The passive aggressive arguer comes armed with tricky tactics. They cannot take the risk that they might be wrong: their self-esteem is too intertwined with their opinions. It is more important to affirm their rightness, and sense of superiority, than to arrive at the truth.
I am a man who likes to control things, and if I can't control them totally I will not control them at all.
I'm a total control freak and love to participate in the design of every single aspect of life.
The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
I'm not saying I'm a control freak, though I'll admit that I am at times.
But, I'm kind of a control freak. I get really freaked out if I don't know what's going on and what's going to happen.
Our compulsive hunger always to know first, speak first and decide first has only been amplified by the fact that we can now all participate instantly in a virtual version of a national cocktail-party conversation on Twitter, Facebook and blogs.
I am still very independent in my real life, and that's why I'm always trying to get out of relationships prematurely.
I'm terribly attention-seeking. It's very different once you get all this attention, though. Because then you want to control it. And you can't exactly.
We all have a tendency to want order in our lives. But order presupposes authority, and authority presupposes, sooner or later, that we'll all need hooves. It's going to happen sooner or later, isn't it? You know it is.
I was kind of surprised to learn how controlling I am. I never thought of myself in that way. I think the root of the control issues is usually fear, because you want to know what's going to be happening at any given moment.
I'm kind of a control freak. But there are others like me.
I have at last admitted that not only was I angry with my mother, but, in fact, I wanted to destroy her as a child. And I was so concerned to be a woman who was different from my mother that I had this vast architecture of rules.
I think sometimes my controlling instincts came out of a fear of other people.
I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.
People - running from unhappiness, hiding in power - are locked within their reputations, ambitions, beliefs.
People dislike uncertainty so much that they will impose an order on it even when it doesn't exist.
I'm too much of a control freak.
It's often out of my own insecurity. If I'm picky, it's for that reason. I want to be able to bring my best to the table. So if I'm not connecting to something, then I'm not gonna hold up my end of the bargain, and that's really embarrassing.
I get very agitated if I don't get something right away.
The drive for control, or the perception thereof, is truly the strongest force in human nature.
I'm incredibly neurotic and a control freak. I like the thought that if there's going to be anyone to blame it's going to be me.
An obsession with control generally seems to reflect a fear of uncertainty.
We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.
Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain some level of comfort.
