#restrain

Liberty has restraints but no frontiers. ↗

— David Lloyd George

#liberty #restraints

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

The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence. ↗

— Adam Smith

#customers #discipline #effectual #employment #exercised

Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened. ↗

— Madame de Stael

#him #increased #makes #man #moral

Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires, and I knew that first I had to get myself definitely out of that tangle back home. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#love #relationships #restraint #rules #love

...we see this tendency to throw off restraints in life, in art - it's an inglorious gesture of thumbing the nose - it makes me laugh... ↗

— John Geddes

#free-spirited #restraints #art

People hide their truest nature. I understood that; I even applauded it. What sort of world would it be if people bled all over the sidewalks, if they wept under trees, smacked whomever they despised, kissed strangers, revealed themselves? ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#stoicism #nature

The pro-growth policies and spending restraint of Conservatives work. ↗

— Zach Wamp

#policies #pro-growth #pro-growth policies #restraint #spending

I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far. ↗

— Mae West

#go #i #like #restraint #too

Not exactly hit them, but I've restrained a few people. ↗

— Chuck Zito

#few #few people #hit #i #people