#restrain

Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire. ↗

— Henry Miller

#fire #honest #means #nothing #passion

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

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

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself. ↗

— Martin Luther

#betrays #breaks #cannot #confesses #faith

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

Let us tell our legislators in advance, that this is a right, restraints on which, we will not, cannot bear; and that every attempt to restrain it is a palpable wrong on God and man. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

#attempt #bear #cannot #every #god

The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity, in unity, in clarity, and in restraint. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#contrary #descended #direction #french #french language

When you give yourself to me, completely, I will bite you. Until then, my love, I will only nibble on you.”~Cole ↗

— Tina Carreiro

#hunger #love #paranormal #restraint #romance

We are what we are, Nial, neither as good or as evil as others paint us. And what we are doesn't change how truly we feel, only how free we are to follow those feelings. ↗

— Melissa Marr

#emotions #feelings #free #irial #niall