Restrains Quotes

One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.

Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

Before buying anything, it is well to ask if one could do without it.

Two purposes in human nature rule. Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain.

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

There are limits to self-indulgence, none to restraint.

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity;

for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated.

Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

It took me 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.

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue;

he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

I think people should have the legal right to hurt themselves without fearing that they're going to get locked up for doing so. But on a personal level, if someone I loved was hurting himself or herself in front of me, I would, of course, try to restrain them.

The chief duty of governments, in so far as they are coercive, is to restrain those who would interfere with the inalienable rights of the individual, among which are the right to life, the right to liberty, the right to the pursuit of happiness and the right to worship God according to the dictates of ones conscience.

The ultimate aim of government is not to rule, or restrain, by fear, nor to exact obedience, but contrariwise, to free every man from fear, that he may live in all possible security; in other words, to strengthen his natural right to exist and work without injury to himself or others.No, the object of government is not to change men from rational beings into beasts or puppets, but to enable them to develop their minds and bodies in security, and to employ their reason unshackled; neither showing hatred, anger, or deceit, nor watched with the eyes of jealousy and injustice. In fact, the true aim of government is liberty.

Only if we can restrain ourselves is good conversation possible.

Good talk rises upon much discipline.

The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.

Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice.

These are the things that form the education of the world.

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.

I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far.

A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.

The cause of violence is not ignorance.

It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment.

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

We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people.

We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.

We absolutely have to restrain concentrations of wealth in industry from spoiling the situation for everybody.

It is well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain its flights.

No administration could stop the tidal wave of immigration that swept over the land; no political party could restrain or control the enterprise of our people, and no reasonable man could desire to check the march of civilization.

Let us tell our legislators in advance, that this is a right, restraints on which, we will not, cannot bear; and that every attempt to restrain it is a palpable wrong on God and man.

In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool.

The Anarchists answer that the abolition of the State will leave in existence a defensive association, resting no longer on a compulsory but on a voluntary basis, which will restrain invaders by any means that may prove necessary.

To feel much for others and little for ourselves;

to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

I'm here today to warn you: I want you to watch out for the adversary.

Guard yourself from any spirit of entitlement. Restrain any and all subtle temptation to gain attention or to find ways to promote yourself.

It is not enough for us to restrain from doing evil, unless we shall also do good.

A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.