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Tag Name "Restraint" (287)

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Every wanton and causeless restraint of the will of the subject, whether practiced by a monarch, a nobility, or a popular assembly, is a degree of tyranny.
William Blackstone
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The river is of the earth and it is free. It is rigorously embanked and bound, and yet it is free. To hell with restraint, it says, I have got to be going. It will grind out its dams. It will go over or around them. They will become pieces.
Wendell Berry
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Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.
Thucydides
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The story of man is the history, first, of the acceptance and imposition of restraints necessary to permit communal life and second, of the emancipation of the individual within that system of necessary restraints.
Abe Fortas
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Actors must practice restraint, else think what might happen in a love scene.
Cedric Hardwicke
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restraint equals indulgence
Barbara Kingsolver
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A people unused to restraint must be led, they will not be drove.
George Washington
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For me, my favourite actresses are like Charlotte Rampling or Gena Rowlands... people who have always stepped outside of the restraints of a certain type of woman or story. I always like those movies the best.
Kirsten Dunst
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There are two restraints which God has laid upon human nature, shame and fear shame is the weaker, and has place only in those in whom there are some reminders of virtue.
John Tillotson
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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 could only take it away.
Frank Chodorov
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Will, therefore, is the unbroken determination to exercise free choice as well as self-restraint, in spite of the unavoidable experience of shame and doubt in infancy.
Erik Erikson
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What modernity requires is not that you cease living according to your faith, but that you accept that others may differ and that therefore politics requires a form of discourse that is reasonable and accessible to believer and non-believer alike. This religious restraint in politics is critical to the maintenance of liberal democracy.
Andrew Sullivan
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The basis of self-government and freedom requires the development of character and self-restraint and perseverance and the long view. And these are qualities which require many years of training and education.
John F. Kennedy
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God sure esteems the growth and completing of one virtuous person, more that the restraint of ten vicious.
John Milton
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When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it, and avarice possesses the whole community. The objects of their desires are changed what they were fond of before has become indifferent they were free while under the restraint of laws, but they would fain now be free to act against law.
Thomas Jefferson
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Healthy parenting is especially challenging when our own childhoods weren't healthy. It requires energy, attention, and constant restraint. Realize that you need healing. Take time out to nurture yourself.
Vimala McClure
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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 sound out of the school of severity and restraint.
Michel de Montaigne
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The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of course, but more than we ought to be comfortable with.
J. Irwin Miller
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For those who believe executive branch officials will voluntarily interpret their surveillance authorities with restraint, I believe it is more likely that I will achieve my life-long dream of playing in the NBA.
Ron Wyden
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The cardinal virtue of all beauty is restraint.
Elsie de Wolfe
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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 the exploitation of the weak.
Will Durant
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There is value in any experience that exercises those ethical restraints collectively called sportsmanship.
Aldo Leopold
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I will rejoice the day when they say: This is right whether we all rot on top of each other or not, dear children, as we certainly may. Either practice restraint or be prepared for crowding.
Flannery O'Connor
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Addressing global resentment cannot be put off. If we do not learn to use our predominant power with great restraint, we will antagonize the world.
Lee H. Hamilton
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