Restraint Quotes

361 quotes by 291 authors

It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. — Henry Adams
In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human… — Simone de Beauvoir
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without… — Edmund Burke
Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. — Albert Camus
It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. Our objection to scepticism… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of prudence, in the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only difference between an artist and a lunatic is, perhaps, that the artist has the restraint or courtesy to conceal the intensity of his… — Osbert Sitwell
Imagine now a man who is deprived of everyone he loves, and at the same time of his house, his habits, his clothes, in short,… — Primo Levi
The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be sacrificed without end, without restraint,… — Joseph de Maistre
Golf in the interest of good health and good manners. It promotes self-restraint and affords a chance to play the man and act the gentleman. — William Howard Taft
Liberty has restraints but no frontiers. — David Lloyd George
Whatever the occasion, do not neglect alcohol. No other refreshment will do. Yes, alcohol kills brain cells, but it's very selective. It only kills the… — P.J. O'Rourke
As long as we observe love for others and respect for their rights and dignity in our daily lives, then whether we are learned or… — Dalai Lama
Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave. — Marya Mannes
Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that… — Thomas Jefferson
We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it. — Woodrow Wilson
We come to recognize that playfulness, as a philosophical stance, can be very serious indeed; and moreover, that it possesses an unfailing capacity to arouse… — Friedrich Nietzsche
There is value in any experience that exercises those ethical restraints collectively called sportsmanship. — Aldo Leopold
Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint. — James Russell Lowell

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