Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

The public doesn’t mind people living together without being married, providing they don’t overdo it.

You can say, ‚Well, isn’t it unfortunate that chaos is represented by the feminine‘ – well, it might be unfortunate, but it doesn’t matter, because that is how it’s represented. It’s been represented like that forever. And there are reasons for it. You can’t change it. It’s not possible. This is underneath everything.

I know that I’ve been guided by God. I am obedient.

I can’t imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father.

I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it’s up to me to choose to develop them.

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.

I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley. He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand, good can come out of it.

I have no problem yelling at anybody’s kid – free of charge!

It’s so easy to settle for less than God’s best for us because we don’t always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God’s will.

Everything God tells us to do is for our good. Whether it’s direction you get in His Word or something He’s specifically put in your heart for your situation in life, the absolute best thing you can ever do is obey Him promptly and completely.

Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

I don’t know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.

Remember that the essence of authority is that people willingly follow your lead.

Getting out of bed is like the foundation of the discipline, and I think it carries over into everything else.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

Governments don’t control people like they used to.

I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.

The system is that there is no system. That doesn’t mean we don’t have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that’s not what it’s about. Process makes you more efficient.

There is moderation even in excess.

When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike.

Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn’t women have their share? Soldiers and war heroes are honored and commemorated, explorers are granted immortal fame, martyrs are revered, but how many people look upon women too as soldiers?

There are hunters, and there are victims. By your discipline, cunning, obedience, and alertness, you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim.

I’m the only president you’ve got.

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.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.

I really don’t pay attention to the outside world when I’m incarcerated, because being in prison is like being in a different world. So I don’t pay attention to what’s going on outside of jail, because it’s all beyond my control.

People are terrified of me, and I want them to be.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Lord sanctify us. Oh! That Thy spirit might come and saturate every faculty, subdue every passion, and use every power of our nature for obedience to God.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

I truly believe that women should be financially independent from their men. And let’s face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define value. They define what’s sexy. And men define what’s feminine. It’s ridiculous.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Fidelity and allegiance sworn to the King is only such a fidelity and obedience as is due to him by the law of the land; for were that faith and allegiance more than what the law requires, we would swear ourselves slaves and the King absolute; whereas, by the law, we are free men, notwithstanding those oaths.

The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

These people are very unskilled in arms… with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

In military school, on day one you must memorize the mission of the Merchant Marine Academy.

The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

We should never let material things get ahead of God or become so important in our lives that we can’t walk away from them if He tells us to. Anything you own that has a hold on you is a problem.

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

I believed in God when cancer come to me. Now when I speak, I speak with authority because I’ve been there.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

Most shareholders have little if any control over the companies in which they own stock, even if they own a million shares.

Power over a man’s subsistence is power over his will.

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

The wisest have the most authority.