None of us like the concept of law because none of us like the restraints it puts on us. But when we… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
It is, indeed, a fact that, in the midst of society and sociability every evil inclination has to place itself under such… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I still believe in the American Dream. I see it in terms of freedom, and a government that trusts its people to… — John Updike Copy Share Image
...let's talk about soccer scores. There are a few things that people all around the world need to admit to themselves. Trade… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
There is a drowsy state, between sleeping and waking, when you dream more in five minutes with your eyes half open, and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Humankind, which discovers its capacity to transform and in a certain sense create the world through its own work, forgets that this… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“From which moment is it considered saiyam (a state free of anger-pride-deceit-greed, attachment and abhorrence)? What is the beginning of saiyam? From… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
While President Barack Obama has, in one sense, tipped his hand by saying that he wants judges with "empathy" for certain groups,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
As you sometimes swear by him that made you, I conclude your sentiments do not correspond with his, in that which is… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There is an inherent tendency in all governmental power to recognize no restraints on its operation and to extend the sphere of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Freedom is not only the absence of external restraints. It is also the absence of irresistible internal compulsions, unmanageable passion, and uncensorable… — George Will Copy Share Image
No man ever feels the restraint of law so long as he remains within the sphere of his liberty -- a sphere,… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education . . . the time will come… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The river is of the earth and it is free. It is rigorously embanked and bound, and yet it is free. To… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I was much affected by the internal troubles of the Punch family; I thought that with a little more tact on the… — Edmund Gosse Copy Share Image
There cannot be self-restraint in the absence of desire: when there is no adversary, what avails thy courage? Hark, do not castrate… — Rumi Copy Share Image
[Industrialism's soon diminishing] capacity to supply human needs could be prevented if men exercised any restraint or foresight in their present frenzied… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I like restraint. Even with actors, restraint is something that I work on the most. — John Hillcoat Copy Share Image