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• Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others

  John Locke

  Liberty, Violence

  John Locke (1821). “Two treatises of government”, p.234

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• I just want to help other women achieve as much as they can in society without restraints being imposed on us. It's the most natural and normal thing to want to defend your rights to equal opportunities, equal pay for equal work, and everything that comes with that.

  Amy Poehler

  Helping Others, Opportunity, Rights

  Source: egomagazine.ae

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• If to break loose from the bounds of reason, and to want that restraint of examination and judgment which keeps us from choosing or doing the worst, be liberty, true liberty, madmen and fools are the only freemen: but yet, I think, nobody would choose to be mad for the sake of such liberty, but he that is mad already.

  John Locke

  Thinking, Mad, Liberty

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• All the four stages in a man's life are devised by the seers in Hinduism for imposing discipline and self-restraint.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Self, Discipline

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint. They are eager to barter their independence for relief from the burdens of willing, deciding and being responsible for inevitable failure. They willingly abdicate the directing of their lives to those who want to plan, command and shoulder all responsibility.

  Eric Hoffer

  Responsibility, Frustrated, Independence

  ERIC HOFFER (1963). “THE TRUE BELIEVER”

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• Appropriated to justice, to security, to reason, to restraint; where there is no respect of persons; where will is nothing and power is nothing and numbers are nothing, and all are equal and all secure before the law.

  Rufus Choate

  Equality, Numbers, Law

  Rufus Choate (1883). “Addresses and Orations of Rufus Choate”

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• If the true freedom of the press is to decide for itself what to publish and when to publish it, the true responsibility of the press must be to assert and defend that freedom... What the press in America needs is less inhibition, not more restraint.

  Tom Wicker

  Responsibility, America, Needs

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• I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Writing, Wish, Rhyme

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.219, Harvard University Press

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• It's true that private enterprise is extremely flexible, But its only good within very narrow limits. If private enterprise isn't held in an iron grip it gives birth to people who are no better than beasts, those stock-exchange people with greedy appetites beyond restraint.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Iron, People, Giving

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• There are many objects of desire, and therefore many desires. Some are born with us, hunger, yearning, and pride of place, and some are of the foolishness of the world, such as the desire to eat off silver plates. Desire is a wild horse to be tamed. Virtue is habit long continued. The taming of desire is like the training of an athlete. Discipline is not the restraint but the use of energy.

  Guy Davenport

  Horse, Athlete, Pride

  "Eclogues: Eight Stories".

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• The constitutional right of free expression... is designed and intended to remove governmental restraints from the arena of public discussion, putting the decision as to what views shall be voiced in the hands of each of us, in the hope that the use of such freedom will ultimately produce a more capable citizenry and more perfect polity and in the belief that no other approach would comport with the premise of individual dignity and choice upon which our political systems rests.

  John Marshall Harlan II

  Government, Views, Expression

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• The work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint.

  John Milton

  Work, Luxury, Grows

  John Milton, John Aikin (1806). “Poetical Works: With a Preface, Biographical and Critical”, p.92

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• Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.

  Laurence Sterne

  Religion, Literature, Companion

  Laurence Sterne (1853). “Works ...”, p.595

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• All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.

  John Stuart Mill

  Law, People, Enforcement

  John Stuart Mill (1864). “On Liberty”, p.14

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• Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

  John Milton

  Art, Lying, Government

  John Milton (1859). “The prose works of John Milton”, p.177

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• There is no governor anywhere. You are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped. If anybody could go into dhyana at will, nobody could be controlled - by fear of prison, by fear of whips or electroshock, by fear of death, even. All existing society is based on keeping those fears alive, to control the masses. Ten people who know would be more dangerous than a million armed anarchists.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  People, Would Be, Alive

  "The Trick Top Hat". Book by Robert Anton Wilson within the Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy, 1979.

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• Love increases through righteous restraint and decreases through impulsive indulgence.

  David A. Bednar

  Increase, Decrease, Righteous

  "We Believe in Being Chaste". www.lds.org. April 2013.

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• When the heat and motion of blind impulses and passions distract it on all sides, we can neither give nor receive anything truly. But when we find our centre in our soul by the power of self-restraint, by the force that harmonizes all warring element

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Passion, Self, Giving

  Rabindranath Tagore (2017). “Sadhana: The Realization of Life”, p.30, BookRix

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• In our time the only restraint left is self-retraint.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Self, Our Time, Left

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• With a title like this-There's a Box in the Garage You Can Beat with a Stick-is there really a whole lot left to say? With cunning and quintessential stealth, with artful restraint, with whats fathering and foxy and filled with intelligence and wit, Michael Teig goes about making what seems to be invisible and unspeakable, the most palpable and important matter in the world.

  Dara Wier

  Important, Titles, World

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• People who do not know the Bible well have been gulled into thinking it is a good guide to morality. This mistaken view may have motivated the "millionaire Conservative party donors". I have even heard the cynically misanthropic opinion that, without the Bible as a moral compass, people would have no restraint against murder, theft and mayhem. The surest way to disabuse yourself of this pernicious falsehood is to read the Bible itself.

  Richard Dawkins

  Party, Thinking, Views

  "Why I want all our children to read the King James Bible". www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2012.

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• French elegance lies in the balance of romance and restraint.

  Sarah Turnbull

  Lying, Romance, Balance

  Sarah Turnbull (2011). “Almost French”, p.21, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity, in unity, in clarity, and in restraint.

  Lytton Strachey

  Latin, Simplicity, Unity

  Lytton Strachey (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)”, p.22, Delphi Classics

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• "Children, don't speak so coarsely," said Mr Webster, who had a vague notion that some supervision should be exercised over his daughters' speech, and that a line should be drawn, but never knew quite when to draw it. He had allowed his daughters to use his library without restraint, and nothing is more fatal to maidenly delicacy of speech than the run of a good library.

  Robertson Davies

  Daughter, Running, Children

  "Tempest-Tost" by Robertson Davies, (Part 1), 1951.

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• There are the further difficulties of building a population out of a diversity of races, each at a different stage of cultural evolution, some in need of restraint, many in need of protection; everywhere a bewildering Babel of tongues.

  Arthur Keith

  Race, Diversity, Population

  Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”

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