#strain

I have been thinking ... that the social moulds civilization fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of the constellations have to the real star-patterns. I am called Mrs. Richard Phillotson, living a calm wedded life with my counterpart of that name. But I am not really Mrs. Richard Phillotson, but a woman tossed about, all alone, with aberrant passions, and unaccountable antipathies… ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#social-constraints #nature

It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#anything #back #commit #doing #drink

After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible. ↗

— Barbara Deming

#could #cut #harm #little #might

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

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

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#claim #effective #evil #good #power

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#eyes #great #great deal #often #restrained

It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don't think anybody has held this job who hasn't felt personally responsible for those being killed. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#anybody #being #felt #hasn #held

Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in. ↗

— Florence King

#metaphors #nothing #say #strain #who

I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality, but I can try to use that as a positive force for healing and restraint. ↗

— Rodney King

#brutality #child #force #healing #i

Television is so dictated by time constraints that you have to make quick decisions and go with them. ↗

— Ted Shackelford

#decisions #dictated #go #make #quick