Quotes with restraint

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  • Mahatma Gandhi
    When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Marquis de Sade ''Sex'' is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Henry Brooks Adams Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
    Henry Brooks Adams
    American historian (1838 - 1918)
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  • Barbara Deming After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
    Barbara Deming
    American feminist and advocate (0 - 1984)
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  • Algernon H. Blackwood And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has crumpled into dust, how vitally important it must be to control their very birth in the heart, and guard them with the keenest possible restraint.
    Algernon H. Blackwood
    English broadcasting narrator, journalist and writer (1869 - 1951)
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  • Arthur Laffer And let the Fed sell bonds to bring bank reserves back down to required reserve levels, so we have restraint on bank lending and bank issuances of liability.
    Arthur Laffer
    American economist and author (1940 - )
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  • Bob Filner Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.
    Bob Filner
    American politician (1942 - )
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  • Breyten Breytenbach Dangerous because your present Administration and its specialized agencies by all accounts know no restraint in hitting out at any perceived enemy of America, and nobody or nothing can protect one from their vindictiveness.
    Breyten Breytenbach
    South African writer and painter (1939 - )
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Billy Casper Golf puts a man's character on the anvil and his richest qualities patience, poise, and restraint to the flame.
    Billy Casper
    American professional golfer (1931 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • John Ruskin It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Daniel Webster Liberty consists in wholesome restraint.
    Daniel Webster
    American lawyer and statesman (1782 - 1852)
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  • Daniel Webster Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.
    Daniel Webster
    American lawyer and statesman (1782 - 1852)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Seneca Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Edmund Burke Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • James Russell Lowell Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Horace Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Theodore Roosevelt The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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