Quotes About Boundaries

Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge.

Whoever is my relative, I will not be nice to them.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't the fine line between sanity and madness gotten finer

Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the other side?

Control your generosity when dealing with a chronic borrower.

Abed, the walls pressed close and the ceiling hung heavy above him; abed, the room was his cell and Winterfell his prison. Yet outside his windows, the wide world still called. - Bran

Why must we draw these lines, these fine distinctions, these labels and barriers that set us apart? Ace and nat and joker, capitalist and communist, Catholic and Protestant, Arab and Jew, Indian and Latino, and on and on everywhere, and of course true humanity is to be found only on our side of the line and we feel free to oppress and rape and kill the "other," whoever he might be. (From the Journal of Xavier Desmond)

It was easy to forget that sometimes, when they were laughing together, or kissing. But then one of them would say something, or do something, and he would suddenly be reminded of the wall between their worlds.

Always the wall, keeping him apart, this man who was a first-name friend to everyone and an intimate to none. And on it, it was almost as if there were a sign that read, THIS FAR YOU GO, and no further.

If you desire to help thy friend, do so in a way that will not bring thy friend's burdens upon thyself.

The lips that touch liquor must never touch mine!

There ought to be limits to freedom.

Civilization depends on, and civility often requires, the willingness to say, "What you are doing is none of my business" and "What I am doing is none of your business.

There is always some limit which the individual accepts. He identifies this limit with himself. Horror seizes him at the thought that this limit may cease to be. But we are wrong to take this limit and the individual's acceptance of it seriously. The limit is only there to be overreached. Fear and horror are not the real and final reaction; on the contrary, they are a temptation to overstep the bounds.

If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable.

There's something inherently wrong in a relationship where the woman acts like a wife and the man acts like a boyfriend.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

Love your neighbor as yourself, but don't take down the fence.

The English never draw a line without blurring it.

There is but an inch of difference between the cushioned chamber and the padded cell.

The true exercise of freedom is-can-nily and wisely and with grace-to move inside what space confines-and not seek to know what lies beyond and cannot be touched or tasted.

It does not matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you do not do it in the street and frighten the horses.

Almost anything carried to its logical extreme becomes depressing, if not carcinogenic.

It doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.