Restraint Quotes

361 quotes by 286 authors

From a comparative perspective, the United States is unusual if not unique in the lack of restraints on freedom of expression. It is also unusual… — Noam Chomsky
None of us like the concept of law because none of us like the restraints it puts on us. But when we understand that God… — Ravi Zacharias
The liberty the citizen enjoys is to be measured not by governmental machinery he lives under, whether representative or other, but by the paucity of… — Herbert Spencer
Constitutions are checks upon the hasty action of the majority. They are the self-imposed restraints of a whole people upon a majority of them to… — William Howard Taft
The early American knew that freedom was nothing more than the absence of external restraint on behavior; the government could not give you freedom, it… — Frank Chodorov
When indeed Religion is kindled into enthusiasm, its force like that of other passions is increased by the sympathy of a multitude. But enthusiasm is… — James Madison
Great American power and responsibility are not unprecedented, and have been used with restraint and great benefit in the past. We have not assumed that… — Jimmy Carter
Weapons are the tools of violence;all decent men detest them.Weapons are the tools of fear;a decent man will avoid themexcept in the direst necessityand, if… — Laozi
Considering the great importance to the public liberty of the freedom of the press, and the difficulty of submitting it to very precise rules, the… — Thomas Jefferson
Golf puts a man's character on the anvil and his richest qualities - patience, poise, restraint - to the flame. — Billy Casper
In the dog two conditions were found to produce pathological disturbances by functional interference, namely, an unusually acute clashing of the excitatory and inhibitory processes,… — Ivan Pavlov
The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied. Liberty is not foolproof. For its beneficent working it demands self-restraint, a sane and… — Otto Hermann Kahn
The prohibition is general. No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give to Congress a power to disarm… — William Rawle
The victors called the revolution a triumph of liberty; but now and then liberty in the slogans of the strong means freedom from restraint in… — Will Durant
Now, nakedness is a delightful condition. And it keeps you very pleasantly cool - especially, I suppose, if you happen to be a man. But… — Colin Fletcher
By walking naked you gain far more than coolness. You feel an unexpected sense of freedom from restraint. An uplifting and almost delirious sense of… — Colin Fletcher
Freed from the pressure of haste, the tyranny of film, and now the restraint of clothes, I found myself looking more closely at what went… — Colin Fletcher
The calculated killing of a human being by the state involves, by its very nature, an absolute denial of the executed person's humanity. The most… — William J. Brennan
We tolerate, even promote, many things we once regarded as evil, wrong, or immoral. And then we seek "explanations" for an act that seems beyond… — Cal Thomas
An element of abstention, of restraint, must enter into all finer joys. — Vida Dutton Scudder

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