Self-restraint

Self-restraint, even by fair-sized countries, gets swamped by everyone else's self-indulgence.

Jedediah Purdy: Environmental Imagination: The Food Movement and Climate Change Jedediah Purdy 2012

Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks: 'Self-restraint is the essence of ...

David Finkle: Religion in the United States and England, as Influential English Rabbi Sacks Claims to See It 2009

“Self-restraint can be achieved through fasting,” he suggested.

Midnight Sister Souljah 2008

Self-restraint has been one of their notable characteristics during the two-year peace process.

Status-Quoists Set Barriers to Peace Process in Nepal 2008

Self-restraint is the only check on U.S. power right now.

The U.S. is the only super power in town -- and it's acting like it Nancy Jane Moore 2007

Self-restraint is rarely a reliable checking device; many prosecutors are gung-ho types, not given to reflection and introspection.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Charges Filed 32 Years After Alleged Rape Have Now Been Dropped: 2007

Self-restraint becomes more of a challenge when the owner of a million-dollar condo (that's my guess anyway, because it has three floors and a wide-angle view of the fabled rockbound coast) who is (according to a framed photograph on the wall) an acquaintance of the real Barbara Bush takes me into the master bathroom to explain the difficulties she's been having with the shower stall.

Nickel and Dimed Ehrenreich, Barbara 2001

Self-restraint is replaced by restraint by the state and that often takes remarkably coercive forms.

'Divorce Culture' Coontz, Stephanie 1998

Self-restraint gives way to violence and self-control is replaced by corruption.

Out of Control Zbigniew Brzezinski 1993

Self-restraint by federal and provincial governments, by consumers and producers, by conservationists, environmentalists and energy developers, will be needed if compromises which can command general acceptance are to be reached.

Energy and a Sense of Balance 1981