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- It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it.… — 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;… — 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,… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Osbert Sitwell
- Imagine now a man who is deprived of everyone he loves, and at the same time of his house, his habits, his… — Primo Levi
- The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be sacrificed without… — 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… — William Howard Taft
- Liberty has restraints but no frontiers. — David Lloyd George