Famous quotes containing the words restraint and/or system:
“The Persians are called the French of the East; we will call the Arabs Oriental Italians. A gifted noble people; a people of wild strong feelings, and of iron restraint over these: the characteristic of noblemindedness, of genius.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)
“A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor.”
—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)