Restraint Quotes

361 Restraint quotes by 286 unique authors

Capitalism may even be identical with the restraint, or at least a rational tempering, of this irrational impulse. But capitalism is identical with the restraint,… — Max Weber
The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues - self-restraint. — Edwin Way Teale
One nation is to another what one individual is to another; with this melancholy distinction perhaps, that the former with fewer of the benevolent emotions… — James Madison
It is, indeed, a fact that, in the midst of society and sociability every evil inclination has to place itself under such great restraint, don… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Taxes should be continued by annual or biennial reeactments, because a constant hold, by the nation, of the strings of the public purse is a… — Thomas Jefferson
Liberty is not to be enjoyed, indeed it cannot exist, without the habits of just subordination; it consists, not so much in removing all restraint… — Fisher Ames
THE Constitution proposed by the convention may be considered under two general points of view. The FIRST relates to the sum or quantity of power… — James Madison
We in this country, in this generation, areby destiny rather than choicethe watchmen on the walls of world freedom. We ask, therefore, that we may… — John F. Kennedy
Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free. — Horace
Some people still hold [the] view that restraints help psychiatric patients feel safe. I've never met a psychiatric patient who agreed. — Elyn Saks
People who make use of all their senses in trying times are no less patriotic than those whose restraint is lost, whose senses are dimmed… — Gideon Levy
I used to fight the pain, but recently this became clear to me: pain is not my enemy; it is my call to greatness. But… — Henry Rollins
The hardest thing for me is restraint. — Alexandra Guarnaschelli
Providence has ordained that I should be the greatest liberator of humanity. I am freeing man from the restraints of an intelligence that has taken… — Adolf Hitler
The only time the press doesnâ€™t sensationalize information is when one of their own is kidnapped. Interesting how they show restraint then. — Jim Norton
Third, there is value in any experience that exercises those ethical restraints collectively called 'sportsmanship'. Our tools for the pursuit of wildlife improve faster than… — Aldo Leopold
Not just self-restraint, that old killjoy, but communal restraint. — Wendell Berry
Who is going to be the first to face up to the need for self-restraint in the number of children brought into the world? — Prince Philip
True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who comet… — Michel de Montaigne
The boredom occasioned by too much restraint is always preferable to that produced by an uncontrolled enthusiasm for a pointless variety. — Osbert Lancaster

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