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“Moral decay first hampers and then strangles honest government, regular commerce, and even the ability to take genuine pleasure in the goods of this world. Compulsion is applied from above as self-discipline relaxes below, and the last liberties expire under the weight of a unitary state.... Since religion has lost its empire over the souls of men, the most prominent boundary that divided good from evil is overthrown; kings and nations are guided by chance and none can say where are the natural limits of despotism and the bound of license.”

“In the great artist you see daring bound by discipline and discipline stretched by daring.”

Artist Discipline Bounds Daring Great Art Great Artist

Author:Robert Breault

“The worst effect of tutelage is that it negates self-discipline, and therefore people suddenly released from it are almost bound to make fools of themselves.”

People Self Worst Effects Fool Discipline Bounds Self Discipline Tutelage

Author:Suzanne La Follette

“Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. The man who does not shrink from self-crucifixion can never fail to accomplish the object upon which his heart is set. This is true of earthly as of heavenly things. Even the man whose object is to acquire wealth must be prepared to make great personal sacrifices before he can accomplish his object; and how much more so he who would realize a strong and well-poised life.”

“Repression is not the way to virtue. When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. Only through freely chosen discipline can life be enjoyed and still kept within the bounds of reason.”

People Way Stills Reason Life Is Virtue Discipline Bounds Chosen Enjoyed Repression

Book:Flow: the psychology of optimal experience

Source: Flow: the psychology of optimal experience

“Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.”

Men Literature Change Ignorance Discipline Circumstances Self Improvement Bounds Improvement Anxious Self Discipline Unwilling A Man Thinketh Personal Sacrifice

Book:As a Man Thinketh

Source: As a Man Thinketh

“No doubt it is an evil to be bound by laws, but it is necessary at the immature stage to be guided by rules; in other words, as the Master used to say that the sapling must be hedged round, and so on.”

Law Used Evil Doubt Stage Masters Discipline Bounds Rounds No Doubt Immature Saplings

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda