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“The constitutional right of free expression... is designed and intended to remove governmental restraints from the arena of public discussion, putting the decision as to what views shall be voiced in the hands of each of us, in the hope that the use of such freedom will ultimately produce a more capable citizenry and more perfect polity and in the belief that no other approach would comport with the premise of individual dignity and choice upon which our political systems rests.”

“The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity, in unity, in clarity, and in restraint.”

Language Genius Unity Simplicity Contrary Clarity Latin Restraint French Language

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)

“Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.”

Religion Literature Lays Companion Restraint Troublesome

Book:Works ...

Source: Works ...

“The work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint.”

Grows Work Luxury Labour Restraint Luxurious Paradise Lost Book 9 Paradise Lost Book 1

Book:Poetical Works: With a Preface, Biographical and Critical

Source: Poetical Works: With a Preface, Biographical and Critical

“To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint. They are eager to barter their independence for relief from the burdens of willing, deciding and being responsible for inevitable failure. They willingly abdicate the directing of their lives to those who want to plan, command and shoulder all responsibility.”

Want Responsibility Plans Willing Responsible Independence Burden Shoulders Tyranny Command Inevitable Attractive Relief Frustrated Restraint Being Responsible

Book:THE TRUE BELIEVER

Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER

“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.”

Persons Reason Law Justice Numbers Security Equal Equality Secure Restraint No Respect

Book:Addresses and Orations of Rufus Choate

Source: Addresses and Orations of Rufus Choate

“If the true freedom of the press is to decide for itself what to publish and when to publish it, the true responsibility of the press must be to assert and defend that freedom... What the press in America needs is less inhibition, not more restraint.”

Ifs Needs America Responsibility Presses Restraint Publish Freedom Of The Press True Freedom Inhibitions

Author:Tom Wicker

“Tyranny knows no restraint of appetite.”

Knows Tyranny Appetite Restraint

Author:Jim Rohn

“There is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint.”

Inspirational Self Limits Restraint Indulgence Self Restraint Self Indulgence

Book:Young India

Source: Young India

“Destructive thoughts and emotions undermine the very causes of peace and happiness. If you think clearly about it, it makes no sense to think you’re seeking happiness, if you do nothing to restrain angry, spiteful, and malicious thoughts and emotions.”

Ifs Thinking Causes Emotion Angry Seeking Happy Destructive Restraint Peace And Happiness Malicious Undermining Restraining Spiteful Thoughts And Emotions Seeking Happiness

Author:Dalai Lama

“To be truly free, it takes more determination, courage, introspection, and restraint than to be in shackles.”

Determination Restraint Introspection Shackles

Author:Pietro Belluschi

“It's true that private enterprise is extremely flexible, But its only good within very narrow limits. If private enterprise isn't held in an iron grip it gives birth to people who are no better than beasts, those stock-exchange people with greedy appetites beyond restraint.”

People Ifs Giving Birth Limits Beast Enterprise Iron Appetite Restraint Greedy Flexible Private Enterprise Stock Exchange

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“There are many objects of desire, and therefore many desires. Some are born with us, hunger, yearning, and pride of place, and some are of the foolishness of the world, such as the desire to eat off silver plates. Desire is a wild horse to be tamed. Virtue is habit long continued. The taming of desire is like the training of an athlete. Discipline is not the restraint but the use of energy.”

“Dedication to goodness-dedication in response to an inner moral mandate rather than external restraint-was both the antidote to the pain and the source of great happiness.”

Pain Moral Source Goodness Response Dedication Restraint Antidote Great Happiness Mandates

Book:Pay Attention, for Goodness' Sake: Practicing the Perfections of the Heart--The Buddhist Path of Kindness

Source: Pay Attention, for Goodness' Sake: Practicing the Perfections of the Heart--The Buddhist Path of Kindness

“Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants.”

Want Real Term Civilization Restraint Deliberate Reduction Multiplication

Book:India of My Dreams

Source: India of My Dreams

“Some of the most frantic lies on the face of life are told with modesty and restraint; for the simple reason that only modesty and restraint will save them.”

Reason Faces Lying Simple Modesty Restraint Truth And Lies Frantic

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“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.”

“Restraint never ruins one's health.”

Ruins Restraint

Book:The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi

Source: The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi

“I shall content myself with merely declaring my firm conviction that, for the seeker who would live in fear of God and who would see Him face to face, restraint in diet both as to quantity and quality is as essential as restraint in thought and speech.”

Faces Quality Food Speech Essentials Conviction Firm Diets Quantity Restraint Seekers Face To Face Declaring Quantity And Quality

Book:All Men Are Brothers

Source: All Men Are Brothers

“Self-government requires qualities of self-denial and restraint.”

Self Government Quality Democracy Denial Restraint Self-denial Self-government

Author:John F. Kennedy

“A man who raises himself by degrees to wealth and power, contracts, in the course of this protracted labor, habits of prudence and restraint which he cannot afterwards shake off. A man cannot gradually enlarge his mind as he does his house.”

Men Mind Doe Success Courses House Wealth Habit Degrees Labor Raises Shakes Contracts Restraint Prudence

Book:Democracy in America

Source: Democracy in America

“More caution and perhaps more restraint are necessary in breaking a fast than in keeping it.”

Restraint Caution Fasting

Book:Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth

Source: Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth

“Our government is based on the belief that a people can be both strong and free, that civilized men need no restraint but that imposed by themselves against abuse of freedom.”

People Men Needs Government Belief Strong Liberty Abuse Civilized Restraint

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5

“Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?”

Philosophy Virtue Remove Restraint Severe

Author:Seneca the Younger

“It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.”

Men Manage Restraint Moderation

Author:Andre Gide

“A ship in dock, surrounded by quays and the walls of warehouses, has the appearance of a prisoner meditating upon freedom in the sadness of a free spirit put under restraint.”

Spirit Sadness Wall Appearance Ships Prisoner Restraint Meditating Free Spirit Warehouse Docks

Book:Under Western Eyes (Unabridged Deluxe Edition): An Intriguing Tale of Espionage and Betrayal in Czarist Russia From the Renowned Author of Heart of Darkness, Nostromo & The Secret Agent (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)

Source: Under Western Eyes (Unabridged Deluxe Edition): An Intriguing Tale of Espionage and Betrayal in Czarist Russia From the Renowned Author of Heart of Darkness, Nostromo & The Secret Agent (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)

“I would not unduly praise the virtue of restraint. It is often merely temperamental. But it is not always a sign of coldness. It may be pride. There can be nothing more humiliating than to see the shaft of one's emotion miss the mark of either laughter or tears. Nothing more humiliating! And this for the reason that should the mark be missed, should the open display of emotion fail to move, then it must perish unavoidably in disgust or contempt.”

Source: Joseph Conrad’s Sea Tales - Premium Collection: An Outcast of the Islands, The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’, A Smile of Fortune, Typhoon and more: Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)

“What is it that every man seeks? To be secure, to be happy, to do what he pleases without restraint and without compulsion.”

Men Freedom Please Every Man Secure Restraint Compulsion

Book:All the Works of Epictetus: Which are Now Extant; Consisting of His Discourses, Preserved by Arrian, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments

Source: All the Works of Epictetus: Which are Now Extant; Consisting of His Discourses, Preserved by Arrian, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments

“There cannot be self-restraint in the absence of desire: when there is no adversary, what avails thy courage? Hark, do not castrate thyself, do not become a monk: chastity depends on the existence of lust.”

Self Desire Existence Depends Absence Lust Restraint Monk Thyself Adversaries Chastity Self Restraint

Author:Rumi

“Elephants suffer from too much patience. Their exhibitions of it may seem superb,-such power and such restraint, combined, are noble,-but a quality carried to excess defeats itself.”

May Seems Suffering Quality Too Much Defeat Noble Excess Restraint Elephants Exhibitions Superb

Book:This Simian World

Source: This Simian World

“There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few.”

World Political Religious Ignorance Authority Tendencies Restraint Stopping

Author:Van Wyck Brooks

“By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint.”

Has Beens Ends Law Rights Gold Modest Restraint Bribe Good Faith Bribery

Author:Propertius

“Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.”

Home Childhood Inspire Exercise Eating Parenting Redemption Diets Restraint Involvement Obesity Parental Physical Exercise Child Obesity Childhood Obesity Obesity Epidemic Parental Involvement

Author:Bob Filner

“Try to gather the strength to live as brother and sister after one or two children are born. This is essential for reaping the full benefit of spiritual practice and to make spiritual progress through mental restraint.”

Trying Children Two Spiritual Born Practice Progress Relationship Brother Essentials Benefits Restraint Brothers And Sisters Spiritual Practice Spiritual Progress

Author:Mata Amritanandamayi

“The story of man is the history, first, of the acceptance and imposition of restraints necessary to permit communal life; and second, of the emancipation of the individual within that system of necessary restraints.”

Men Firsts Stories Individual Freedom Acceptance Permit Restraint Emancipation Imposition

Book:Concerning Dissent and Civil Disobedience

Source: Concerning Dissent and Civil Disobedience

“An active propaganda machinery controlled bv the world's largest corporations constantly reassures us that consumerism is the path to happiness, governmental restraint of market excess is the cause our distress, and economic globalization is both a historical inevitability and a boon to the human species.”

“I'll tell you where the injustice is. It's with the person earning £12,000 to £15,000-a-year who is being asked to be restrained by their business or employer. Yet the taxpayer has bailed out the banks, so why are they not showing restraint?”

Years Persons Injustice Earning Restraint Employers Taxpayers

Author:Prince Andrew

“There are the further difficulties of building a population out of a diversity of races, each at a different stage of cultural evolution, some in need of restraint, many in need of protection; everywhere a bewildering Babel of tongues.”

Needs Different Race Stage Building Evolution Diversity Difficulty Population Protection Tongue Restraint Babel

Book:Evolution and Ethics

Source: Evolution and Ethics

“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.”

Ifs Way Heart Long Important Emotion Brain Birth Dust Persist Restraint Thoughts And Emotions

Author:Algernon Blackwood

“When you think back to your first kiss, your hair is perfect and she was wearing a cool outfit. We remember it with restraint and we remember it with style. We remember it as idealistically as you can think.”

Thinking Firsts Remember Perfect Style Hair Kissing Restraint First Kiss

Author:Stephen Chbosky

“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.”

People Should Wells Littles Might Cutting Revolution Harm Restraint

Book:We cannot live without our lives

Source: We cannot live without our lives

“Give us a chance to show you that those so-called protective laws to aid women - however well intentioned originally - have become in fact restraints, which keep wife, abandoned wife, and widow alike from supporting her family.”

Giving Wells Facts Shows Law Chance Wife Aids Abandoned Restraint Protective Widows Give Us A Chance

Author:Martha Griffiths

“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.”

People Feels Kind Shows Cases Audience Victim Plot Cop Episodes Restraint Nameless Faceless

Author:Mireille Enos

“The most challenging part of being a dad is self-restraint. So often your instinct is to teach and tell. I am constantly reminding myself to listen to them.”

Self Challenges Teach Dad Instinct Restraint Reminding Self Restraint Being A Dad

Author:Michael Chiklis