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Peter Kreeft on Self-Control

Back to Virtue (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1992), p. 23.

If we can conquer everything except ourselves, the result is that we do not hold the power. More and more power over nature is placed in hands that are weaker and weaker. Heredity, environment, the spirit of the times, “the inevitable dialectic of history,” the media, something is always in the driver’s seat instead of ourselves.