William Blackstone Quotes

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 fear that individuality will be crushed out by the growing 'tyranny' of standardization is the sort of myth which cannot withstand the briefest examination.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Fear
  • Growing
  • Tyranny

• One of the things we're taught as actors is restraint - don't jump off the cliff.

  

  Ted Lange
  • Jump
  • Restraint
  • Cliff

• I wanted to be Katharine Hepburn-ish – there was a bit of nobility about her.

  

  Sally Field
  • Wanted
  • Her
  • Bit

• It's the tyranny of an oligarchy that I'm concerned about.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • About
  • Tyranny
  • Oligarchy

• Humility and self-restraint is the True Objective of Kenpo

  

  Ed Parker
  • Art
  • True
  • Humility

• Bound as our lives are to the tyranny of time, it is through what we know of history that we are delivered from our bonds and escape - into time.

  

  A. L. Rowse
  • Time
  • History
  • Knows

• Man acts only when he is sure of the justness of his action, as we threw the bomb in the Legislative Assembly

  

  Bhagat Singh
  • Men
  • Action
  • Bombs

• Reckless action is worse than wise restraint.

  

  Danielle Trussoni
  • Action
  • Wise
  • Restraint

• When justices seize authority from the other branches of the federal government, as well as state and local governments, under the rubric of judicial review, that’s tyranny.

  

  Mark Levin
  • Justice
  • Authority
  • Tyranny

• I don't have any real "process." Some people in Nashville go in like an assembly line. They're able to go and write. My son runs a publishing company. He has writers that come down. They get together in a room with the people that actually make appointments, and write - which is great. I can't do that very well.

  

  Charlie Daniels
  • People
  • Great
  • Real

• It is only rogues who feel the restraints of law.

  

  J. G. Holland
  • Law
  • Restraint
  • Rogues

• 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
  • Humans
  • Virtue
  • Shame

• If a man be endowed with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility.

  

  Plato
  • Mind
  • Nobility
  • Endowed

• all the small squalors of the body, known only to oneself, insignificant in youth, easily dismissed, in old age became dominant and entered into fulfilment of the tyranny they had always threatened.

  

  Vita Sackville-West
  • Age
  • Youth
  • Tyranny

• In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Healthy
  • Nation
  • Tyranny

• How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Freedom
  • Danger
  • Tyranny

• The highest type of free men should be sought where the highest resistance is constantly overcome: five steps from tyranny, close to the threshold of the danger of servitude.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Danger
  • Tyranny
  • Resistance

• The power of the state to impose restraints and burdens upon persons and property in conservation and promotion of the public health, good order, and prosperity is a power originally and always belonging to the states, not surrendered to them by the general government, nor directly restrained by the constitution of the United States, and essentially exclusive.

  

  Melville Fuller
  • Constitution
  • Prosperity
  • Burden

• I want Americans to know that Guantánamo​ happened not to monsters, but to men. Innocent men.

  

  Lakhdar Boumediene
  • Men
  • Guantánamo

• To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Gods
  • Novels
  • Meals

• Capitalists are motivated not chiefly by the desire to consume wealth or indulge their appetites, but by the freedom and power to consummate their entrepreneurial ideas.

  

  George Gilder
  • Desire
  • inspirational
  • Wealth

• The true leader must submerge himself in the fountain of the people.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • People
  • Leader
  • Fountain

• 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
  • Tyranny
  • Nobility
  • Restraint