Restraint Quotes - Page 13

• Our runaway judiciary is badly in need of restraint by Congress.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Needs, Runaway, Congress

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• In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Self, Revolution, Ethics

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• There is a Passion natural to the Mind of man, especially a free Man, which renders him impatient of Restraint.

  George Mason

  Passion, Men, Mind

  George Mason's letter to the Committee of Merchants in London, June 6, 1766.

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• Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Leadership, Integrity, Character

  Lewis H. Lapham (1985). “High Technology and Human Freedom”

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• Members of royal families are born into a world of indulgence and entitlement, and the princelings who grow up that way may never have to develop the emotional musculature that will allow them to show self-restraint.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Growing Up, Emotional, Self

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• If you look at the end of the movie [Monsegnor Lahzar], I give a lot of space to what the spectator can also imagine of what's going to be Bachir's life afterwards. So, there's the restraint part, and there's the fact that the story is happening in the school which allowed me to tackle all these subjects without making it too didactic, because in the school everything happens.

  Philippe Falardeau

  School, Space, Giving

  Source: collider.com

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• I didn't want the film to be didactic, and this is tough because if you look at the list of issues, you have immigration, the education system, you have the grieving, you have suicide. I think what saved me were two things. I tried to do everything with some level of restraint and let the spectator make up his own mind.

  Philippe Falardeau

  Suicide, Thinking, Grieving

  Source: collider.com

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• So fruitful is slander in variety of expedients to satiate as well as disguise itself. But if these smoother weapons cut so sore, what shall we say of open and unblushing scandal, subjected to no caution, tied down to no restraints?

  Laurence Sterne

  Cutting, Weapons, Scandal

  Laurence Sterne (1810). “The Beauties of Sterne: Containing All His Pathetic Tales, His Humorous Descriptions, His Most Distinguished Observations on Life, and a Copious Selection from His Sermons ...”, p.241

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• Obedience is, indeed, founded on a kind of freedom, else it would become mere subjugation, but that freedom is only granted that obedience may be more perfect; and thus while a measure of license is necessary to exhibit the individual energies of things, the fairness and pleasantness and perfection of them all consist in their restraint.

  John Ruskin

  Perfect, May, Energy

  John Ruskin (1866). “The seven lamps of architecture”, p.166

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• The one condition for fighting for peace and liberty is to acquire self-restraint.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fighting, Self, Liberty

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

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• Humankind, which discovers its capacity to transform and in a certain sense create the world through its own work, forgets that this is always based on God's prior and original gift of things that are. People think that they can make arbitrary use of the earth, subjecting it without restraint to their wills, as though the earth did not have its own requisites and a prior God-given purpose, which human beings can indeed develop but must not betray.

  Pope John Paul II

  Thinking, People, Purpose

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• There are many prices we pay for freedoms secured by the First Amendment; the risk of undue influence is one of them, confirming what we have long known: Freedom is hazardous, but some restraints are worse.

  Warren E. Burger

  Long, Risk, Speech

  "Open The System, Don't Close It" by Edward H. Crane, www.cnn.com. November 25, 1996.

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• Fashion is a great restraint upon your persons of taste and fancy; who would otherwise in the most trifling instances be able to distinguish themselves from the vulgar.

  William Shenstone

  Fashion, Fancy, Able

  William Shenstone (1765). “The works in verse and prose, of William Shenstone, esq: in two volumes”, p.196

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• No man can possibly improve in any company for which he has not respect enough to be under some degree of restraint.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Men, Degrees, Enough

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.509

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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

  Degrees, Assembly, Tyranny

  Sir William Blackstone, John Fletcher Hargrave, George Sweet, Sir Richard Couch, William Newland Welsby (1852). “Commentaries on the Laws of England : in Four Books, with an Analysis of the Work”, p.126

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• It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint.

  Walter Scott

  Book, Stories, Privilege

  Sir Walter Scott (1831). “Waverley Novels: Kenilworth”, p.3

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• There are countries in which it would be as absurd to establish popular governments as to abolish all the restraints in a school or to unite all the strait-waistcoats in a madhouse.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Country, School, Government

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• Independence means voluntary restraints and discipline, voluntary acceptance of the rule of law.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Acceptance, Law

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

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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

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Wendell Berry (2010). “Leavings: Poems”, p.13, Counterpoint Press

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• It takes tremendous self-restraint on the part of the student not to want to monopolize the teacher's attention, to live a very controlled life and a happy life, and of course, be dedicated to the cause.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhist, Buddhism

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• 'Wiseguy' for its time was good. It was really good. And it holds up still. But a lot of the restraints have been taken off now.

  Jonathan Banks

  Taken, Stills, Has Beens

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Republicans define freedom as an absence of restraints imposed by government. Democrats define freedom as an absence of necessity, which government exists to reduce. America has not moved as far as it thinks it has beyond the argument about the New Deal, when FDR insisted, "Necessitous men are not free men."

  George Will

  Party, Men, Thinking

  "Monica And Other GOP Calamities" by George Will, www.sfgate.com. February 1, 1999.

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• Restraint is the golden rule of enjoyment.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Golden, Moderation, Enjoyment

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and reality, by L.E.L.”, p.231

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• When things fall apart, the children of the land scurry and scatter like birds escaping a burning sky....They will never be the same again because you cannot be the same once you leave behind who and what you are, you just cannot be the same....Look at them leaving in droves, despite knowing they will be welcomed with restraint in those strange lands because they do not belong

  NoViolet Bulawayo

  Children, Fall, Escaping

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• Even in the world of molecules the civilising influence of modest restraints is a cause for rejoicing.

  John Charles Polanyi

  Molecules, World, Causes

  "Some Concepts In Reaction Dynamics". "Nobel Lectures", Chemistry 1986, p. 403, December 08, 1986.

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