Fromm

The aim of sadism is to transform a man into a thng, something animate into something inanimate, since by complete and absolute control the living loses one essential quality of life-freedom.

T. S. Eliot

Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.

Arbie M. Dale

To decide to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.

Barbara Charline Jordan

We must exchange the philosophy of excuse--what I am is beyond my control--for the philosophy of responsibility.

Barbara Colorose

We control fifty percent of a relationship. We influence one hundred percent of it.

Robyn Davidson

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life and the procedure , the process is its own reward.

Woodrow Wilson

There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.

William Fullbright

The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.

Robyn Davidson

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward.

George Bernard Shaw

???So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination ... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring f

Michel de Montaigne

So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination. ..And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do no bring forth in the agitation.

"What is this? `Bottom Gun'?" -- Tom Servo

"What is this? `Bottom Gun'?" -- Tom Servo

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

"Control, control. You must learn control." - Yoda

When you control the ball, you control the score.

"Gun control means people control." - A. Hitler, 1939

"Control the things you can control, maggot!" - Cort

"Control electricity and you control the world." -- Shrapnel

"I couldn't find the remote control to the remote control

"We will control the verticle. We will control the horizontal..."

"Do not control. Be in control." - Caine to Peter

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself; neither do we rejoice therein, because we control our lusts, but contrariwise, because we rejoice therein, we are able to control our lusts.

"Gun Control isn't about guns, it's about control."

"Gun control" isn't about guns...it's about control.

I'm not irresponsible ... I'm out of control.

I hit the CTRL key but I'm still not in control!

Gun control is being able to hit your target!

Control thy passions, lest they take vengeance on thee.

Condominiums are not effective birth control.

Gun Control: Keep muzzle pointed at target.

Gun Control means holding it in both hands.

I rely on my personality for birth control.

Learn from your parents' mistakes: use birth control.

Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control.

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

If there is one basic element in our Constitution, it is civilian control of the military.

Let me control a planet's oxygen supply, and I don't care who makes

Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.

By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character

A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.

CRIME CONTROL: Fire a warning shot into his HEART!

Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way.

We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.

Dignity comes not from control, but from understanding who you are and taking your rightful place in the world.

Self-reverence, self knowledge, self-control. These three alone lead life to sovereign power.

The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man; and without this all other education is good for nothing.

'No Kidding' - a form of birth control''Normal' is just a cycle on your washing machine. --JPM

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, control youth, and delights old age.

Our memories are card indexes consulted, and then put back in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.

Man has six organs to serve him and he is master only of three. He cannot control his eye, ear or nose, but he can his mouth, hand and foot.

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.

2. He who is greedy is disgraced; he who discloses his hardship will always be humiliated; he who has no control over his tongue will often have to face discomfort.

The greatest potential for control the ends to exist at the point where action takes place.

He who is greedy is disgraced; he who discloses his hardship will always be humiliated; he who has no control over his tongue will often have to face discomfort.

It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.

You want to raise your child in such a way that you don???t have to control him, so that he will be in full possession of himself at all times. Upon that depends his good behavior, his health, his sanity.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things, there is no law.

So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination. ..And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do no bring fort

I think there are innumerable gods. What we here on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating trough human conciousness control events.