Quotes About Barriers

Why were there so many barriers between us, always? Barriers of clothing, of etiquette, of time and age and reason.

There are no people anywhere who don't have some mental illness. It all depends on where you set the bar and how hard you look.

There are no people anywhere who don't have some mental illness. It all depends on where you set the bar and how hard you look. What is a myth is that we are mostly mentally well most of the time.

In the century of jazz we are likely to overlook the emergence of the waltz as a hot and explosive human expression that broke through the formal feudal barriers of courtly and choral dance styles.

You're blocking.

while language facilitates communication within the group, it also crystallises cultural differences, and actually heightens the barriers between groups.

Ahora una palabra para los profesores de filosofía. Siempre he admirado la sagacidad, el refinado y certero tino con que reconocieron a mi filosofía, desde el preciso instante de su aparición, como algo enteramente heterogéneo e incluso peligroso para su propio afán o, para decirlo popularmente, como algo que no encaja entre sus baratijas.

There is a notion gaining credence that the free market breaks down national barriers, and that corporate globalization's ultimate destination is a hippie paradise where the heart is the only passport and we all live together happily inside a John Lennon song (Imagine there's no country...). This is a canard.

Too often, we pour the energy needed for recognizing and exploring difference into pretending those differences are insurmountable barriers, or that they do not exist at all.

Too often, we pour the energy needed for recognizing and exploring difference into pretending those differences are insurmountable barriers, or that they do not exist at all. This results in a voluntary isolation, or false and treacherous connections. Either way, we do not develop tools for using human difference as a springboard for creative change within our lives. We speak not of human difference, but of human deviance.

Is it advisable to spread out all the conveniences of culture before people to whom a few steps up a stair to a library is a sufficient deterrent from reading?

As all these barriers to single living and personal autonomy gradually eroded, society's ability to pressure people into marrying, or keep them in a marriage against their wishes, was drastically curtailed. People no longer needed to marry in order to construct successful lives or long-lasting sexual relationships. With that, thousands of years of tradition came to an end.

It didn't work. He still had wool in his teeth. I couldn't make love to him. He had bone fragments and wool in his incisors, you know?" "Yeah, sheep remnants would be a major mood killer," Trinity agreed

Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.

I'm not good at love. I'm like a barbed creature. I push everyone I love away.

If two people can love each other without even speaking the same language, age and numbers are even easier to overcome.

As we grow in our consciousness.. there will be more compassion and more love. And then... the barriers between people.. between religions.. and between nations will begin to fall.

God put thorns around the Love's door to stop anyone who's not a Lover from entering.

I talked about the barriers created by monopolies. I said that it was the role of government to break up these monopolies and that we couldn't do it alone.

With the help of the Gospel, which he began to listen to carefully, Francis began to break down the barriers to friendship inherent in his old worldview. Every person, he began to see, was at the most basic root the same.

The Patriot Act removed major legal barriers that prevented the law enforcement, intelligence, and national defense communities from talking and coordinating their work to protect the American people and our national security.

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

she'll cry, and if she does, I probably will, and then she'll have found a way in, and I will not let her pierce my walls in a Trojan horse of sympathy.