Restraints Quotes
82 quotes by 71 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
-
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
Who Wrote These Restraints Quotes
71 authors contributed a total of 82 Restraints Quotes, led by these top contributors: