Quotes About Barriers

I feel like breaking barriers is necessary because man created barriers, which keep us separated as human beings.

Part of the concept behind the magazine was breaking barriers. And it wasn't just a sexual thing. It was racial and doing the things that were right. And in the process, that set 'Playboy' apart.

The way we make history exciting to learn about is by breaking down the barriers that are already set up between these people.

Women are coming into their own and breaking down so many boundaries.

We really broke down some doors for women and for musicians in general. It was just go out and form a band and don't care what anyone thinks.

I want barriers to be broken down for women.

The most direct path to success is a good job, but the road to employment for those with criminal records is often riddled with barriers. Removing those barriers would allow those with records to leave the past behind, support their families, make a positive future - and improve our economy.

One day, when the world market is more or less fully developed and can no longer be suddenly enlarged, and if labour productivity continues to advance, then sooner or later the periodic clashes between productive forces and market barriers will begin, and because of their recurrence, these will naturally become increasingly rough and stormy.

It's so wonderful that women continue to break down barriers and change societal expectations, but women still suffer discrimination for their gender, class, and race.

The natural barriers between England and Scotland were not sufficient to prevent the extension of the Saxon settlements and kingdoms across the border.

Secure, safe borders with physical barriers, proper technology, manpower, and a sufficient number of judges is attainable and important to the security of our nation. We must also treat these children at the border with compassion and decency.

Perhaps the fact that it has taken so long for someone like myself to come through indicates that some of the problems that people are suggesting aren't what they might seem.

Stand a little less between me and the sun.

It seems to him there are a thousand bars, and behind the bars, no world.

Our existence as embodied beings is purely momentary; what are a hundred years in eternity? But if we shatter the chains of egotism, and melt into the ocean of humanity, we share its dignity. To feel that we are something is to set up a barrier between God and ourselves; to cease feeling that we are something is to become one with God."—Gandhi

Wealth is a relational barrier. It keeps us from having open relationships.

She wanted to get at the hate of them all, to pry at it and work at it until she found a little chink, and then pull out a pebble or a stone or a brick and then a part of the wall, and, once started, the whole edifice might roar down and be done away with.

There is a field of talking blood that I have not been able to reach, not even with knives, not yet.

The Holy Spirit showed me that when I put up walls to keep others out I also wall myself into solitary place of confinement.

Mainly what I learned from Buddy... was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn't have any barriers to it.

Anything inside that immobilizes me, gets in my way, keeps me from my goals, is all mine.

Beliefs are walls. Questions are doors.

This idealization of motherhood is essentially a means of keeping women from developing a sexual consciousness and from breaking through the barriers of sexual repression, of keeping alive their sexual anxieties and guilt feelings. The very existence of woman as a sexual being would threaten authoritarian ideology; her recognition and social affirmation would mean its collapse.

Working on ourselves is very important, but it's also important that we don't get so caught up in analyzing ourselves that we become the one thing standing in our own way.