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• There cannot be self-restraint in the absence of desire: when there is no adversary, what avails thy courage? Hark, do not castrate thyself, do not become a monk: chastity depends on the existence of lust.

  Rumi

  Self, Lust, Desire

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• There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few.

  Van Wyck Brooks

  Religious, Ignorance, Political

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• Try to gather the strength to live as brother and sister after one or two children are born. This is essential for reaping the full benefit of spiritual practice and to make spiritual progress through mental restraint.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Relationship, Spiritual, Brother

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• The story of man is the history, first, of the acceptance and imposition of restraints necessary to permit communal life; and second, of the emancipation of the individual within that system of necessary restraints.

  Abe Fortas

  Freedom, Acceptance, Men

  Abe Fortas (1968). “Concerning Dissent and Civil Disobedience”

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• Self-government requires qualities of self-denial and restraint.

  John F. Kennedy

  Government, Self, Democracy

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• I'll tell you where the injustice is. It's with the person earning £12,000 to £15,000-a-year who is being asked to be restrained by their business or employer. Yet the taxpayer has bailed out the banks, so why are they not showing restraint?

  Prince Andrew

  Years, Earning, Injustice

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• Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Art, Freedom

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I appreciate a songwriter like Morrissey with so much restraint.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Appreciate, Songwriters

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• Members of royal families are born into a world of indulgence and entitlement, and the princelings who grow up that way may never have to develop the emotional musculature that will allow them to show self-restraint.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Growing Up, Emotional, Self

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• Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Leadership, Integrity, Character

  Lewis H. Lapham (1985). “High Technology and Human Freedom”

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• There is a Passion natural to the Mind of man, especially a free Man, which renders him impatient of Restraint.

  George Mason

  Passion, Men, Mind

  George Mason's letter to the Committee of Merchants in London, June 6, 1766.

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• In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Self, Revolution, Ethics

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• Our runaway judiciary is badly in need of restraint by Congress.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Needs, Runaway, Congress

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• 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.'

  Ayelet Waldman

  Children, Writing, Giving

  "Living Out Loud — Online". The Salon column, www.salon.com. March 14, 2005.

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• When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education . . . the time will come when men are carried away and lose all self-restraint . . . . It is not necessary to do violence to such a people in order to strip them of the rights they enjoy; they themselves willingly loosen their hold. . . . they neglect their chief business which is to remain their own masters.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Men, Rights, Self

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• This that is tormented and very tired, tortured with restraints like a madman, this heart.

  Rumi

  Broken Heart, Spiritual, Tired

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.36, Penguin UK

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• You have the blood of warriors in your veins. The kind of men who protect what is theirs and love without restraint. I want that love and I want you. (Gabrielle) It’s all yours. You’re not getting much out of this deal since all I own is what I can carry in two hands. (Carlos) Great. That means I get to decorate the house the way I want. (Gabrielle)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mean, Warrior, Men

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• Man, wow, there's so many things to do, so many things to write! How to even begin to get it all down and without modified restraints and all hung-up on like literary inhibitions and grammatical fears.

  Jack Kerouac

  Writing, Men, Down And

  Jack Kerouac (1957). “On the Road”, Viking Press

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• The Church's stand on birth control is the most absolutely spiritual of all her stands and with all of us being materialists at heart, there is little wonder that it causes unease. I wish various fathers would quit trying to defend it by saying that the world can support 40 billion. I will rejoice the day when they say: This is right whether we all rot on top of each other or not, dear children, as we certainly may. Either practice restraint or be prepared for crowding.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Spiritual, Children, Father

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• We forget that, although freedom of speech constitutes an important victory in the battle against old restraints, modern man is in a position where much of what "he" thinks and says are the things that everybody else thinks and says; that he has not acquired the ability to think originally - that is, for himself - which alone gives meaning to his claim that nobody can interfere with the expression of his thoughts.

  Erich Fromm

  Men, Thinking, Expression

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.111, Open Road Media

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• For though, as we have said, all children are heartless, this is not precisely true of teenagers. Teenage hearts are raw and new, fast and fierce, and they do not know their own strength. Neither do they know reason or restraint, and if you want to know the truth, a goodly number of grown-up hearts never learn it.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Teenage, Children, Heart

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.316, Macmillan

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• In my definition I am a protest writer, with restraint.

  Chinua Achebe

  Definitions, Protest

  Chinua Achebe (2012). “There Was a Country: A Memoir”, p.46, Penguin

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• Humility, which Burke ranked high among the virtues, is the only effectual restraint upon this congenital vanity; yet our world has nearly forgotten the nature of humility. Submission to the dictates of humility formerly was made palatable to man by the doctrine of grace; that elaborate doctrine has been overwhelmed by modern presumption.

  Russell Kirk

  Humility, Men, Vanity

  Russell Kirk (2014). “The Essential Russell Kirk: Selected Essays”, p.364, Open Road Media

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• Self confidence is the ability to exercise restraint in the face of disrespect and still show respect in response.

  Simon Sinek

  Self Confidence, Exercise, Disrespect

  Twitter post from Mar 21, 2012

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• There is an inherent tendency in all governmental power to recognize no restraints on its operation and to extend the sphere of its dominion as much as possible. To control everything, to leave no room for anything to happen of its own accord without the interference of the authorities--th is is the goal for which every ruler secretly strives.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Goal, Dominion, Rooms

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Liberalism: The Classical Tradition: The Economist”, p.53, VM eBooks

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