Lack of Restraint Quotes

When secularization has had its full sway, it will leave a generation devoid of shame. And if you show me a generation that lacks shame, I will show you a generation that is monstrous in its appetite... never satisfied.

The more expansive government is, the more perils people face in daily lives, be it from IRS agents or from child support services, or from other agencies that often have little or no legal restraints on their power.

The 'reality' shows on television, the Internet, these things have encouraged people to behave with less and less restraint. We are broadcasting our emotions in public in a way that has never happened before.

Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.

In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.

I'm not the most patient of people.

If I were a young man With my bones full of marrow, Oh, if I were a bold young man Straight as an arrow, I'd store up no virtue For Heaven's distant plain, I'd live at ease as I did please And sin once again.

No fool can be silent at a feast.

If you neglect to exercise self-control, you are not only likely to injure others, but you are sure to injure yourself!

He has no control over his mouth. He will say anything that flits across his frontal lobe.

It's interesting that at a time when she could have differentiated herself from the ranks of [Democratic National Committee Chairman] Howard Dean and Nancy Pelosi and the far left ranks of the Democratic Party, she chose to join those on the front ranks of the blame game, It would have been interesting if she had shown some level of restraint.

I'm not a very patient person in general.

Freedom means the freedom to behave coarsely, basely, foolishly.

I'm more prone to anarchy than I am to control - even though I'm a film director.

Either wealth is much increased, or moderation is much decayed.

We must face the fact that many today are notoriously careless in their living. This attitude finds its way into the church. We have liberty, we have money, we live in comparative luxury. As a result, discipline has disappeared. What would a violin solo sound like if the strings on the musician's instrument were all hanging loose, not stretched tight, not disciplined?

Comfort, however, easily merges into license.

The lawless in spirit soon become the lawless in practice.

But in the present day men cast off gentleness, and are all for being bold; they spurn frugality, and retain only extravagance; they discard humility, and aim only at being first. Therefore they shall surely perish.

Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.

Men can't be trusted with pruning shears any more than they can be trusted with the grocery money in a delicatessen . . . They are like boys with new pocket knives who will not stop whittling.

"Because there has been no one to stop me" has been one of the principles of my life.

I think one of the things helping Donald Trump is, he hasn't known what he can't do. It's not in his vernacular. It's not in his vocabulary. It's not in his way of thinking what he can't do, what you're not supposed to do.

Where there is no want, there is usually much wantonness.