Edmund Burke Quotes

Now, there's a desire for order, authority coming from a feeling that society has gone too far to the side of individualism and liberalism.

Where would we be without inhibitions? They're quite useful things when you look at some of the things humans do if they lose them.

Law gave me some structure... all these rules and internal disciplines.

The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.

Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.

All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.

How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

It's about living in a world with rules, or a world without rules.

I have to reign myself in a lot.

We say no to lots of things that would please us. I would like to punch people every now and then, but I don't. I would like to have something for free rather than pay for it. I would like to skip to the front of the line... I don't mean to brush aside the taste of meat, which is a powerful attraction. But its power is not without limit.

Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.

I hate exercising self-control.

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

Patience means restraining one's inclinations.

I need to rein myself in sometimes.

There is a time and a place for things. Sometimes one needs to put a filter on oneself. That can be a good thing.

There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues.

Temptation to behave is terrible.

Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

A person in my position has to restrain himself.

Order is power.

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.