Quotes About Restraint

I never made any public statements. At least, I tried never to make any public statements.

I want to stay away from controversies.

Stay small and control it yourself.

I want to show I can control my emotion and aggression and stay calm.

I had said before that I'd never write an autobiography because I've been around, and there's a lot that I've seen and heard that stays with me. That's just mine. I didn't want to do a kiss-and-tell, as some of my peers have.

You can't steal every scene. There are scenes in which you need to sit back and do a lot less, verbally, physically.

I know I've had an attitude that can explode, but I'm trying my best to not step out of bounds.

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.

Be not extravagantly high in expression of thy commendations of men thou likest, it may make the hearer's stomach rise.

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Search not a wound too deep lest thou make a new one.

She smiles at the feast where gay nobles are met, But she thinks of the knight she was told to forget.

A wise and frugal government ... shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government

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

A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement.

No more good must be attempted than the people can bear.

That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.

The press, confined to truth, needs no other legal restraint.

Power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don't

Most people learn to save themselves by artificially limiting the content of consciousness.

As Zapffe concluded, we need to hamper our consciousness for all we are worth or it will impose upon us a too clear vision of what we do not want to see,

No society could survive—and surely no society could be decent—if everybody in it were able to communicate everything. —Daniel J. Boorstin

That government is best which governs least.