Control Ourselves Quotes

• If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.

  Howard Zinn

  Tyrants, Ideas, Soldier

  Howard Zinn, Dean Birkenkamp, Wanda Rhudy (2016). “Uncommon Sense: From the Writings of Howard Zinn”, p.17, Routledge

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• Whatever controls us is our lord. The person who seeks power is controlled by power. The person who seeks acceptance is controlled by acceptance. We do not control ourselves. We are controlled by the lord of our lives.

  Rebecca Pippert

  Acceptance, Lord, Idolatry

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• Getting to know ourselves and learning to control ourselves are the two great tasks of life. Don't make up strange and exotic 'penances.' Simply say no to yourself once a day, and you will be on the road to sanctity for the rest of your life.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Two, Rest Of Your Life, Tasks

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• Mostly we're motivated to control ourselves in public. Mostly. At home the motivation is much less clear. At home there's a bit of a lab for bad behavior. You can test things out without terrible consequences. Or maybe the consequences are there, but they are deferred, buried, much harder to detect.

  Ben Marcus

  Motivation, Home, Labs

  "This week in fiction:Ben Marcus" by Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. May 11, 2013.

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• We should forgive and forget the faults of others. Anger is the enemy of every spiritual aspirant. Anger causes loss of power through every pore of our body. In circumstances when the mind is tempted to get angry, we should control ourselves and resolve firmly, 'No.' We can go to a secluded spot and chant our mantra. The mind will become quiet by itself.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Loss, Forgive And Forget

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• If Truth is taken away from us, then Right and Wrong are taken from us as well. If we don't know Right and Wrong, then we can't, we won't control ourselves, but will look to someone else to bring order through brute force and raw power. We will be controlled by a tyrant, and we will no longer be free.

  Frank Peretti

  Taken, Order, Tyrants

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• We don't need to 'control' free speech, we need to control ourselves.

  Peggy Noonan

  Freedom Of Speech, Needs, Free Speech

  Peggy Noonan (2008). “Patriotic Grace: What It Is and Why We Need It Now”, Harper

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• To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

  Virginia Woolf

  Motivational, Freedom, Self Control

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• To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half the house in order to water a single rose.

  Virginia Woolf

  Freedom, Rain, Order

  Virginia Woolf, Hermione Lee (2000). “A room of one's own and other essays”

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• I should say here, because some in Washington like to dream up ways to control the Internet, that we don't need to 'control' free speech, we need to control ourselves.

  Peggy Noonan

  Dream, Needs, Speech

  Peggy Noonan (2008). “Patriotic Grace: What It Is and Why We Need It Now”, Harper

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• Some people say, "Sometimes I have violent thoughts, what can I do?" So I say, "Well, have them!" Cos we should not try to control ourselves. It's very bad to control ourselves in this sense. If you have any emotion at all, if its a bad emotion or good emotion, think about it, you should just understand that you have those emotions. And it's good because we are people and we have all these emotions. And the result of that is you would become more and more peaceful. If you don't let those emotions be inside of you then you become extremely violent.

  Yoko Ono

  Thinking, People, Peaceful

  Source: thequietus.com

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