Quotes About Restraint

I do not like violence.

I ain't never liked violence.

Resorting to violence and the use of force at holy sites is unacceptable, whatever the reason might be.

The use of violence by individuals... is not a position that I support or would ever want to be in again.

One should not evoke violence by acting fearful.

It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas.

I myself am a very nonviolent person and only resort to violence when I absolutely have to.

I don't like violence.

I'm not someone who is a fan of a lot of violence.

I'm a very great non-violent character. I would never resort to violence to change anything.

Civilisation is partly about restraining the male of the species from engaging in the violence of the hunter-gatherer period. But it doesn't take an awful lot to unleash it.

I am not a violent person. I actually don't like to hurt people.

Well, I'm not a violent person. You have to back off. People sometimes will try you and try you until you try not to, but you have to react. Normally, I just walk away.

I'm not a violent person at all, and I don't want to show violence for violent's sake.

I was angry when I was young, but I was never really that violent. I hardly ever fought, mainly because I wasn't very good at it.

I tend to approach giving interviews with the same sense of circumspection and restraint as I approach my writing. That is to say, virtually none. When asked what I made of blogs like my own, blogs written by parents about their children, I said, 'A blog like this is narcissism in its most obscene flowering.'

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.

Impatience is a virtue.

The love of power, like the love of money, increases with the possession of it; and we know in what ruin these baneful passions have involved human societies in all ages when they have been let loose and suffered to rage uncontrolled - There is no restraint like the pervading eye of the virtuous citizens.

If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good.

Laws don't really restrain people. Ninety-eight percent of people follow a virtuous course with or without laws.

Visibility doesn't always equal freedom.

Visibility is dangerous because if a guy cuts you off in traffic, you can't call him a name - it might get to the press.