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Letter "I" » in restraint
«Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| About:
Democracy,
Equality,
Socialism
| Keywords:
equality, in common, in restraint, restraint, servitude, socialism
«In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.»
Author: Simone de Beauvoir
(Writer)
| About:
Homosexuality
| Keywords:
capable, heterosexuality, homosexuality, ideal, in restraint, limiting, obligation, restraint
«But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Liberty,
Virtue,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
evils, folly, in restraint, madness, restraint, tuition, vice
«''Sex'' is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
allow, appetite, drinking, eating, false, in restraint, modesty, ought, restraint, satisfied, with modesty
«The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants them to do, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it»
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
(President)
| About:
Managers
| Keywords:
executive, in restraint, meddled, meddles, meddling, pick, restraint, self-restraint
«A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| About:
Change,
Opinions
| Keywords:
constitutional, free people, in restraint, popular opinion, restraint
«The serenity of mind, gentleness, silence, self-restraint, and the purity of mind are called the austerity of thought.»
Author: Bhagavad Gita
| Keywords:
austerities, austerity, gentleness, in restraint, purity, restraint, self-restraint, serenity
«I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far.»
«There are limits to self-indulgence, none to restraint.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
indulgence, indulgences, in restraint, limits, none, restraint, self-indulgence
«Grant that I may become beautiful in my soul within, and that all my external possessions may be in harmony with my inner self. May I consider the wise to be rich, and may I have such riches as only a person of self-restraint can bear or endure.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
All My, external, grant, harmony, in harmony, in restraint, possessions, restraint, riches, rich person, self-restraint, wise to
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