Restraint Quotes

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

The reins of government have been so long slackened, that I fear the people will not quietly submit to those restraints which are necessary for the peace and security of the community.

The other side of commandment is conquest. What seems restraint to the outsider means release to you.

Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.

What is hell other than a realm in which unholiness works without restraint in body and soul?

In its restraint, should be only felt but not perceived by the reader.

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.

I appreciate a songwriter like Morrissey with so much restraint.