Quotes About Restraint

What do you tell a man with two black eyes? Nothing, he's already been told twice.

No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.

Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becomes a slave the moment he allows his actions to be ruled by passion.

Tis hard to fight with anger but the prudent man keeps it under control.

How can you call a man free when his pleasures rule over him.

You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.

When you are about to badger the weak, Then imagine yourself before a more powerful man.

There is a Passion natural to the Mind of man, especially a free Man, which renders him impatient of Restraint.

What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.

A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.

The man who is master of himself drinks gravely and wisely.

I used to drink, I did, I had to quit. Man, I was an embarrassing drunk. I'd get pulled over by the cops, I'd be so drunk I'd be out dancing to their lights thinking I'd made it to another club.

Man is free in his imagination, but bound by his reason.

Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

The superior man, extensively studying all learning, and keeping himself under the restraint of the rules of propriety, may thus likewise not overstep what is right.

Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do.

the federal government needs to be scaled back to a size where he can personally stomp it to death with steel-toed boots.

He was tempted to park the SUV illegally, since, according to his calculations, the authorities were not likely to catch up with him and demand payment of the parking ticket before the end of the world, but it seemed that most of the people of Seattle were still obeying the rules and so he did likewise.

Any power structure one of whose main goals was to prevent humans from fucking each other at will had to be extremely formidable.

Problem is not aggression. It is lack of discipline. A person can be aggressive and still be constructive in society if she controls her passions.

Sometimes it was better to say nothing than to fill a void badly.

I have come to the conclusion that the true benefit of religion is not to make people virtuous, which is impossible, but to put a sort of bridle on the worst excesses of their viciousness.

Absolute Power demands absolutely nothing.

Rather than having actual freedom, it seemed that, like animals in a habitat in the zoo, we had only the illusion of freedom. As long as we didn't try to leave the cage, we'd never know we weren't actually free.