Quotes About Restraint

All philosophy lies in two words sustain and abstain.

It's all about control.

There are things we cannot vocalise because the repercussions of particular thoughts have the power to break lives.

Life is a prison in which we find ourselves.

Poetry fettered fetters the human race.

What I try to do is to keep emotion on a tight leash; otherwise, it can never be transubstantiated into poetry.

It would be nice if all the Republicans could put poetry in a little box and put the box under the bed and sit on it, but they can't.

I sang in my chains like the sea

Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.

We can't make any statements here. We can't talk about the internal politics of Paraguay.

The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen's behavior, it was writtne to restrain the government's behavior.

Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.

Democracy, in its best state, is but the politics of Bedlam; while kept chained, its thoughts are frantic, but when it breaks loose, it kills the keeper, fires the building, and perishes.

No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear

Never lose your temper with the Press or the public is a major rule of political life.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to bind, imprison and destroy.

In all the poems I've written I've not really engaged in politics, and when I've found myself moving in that direction I've always stopped myself.

When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it.

What I learned in politics (is that) it's a very enslaving place to be. It's hard to be free in politics and if the search for your spirit is to be free, it's hard.

I realize it's probably best to keep my politics to myself.

The emperor would prefer the poet to keep away from politics, the emperor's domain, so that he can manage things the way he likes.

By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.