#restrain

It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#find #i #less #lust #many

Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#comfort #common #common enemy #cordial #deny

By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint. ↗

— Sextus Propertius

#been #end #every #faith #gold

You balance the budget by restraining the growth of government and encouraging the growth of the private sector. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#budget #encouraging #government #growth #private

Some people object to libertarian ideas because there are too many irresponsible people in the world - people who will cause trouble if the government doesn't restrain them. ↗

— Harry Browne

#cause #government #ideas #irresponsible #libertarian

If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#claim #effective #evil #good #power

Liberty has restraints but no frontiers. ↗

— David Lloyd George

#liberty #restraints

There are the further difficulties of building a population out of a diversity of races, each at a different stage of cultural evolution, some in need of restraint, many in need of protection; everywhere a bewildering Babel of tongues. ↗

— Arthur Keith

#bewildering #building #cultural #different #difficulties

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#diplomacy #power #restraining

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#failing #own #restrain #violence #youth