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«I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint.»
Author: Hesiod
| About:
Future,
Generations,
Hope,
Youth
| Keywords:
dependent, dependent on, discrete, elders, exceedingly, frivolous, Future of, impatient, impatient of, reckless, respectful, restraint
«Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.»
Author: Lewis H. Lapham
| Keywords:
athletic, burdens, degrees, follower, imposes, moral character, restraint, self-restraint, technique, traits
«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
«It is fatally easy for Western folk, who have discarded chastity as a value for themselves, to suppose that it can have no value for anyone else. At the same time as Californians try to re-invent ''celibacy,'' by which they seem to mean perverse restraint, the rest of us call societies which place a high value on chastity ''backward.''»
Author: Germaine Greer
| Keywords:
backward, Californian, Californians, celibacy, chastity, discarded, fatally, folk, no value, perverse, restraint, societies, Western
«I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
| Keywords:
match, military, military power, military strength, restraint
«I would not unduly praise the virtue of restraint. It is often merely temperamental. But it is not always a sign of coldness. It may be pride. There can be nothing more humiliating than to see the shaft of one's emotion miss the mark of either laughter or tears. Nothing more humiliating! And this for the reason that should the mark be missed, should the open display of emotion fail to move, then it must perish unavoidably in disgust or contempt.»
Author: Joseph Conrad
| Keywords:
coldness, disgust, display, humiliated, humiliating, missed, restraint, shaft, shafting, shafts, temperamental, The Mark of, unavoidably, unduly
«I am a firm believer in democratic representative government as the best form for those who have the tolerance and self-restraint that is required to make it workable»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
democratic government, representative, representative government, restraint, self-restraint, self government, workable
«It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.»
«I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far.»
«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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