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Quotes About Restrictions

I only travel with one suitcase - Mulberry does an incredible one. I always check it; the TSA restrictions are so tricky.
~ Poppy Delevingne
There are a lot of self-imposed restrictions by people who somehow believe they have to fall in with a certain military cant. There was always a sense that we had to put things into words that would touch our troops' hearts, not just their heads.
~ Jim Mattis
You had to wear a hat to go to church. We weren't allowed to straighten our hair. We couldn't wear jewellery, nail polish, open backed shoes, skirts above the knee... trousers were forbidden because male apparel on a female was not godly.
~ Grace Jones
Paternalistic regulations often prohibit women from holding jobs in certain industries: In the Russian Federation, women cannot drive trucks in the agriculture sector; in Belarus, they cannot be carpenters; in Kazakhstan, they cannot be welders.
~ Sri Mulyani Indrawati
I have studied the details, listened to Ohioans on all sides of this issue, and consulted with nuclear experts. This deal is not about trusting the Iranian regime, but instead working with our allies on comprehensive, verifiable restrictions to block Iran's pathways to a nuclear bomb without precipitating another war in the Middle East.
~ Sherrod Brown
It bothers me when the Hollywood elite are all so against people having guns and want rigorous gun restrictions.
~ Alana Stewart
a lady could do, so I was told, just about nothing that she might want to do except attend all parties.
~ Evalyn Walsh McLean
There are landscapes there, but they are like nothing seen on Earth; gone are the restrictions of natural order; these are the kingdoms of imagination, where nothing is impossible or too bizarre.
~ Storm Constantine
In the modern world, tariffs and similar restrictions on trade have been one source of friction among nations. But a far more troublesome source has been the far-reaching intervention of the state into the economy in such collectivist states as Hitler's Germany, Mussolini's Italy, and Franco's Spain, and especially the communist countries, from Russia and its satellites to China.
~ Milton Friedman
They next faced the problem that confronted all young people in the city who wanted to continue in one another's company past a certain hour. During the day there were parks, and campuses, and restaurants, cafés. But at night, after dinner, unless one had access to a home where such things were safe and permitted, or had a car, there were few places to be alone.
~ Mohsin Hamid
Until June 26, 1918, all Texans could vote except "idiots, imbeciles, aliens, the insane and women.
~ Molly Ivins
in the mountains the cherry trees were in full bloom, and the farther he went, the lovelier the veils of mist became, until for him, whose rank so restricted travel that all this was new, the landscape became a source of wonder.
~ Murasaki Shikibu
So what were these "restrictions" really for? Why were they proliferating and shape shifting day by day and week by week? Gradually, it became clear. The true reason had nothing to do with medicine. The true reason is that, in the elites' war against Western humanism, "restrictions" had become the weapon of choice.
~ Naomi Wolf
No in-person worship anywhere in New York State. Epidemiologists and public health officials were now somehow on many institutions' Boards.
~ Naomi Wolf
Everyone agrees that there are individuals who are seriously mentally ill and should not have guns.
~ Tom Tancredo
It is only with government help—in the form of subsidies, restrictions on potential rivals, and the like—that business can "exploit" the public in any meaningful sense.
~ Thomas E. Woods
As Hayek, Milton Friedman, and so many others pointed out, a state with power, means, and inclination to intervene so heavily in economic affairs is unlikely to stop there. In the process of all this, religion and civil society are crowded out, appreciation for their role languishes, and the groundwork is laid for more restrictions on them in the future.
~ Thomas E. Woods Jr.
It is only with government help—in the form of subsidies, restrictions on potential rivals, and the like—that business can "exploit" the public in any meaningful sense. That
~ Thomas E. Woods Jr.
Gun control zealots compare the United States and England to show that murder rates are lower where restrictions on ownership of firearms are more severe. But you could just as easily compare Switzerland and Germany, the Swiss having lower murder rates than the Germans, even though gun ownership is three times higher in Switzerland. Other countries with high rates of gun ownership and low murder rates include Israel, New Zealand, and Finland.
~ Thomas Sowell
China and India have been striking examples of poor countries whose abandonment of severe international trade and investment restrictions led to dramatic increases in their economic growth rates, which in turn led to tens of millions of their citizens rising out of poverty.
~ Thomas Sowell
Put differently, how much of male-female differences in income has been due to employer discrimination and how much to other differences arising from social restrictions or other factors is a question rather than a foregone conclusion. Many social restrictions, especially in the past, have been based on attempts to forestall problems growing out of the attraction of the sexes for one another.
~ Thomas Sowell
Britain's earlier development of strong and widespread labor unions, which were able to restrict the application of new technology, both directly and by appropriating a sufficient share of technology's economic benefits to reduce the incentives for further technological investment.
~ Thomas Sowell
Everyone related to me in my circle was from church: church friends, church school, church activities. All my friends weren't allowed to watch MTV or go to PG-13 movies or listen to the radio, so I didn't really know anything different. That's how I was raised.
~ Katy Perry
Women have more fun because there's more things forbidden to them.
~ KEN ALSTAD