Quotes About Restraint

Finally, Madison dismissed religion as an effective restraint on oppressive mass behavior: "The inefficacy of this restraint on individuals is well known," and experience shows that religion "has been much oftener a motive to oppression than a restraint from it.

a majority when united by a common interest or passion cannot be restrained from oppressing the minority, what remedy can be found in a republican Government, where the majority must ultimately decide?

I neither could nor would rule my King. But there's a little. . . little, area... where I must rule myself.

Leash: n, a means by which animals, formerly running wild, are prevented from running tame, also.

Take no revenge that you have not pondered beneath a starry sky, or on a canyon overlook, or to the lapping of waves and the mewing of a distant gull.

Ah, the things we would do if we could — especially in the secure knowledge that we can't.

Oh, the things that go through my mind that I never say. Oh, the things I say that never go through my mind.

The toughest test of good judgment is to know when to withhold your better judgment.

We all know the part of us that needs to be harnessed. It takes someone else to know the part of us that needs to be set free.

Wings are a constraint that makes it possible to fly.

So free we seem, so fettered fast we are!

When the liquor's out, why clink the cannikin?

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

This is the monstrosity in love, lady, that the will is infinite, and the execution confined; that the desire is boundless, and the act a slave to limit. —William Shakespeare

Half of your mastery of power comes from what you do NOT do, what you do not ALLOW yourself to get dragged into.

What withdraws, what becomes scarce, suddenly seems to deserve our respect and honor. What stays too long, inundating us with its presence, makes us disdain it.

em mim, e manter sob controle rigoroso

Plus vous vous laissez aller à parler, plus vous avez l'air banal et peu maître de vous-même. Même anodines, vos paroles sembleront originales si elles restent vagues et énigmatiques. Les personnages puissants impressionnent et intimident parce qu'ils sont peu loquaces. Plus vous en dites et plus vous risquez de dire des bêtises.

lesson: Once the words are out, you cannot take them back. Keep them under control. Be particularly careful with sarcasm: The momentary satisfaction you gain with your biting words will be outweighed by the price you pay.

It is sometimes best to leave things alone. If there is something you want but cannot have, show contempt for it. The less interest you reveal, the more superior you seem.

Once you step into a fight that is not of your own choosing, you lose all initiative. The combatants' interests become your interests; you become their tool. Learn to control yourself, to restrain your natural tendency to take sides and join the fight. Be friendly and charming to each of the combatants, then step back as they collide. With every battle they grow weaker, while you grow stronger with every battle you avoid.

Daily Law: Instead of merely reacting, step back and look at the wider context. Consider the ramifications of any action you take. Realize that is often better to do nothing, to not react, to let time go by and see what it reveals.

In some people the rider is too strong, holds the reins too tightly, and is afraid to occasionally let the animal go into a gallop.