John Locke
Philosopher, Physician
"Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others"
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Restraint
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Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"Restraint never ruins one's health."
Jim Rohn
Author, Motivational Speaker
"Tyranny knows no restraint of appetite."
B. F. Skinner
Psychologist, Behaviorist
"But restraint is the only one sort of control, and absence of restraint isn't freedom. It's not control that's lacking when one feels 'free', but the objectionable control of force."
George Washington
Military Leader, Politician
"A people unused to restraint must be led, they will not be drove."
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"Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?"
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"The true nature of man left to himself without restraint is not nobility but savagery."
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"I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far."
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"More caution and perhaps more restraint are necessary in breaking a fast than in keeping it."
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"Some wounds grow worse beneath the surgeon's hand; Better that they were not touched at all."
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"Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint."
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"Everything must be free to be written and published without restraint."
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"What is it that every man seeks? To be secure, to be happy, to do what he pleases without restraint and without compulsion."
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"It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself."
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"restraint equals indulgence"
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"In my definition I am a protest writer, with restraint."
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"Exercise humility and restraint."
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"Bounds should be set To ingenuity for being so cruel In bringing change unheralded on the unready."
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"Wage restraint was helping businesses out and now it's not. Have we tipped over the edge? Maybe not, but the trend in wages is moving higher."
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"Come, let’s be calm: no one incapable of restraint was ever a writer."
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