“The most frightful of all spectacles is the strength of the civilization without its mercy.” — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Restraint “There are three things that must always act restrained. Even five that should not use violence as their final word: The… — D.J. Kenny Copy Share Image
The basis of self-government and freedom requires the development of character and self-restraint and perseverance and the long view. And these are… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
...Local prohibitions cannot block advances in military and commercial technology... Democratic movements for local restraint can only restrain the world's democracies, not… — K. Eric Drexler Copy Share Image
Restraint offers a space between intention and action and the opportunity to protect others from actions or reactions that should exist only… — Stephanie Dowrick Copy Share Image
There is, indeed, a most dangerous passage in the history of a democratic people. When the taste for physical gratifications among them… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
We come to recognize that playfulness, as a philosophical stance, can be very serious indeed; and moreover, that it possesses an unfailing… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It takes tremendous self-restraint on the part of the student not to want to monopolize the teacher's attention, to live a very… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I come out of the environment of the Deep South, where I had seen the millstone of racial discrimination weighting down my… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“Liberation can only be attained through saiyam parinaam (a resultant state free of anger-pride-deceit-greed, attachment and abhorrence).” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The most degrading of human passions is the fear of death. It tears away the restraints and the conventions which alone make… — Gertrude Bell Copy Share Image
The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity,… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
You will be interested to hear, Hilary, that it [the drug] had a most remarkable effect — even on Selena after a… — Sarah Caudwell Copy Share Image
Jay Townsend has offered, and I have accepted, his resignation from his position with my campaign. Now let's return to talking about… — Nan Hayworth Copy Share Image
One of the litmus tests for judicial conservatism is the idea of judicial restraint - that courts should give substantial deference to… — Jeff Greenfield Copy Share Image
This that is tormented and very tired, tortured with restraints like a madman, this heart. — Rumi Copy Share Image
“Putting down the power right from the whistle would be ugly and brutal, but it would get the job done. He wanted… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
I emphasize the reply that the liberty which a citizen enjoys is to be measured, not by the nature of the governmental… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Obama is looking good because he kept his nerve and retained his restraint. That's a tough combo: nerve and restraint. It takes… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
Why a tender curb upon the youthful burning boy? Why a little curtain of flesh on the bed of our desire? — William Blake Copy Share Image
Through vigilance, restraint and control the wise will construct and island that no flood will overcome. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If the true freedom of the press is to decide for itself what to publish and when to publish it, the true… — Tom Wicker Copy Share Image
Republicans define freedom as an absence of restraints imposed by government. Democrats define freedom as an absence of necessity, which government exists… — George Will Copy Share Image
