Quotes About Limits

When you put individuals first, before society, then any rule or social practice that limits personal freedom can be questioned. If it doesn't protect somebody from harm, then it can't be morally justified. It's just a social convention.

The word "impossible" used to mean something. It was a line that couldn't be crossed. It was the outer edge of the safe zone. I can't find that line anymore

Your language indicates??and limits??what you think.

As Talmon writes, 'When a regime is by definition regarded as realizing rights and freedoms, the citizen becomes deprived of any right to complain that he is being deprived of his rights and liberties.'21 Whereas English liberty set limits to the state, French liberty was to be imposed by the state. If need be, said Rousseau, we must force people to be free.

For each of us there is a Jordan we will not cross. Once

I see. Yes, you kill, you lie, you rob, you hit old men and steal their boats. I only thanks the gods you draw the line at swearing — it would have been just too dreadful otherwise.

The fact that no limits exist to the destructiveness of this weapon makes its very existence and the knowledge of its construction a danger to humanity as a whole. It is necessarily an evil thing considered in any light.

El apego es amor limitado, pero el verdadero amor no tiene límites

Cuando alguien ejerce un poder sin límites, no vacila en emplear toda la fuerza del Estado

La angustia que transmite todo atisbo de demencia le va dejando perdido en una deriva extraña por el peligroso barrio infantil que hay en los límites de su mente, allí donde sabe que en cualquier momento puede perderse para siempre.

For historians, hindsight can be a treacherous ally. Enabling us to trace the hidden patterns of past events, it beguiles us with the mirage of inevitability, the assumption that different outcomes lay beyond the limits of the possible.

This neighborhood is a lifeboat in a storm we can't stop. Only so many people can be in our boat, no matter how many swimmers you see bobbing about in the ocean. If you try to pull in too many, you sink. You save nobody, including those who were in the boat. Our priority has to be those who are in the boat, because we can't save all of those who need to be in the boat. Our only exception has been when those on the outside can make our lifeboat stronger and more self-sustaining.

We can't save everyone...not all the time.

Contra mi pensamiento, que trato de mantener dentro de los límites de la racionalidad, supe que nos habíamos vuelto a ver porque así estaba escrito desde los tiempos de la nada. Voluntades que se atraen siguiendo un papel predestinado.

You can get in way more trouble with a good idea than a bad idea, because you forget that the good idea has limits.

Great poets confront the limits of actual poems, tactically defeat or at least suspend that actuality, sometimes quit writing altogether, becoming celebrated for their silence; truly horrible poets unwittingly provide a glimmer of virtual possibility via the extremity of their failure; avant-garde poets hate poems for remaining poems instead of becoming bombs; and nostalgists hate poems for failing to do what they wrongly, vaguely claim poetry once did.

My limits know me well enough to stay out of my way.

Su un'isola non si dimentica mai il mare, il che significa che non si dimenticano mai i propri limiti. Eppure, entro questi limiti, ogni uomo è re.

We also proposed limits on penalties imposed on borrowers who prepaid their mortgages.

I'm a firm believer in thinking inside the box. The first thing I do when approaching a new project is to give myself rigid guidelines and precise limits. That's how I begin to think. If I were told that I could create anything in any medium, using any amount of space and any amount of time, I'd stand in a field and scream.

Disintegrationist philosophy of government boils down to a government without limits, administered by bureaucrats without accountability.

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.

nothing more bondage than too much liberty.

On the whole, infinity is a fairly palpable aspect of this business of publishing, if only because it extends a dead author's existence beyond the limits he envisioned, or provides a living author with a future he cannot measure. In other words, this business deals with the future which we all prefer to regard as unending.