Restraints Quotes

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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. In England, one… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. — Albert Camus
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
Liberty has restraints but no frontiers. — David Lloyd George
There is value in any experience that exercises those ethical restraints collectively called sportsmanship. — Aldo Leopold
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
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
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
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
Some people still hold [the] view that restraints help psychiatric patients feel safe. I've never met a psychiatric patient who agreed. — Elyn Saks
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
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
It is so far from being natural for a man and woman to live in a state of marriage, that we find all the motives… — Samuel Johnson
I say, 'If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children's book', but otherwise the idea of being conscious of who… — Martin Amis
There are some who maintain that trade will regulate itself, and it is not to be benefited by the encouragements or restraints of government. Such… — Alexander Hamilton
More directly linked to the impact of technology, it involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled and directed society. Such a society would be… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
In an age when schools are facing significant budgetary restraints, there is a greater need than ever to make chess available to as many students… — Garry Kasparov

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