#restrain

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace. ↗

— Andre Gide

#combat #direct #easier #labors #lead

The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#imagination #itself #limits #probability #restrains

Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#evolution #only #preliminary #self-restraint #sexual

For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community. ↗

— Joe Biden

#common #community #individualism #long #over

Dangerous because your present Administration and its specialized agencies by all accounts know no restraint in hitting out at any perceived enemy of America, and nobody or nothing can protect one from their vindictiveness. ↗

— Breyten Breytenbach

#administration #agencies #america #any #because

Al Qaeda is nothing more than a mutant supply chain. They're playing off the same platform as Wal-Mart and Dell. They're just not restrained by it. What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain. That's what we're up against in Iraq. We're up against a suicide supply chain. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#al #chain #dell #global #iraq

The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language. ↗

— Robert Fripp

#form #in fact #language #musical #possible

I do not see any beauty in self-restraint. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#beauty #i #i do #see #self-restraint

One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights. ↗

— James K. Polk

#great #just #majorities #minorities #object

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