Quotes About Restraint

It is characteristic of the radical that he thinks of power as a force for good—so long as the power falls into his hands. In the name of liberty, the French and Russian revolutionaries abolished the old restraints upon power; but power cannot be abolished; it always finds its way into someone's hands. That power which the revolutionaries had thought oppressive in the hands of the old regime became many times as tyrannical in the hands of the radical new masters of the state.

The conservative knows that freedom without any restraints may lead to oppression or anarchy, just as government without any restraints may lead to collectivism. But he believes the best and most effective restraint upon anarchic individualism to be obedience to moral law, the private conscience.

To begin with unlimited freedom," Dostoevsky wrote, "is to end with unlimited despotism.

We are graced with a godlike ability to transcend time and space in our minds but are chained to death.

The important thing was that we were being polite and not saying all the things that were making us unhappy, which was the only way we knew how to love each other.

Collect yourself: to smother what you feel, recall to order, summon in one place; making, like Orpheus, a system against loss.

Aren't we all in varying degrees, captives in our own personal prisons, bound by our limiting habits?

Leave the table hungry. Leave the bed sleepy. Leave the table thirsty. Here

is what I have to do, she thought firmly, so I'm doing it. As her dear, incarcerated father was fond of saying, wishing that things were different didn't make it so.

It is easy to kill. It is equally easy to destroy glass windows. Any fool can do either. Why is it only the wise who perceive that it is wisdom to let live, when even lunatics can sometimes understand that it is better to open a window than to smash the glass?

Stress" is mostly the result of not being allowed to kill some asshole you really want to slice and dice.

bir müddet daha dü?ününce dünyada da hiçbir yere ba?l? olmad???n? hissetti ve içten içe bu kadar yabanc? oldu?u bu hayatta kendisini birçok kay?tlar?n ku?atmas?na, ondan, istedi?i gibi bir hareket imkanlar?n? almas?na müthi? içerledi.

Bir mahpusu dünya ile hiç alakas? olmayan bir zindana kapamak ona en büyük iyili?i yapmakt?r. Onu en çok yere vuran ?ey, hürriyetin elle tutulacak kadar yak?n?nda bulunmak, ayn? zamanda ondan ne kadar uzak oldu?unu bilmektir. On ad?m ötede en büyük hürriyetlere götüren denizi dinlemek ve sonra aradaki kal?n kale duvarlar?na gözleri dikerek bakmaya, denizi yaln?z muhayyilede görmeye mecbur kalmak az azap m?d?r?

What is living religion? It is the human soul growing towards the Ideal, throwing out tendrils here and there, and ever ascending from bud to bloom; ever enriched by the fact of its perfectability, operating incessantly on the trammels an establishment may lace around it, straining them and bursting them, ever seeking its proper expansion, and ever therefore impatient of restraint.

just because you can have something doesn't mean you should.

Even a ship can become a prison if all you see around you are bars.

Most people cannot handle freedom. They are always trying to bind themselves, but only talking , mouthing freedom all the time because freedom needs courage , freedom needs a certain madness

kriya yoga cannot be done with people who talk "freedom" all the time. It is not for people who keep asking, "Why am I not free to eat my ice cream? Why can't I wake up whenever I feel like it? Why can't I eat, drink, or have sex with whatever, whoever, whenever I feel like?" If you take the path of kriya, a certain fundamental discipline has to be brought into all physical, psychological, and emotional processes.

Let's cool it, brothers.

The more hate was permitted to lash out when there were ways it could have been checked, the more bold the hate became

Many animals experience pain, anxiety and suffering, physically and psychologically, when they are held in captivity or subjected to starvation, social isolation, physical restraint, or painful situations from which they cannot escape. Even if it is not the same experience of pain, anxiety, or suffering undergone by humans- or even other animals, including members of the same species- an individual's pain, suffering, and anxiety matter.

You can't pull a gun just because a crazy person wants to talk to you. If I did that I'd never get through a family Christmas.

I am constantly approached by people who are willing to go to any extreme for personal safety...except practicing basic emotional control.

Se le plantó delante, casi hasta tocarlo con el cuerpo. Los brazos que ahora lo rodeaban no comunicaban pasión sino contención, un gesto de madre, de quien sostiene una maceta rota para no desparramar tierra por doquier, para evitar algo peor.