Restraint Quotes

• The first thing to understand is the difference between the natural person and the fictitious person called a corporation. They differ in the purpose for which they are created, in the strength which they possess, and in the restraints under which they act.

  

  William Jennings Bryan
  • Purpose
  • Natural
  • Corporations

• 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
  • Vulgar
  • Trifling

• It dawned upon me that fasting could be made as powerful a weapon of indulgence as of restraint.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Weapon
  • Restraint
  • Fasting

• The law is the only sure protection of the weak, and the only efficient restraint upon the strong.

  

  Millard Fillmore
  • Strong
  • Protection
  • Restraint

• Judicial restraint is a buzzword just like activist judge. Everybody's in favor of judicial restraint, but what does it mean? If it means not acting as a check against majoritarian excesses or upholding constitutional rights against improper government action, then restraint is not something admirable.

  

  Evan Wolfson
  • Judge
  • Constitutional Right
  • Government action

• I admire the poetic relationship to place as enacted in Wallace Stevens' poems; his poetics strikes me as an argument against the restraints of realism.

  

  Cate Marvin
  • Argument
  • Admire
  • Realism

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

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Violence
  • Liberty
  • Restraint

• A lot of cop shows, because they have the restraints of having a new case every episode, the victims often become these kind of nameless, faceless plot points, and as an audience we don't feel anything for those people.

  

  Mireille Enos
  • People
  • Episodes
  • Faceless

• The cardinal virtue of all beauty is restraint.

  

  Elsie de Wolfe
  • Beauty
  • Virtue
  • Restraint

• There are so many ways of classifying our tendencies, but I think one of the most telling must be this: there are those of us who do not wrestle very often or for very long with our appetites, who can simply say, Enough, and walk away, and those of us who are constantly at odds with how much we desire and what we actually allow ourselves. The gay between desire and restraint: here rages the river of discontent, one that often threatens to overflow its banks.

  

  Christine Sneed
  • Desire
  • Ways
  • Tendencies

• Practice restraint over the following: appetite, first, as well as sleep, lust, and anger.

  

  Pythagoras
  • Practice
  • Appetite
  • Restraint

• Elegance is something more than ease; it is more than a freedom from awkwardness or restraint. It implies, I conceive, a precision, a polish, a sparkling, spirited yet delicate.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Elegance
  • Delicate
  • Restraint

• Robert believed in restraint. He made it a point not to emulate his father. He refused to be the kind of man who took a woman just because he fancied her. But, damn it, sometimes he wished he were. He wished he were with every part of his being.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • Father
  • Woman
  • Her

• What I believe...about more sleep than is needful concerns the individual who goes far beyond the need, developing slothful and lazy habits, which deaden the senses and become a retarder of accomplishment. To overcome these things in life requires discipline and restraint.

  

  Alvin R. Dyer
  • Discipline
  • Need
  • Restraint

• The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.

  

  Rufus Choate
  • Government
  • Finals
  • Restraint

• I emphasize the reply that the liberty which a citizen enjoys is to be measured, not by the nature of the governmental machinery he lives under, whether representative or other, but by the relative paucity of the restraints it imposes on him.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Enjoy
  • Liberty
  • Citizens

• 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
  • Respect
  • Reason
  • Security

• I developed the concept of the Happy Warrior as a rallying cry for those of us who want to restore America to its great foundational principles: individual freedom, personal responsibility, fiscal restraint, and economic liberty.

  

  Monica Crowley
  • Personal
  • Concept
  • Developed

• A people unused to restraint must be led, they will not be drove.

  

  George Washington
  • People
  • Restraint

• We can't have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.

  

  William Howard Taft
  • Exercise
  • Decent
  • Restraint

• Actors must practice restraint, else think what might happen in a love scene.

  

  Cedric Hardwicke
  • Actors
  • Scene
  • Restraint

• Love letters lack taste. No restraint: falling off cliffs, going up in flames.

  

  Cathleen Schine
  • Taste
  • Letters
  • Flames

• If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good.

  

  Morris Raphael Cohen
  • Cannot
  • Effective
  • Restraint

• The difference between a stable society and an unstable one is that the restraints in an unstable one are external. In a stable society government ultimately becomes unnecessary; the restraints on people's actions are internal, they're self-disciplined.

  

  Carroll Quigley
  • People
  • Action
  • Government

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