Quotes About Restraint

The power of a king was not absolute, after all: it could be restrained by the will of the people.

Any fool can get into a fight, but a wise man knows how to stay out of them.

Philip couldn't fornicate if you put him in a barrel with three whores.

Una de las mejores cualidades de aquél era su habilidad para mantenerse callado cuando debía hacerlo.

Nosotros creemos estar experimentando la austeridad, pero no conocemos el significado de la palabra.

Odraslele regale se bucurau de toate lucrurile bune ale vie?ii, mai pu?in de libertate.

The best of all possible cages.' Ben stepped back to regard the job with a sad smile. 'What more can one ask?

Ratched shall line us all against the wall, where we'll face the terrible maw of a muzzle-loading shotgun which she has loaded with Miltowns! Thorazines! Libriums! Stelazines! And with a wave of her sword, blooie! Tranquilize all of us completely out of existence.

Mi-a zis ca un om care-a tacut atata amar de vreme avea pesemne multe de spus, dupa care se intinse la loc pe perna si astepta. Eu ma straduii un minut sa-i zic ceva, dar singurele lucruri care-mi venira in minte erau din acelea pe care un om nu le poate spune altuia in cuvinte.

He didn't feel he had the ability to follow her into those reveries or the right to call her back out.

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.

Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.

Power should be a check on power.

The virtue of democracy is that is has placed limits on the absoluteness of power.

It is not the source but the limitation of power which prevents it from being arbitrary.

Sometimes our power resides not in what we do, but in what we don't do.

He who has great power should use it lightly.

I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.

A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster.

The greatest power available to man is not to use it.

I shuddered to think how completely the insane were in the power of their keepers, and how one could weep and plead for release, and all of no avail, if the keepers were so minded.

Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

We should have a strong president. Strong enough to resist the temptation of taking power that a president shouldn't have.

When power is for sale, then government power should be severely limited. When power is abused, then the less power the better.