Quotes About Restraint

Liberty is not to be enjoyed, indeed it cannot exist, without the habits of just subordination; it consists, not so much in removing all restraint from the orderly, as in imposing it on the violent.

To begin with unlimited freedom is to end with unlimited despotism.

The securest place is a prison cell, but there is no liberty

Faced with the pain of freedom, man begs for his shackles.

What is freedom? There is no such thing as absolute freedom!

That there is also freedom in captivity, only a prisoner can claim. Coming from a prison guard, this statement would be blasphemy.

Discipline without freedom is tyranny; freedom without discipline is chaos.

Freedom is the dream you dream While putting thought in chains again --

Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

And I want to be held down. I don't know what to do with the horrifying freedom that can destroy me.

absolute liberty ... tends to corrupt absolutely.

In the cage there is food, not much, but there is food-outside are only great stretches of freedom.

Our freedom to discipline ourselves is a freedom we can lose if we don't use it.

The unrestrained freedom of thinking and of openly making known one's thoughts is not inherent in the rights of citizens and is by no means worthy of favor and support.

I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.

Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom.

The more security you seek, the less freedom you have.

In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires.

Freedom does not mean license.

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.

Anything you strive to hold captive will hold you captive, and if you desire freedom you must give freedom.

Limitation of means is a precondition of excellence. Creative freedom chooses its limitations. Destructive freedom rejects them heedlessly.