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Quotes About Restrictions

Ever since the empirical mathematics of the pre-Hellenic world was developed, the attitude has, upon occasion, been maintained that mathematics is a branch either of empirical science of of transcendental philosophy. In either case mathematics is not free to develop as it will, but is bound by certain restrictions: by conceptions derived either a posteriori from natural science, or assumed to be imposed a priori by an absolutistic philosophy.
~ Carl B. Boyer
On cutting off beer sales after the eighth inning: "Anybody who can't get drunk at the ball game before the eighth inning doesn't belong here.
~ Gavin Edwards
Los hombres temen el poder femenino, por eso las leyes, las religiones y las costumbres han impuesto durante siglos toda suerte de restricciones al desarrollo intelectual, artístico y económico de las mujeres.
~ Isabel Allende
Because of restrictions on abortion access in their own state, many women in neighboring states are forced to travel hundreds of miles and cross state lines to seek an abortion. However, their rights should not have to depend on their zip code.
~ Mike Quigley
After the oil crisis of 1973, many European countries tightened restrictions on immigrants. By then, millions of Muslims had decided to settle in Europe, preferring the social segregation and racial discrimination they found in the West to political and economic turmoil at home.
~ Pankaj Mishra
While President Obama raised the hopes of Americans and Cubans alike with a forward-looking opening in diplomatic, commercial and people-to-people ties, President Trump is turning back the clock to a tragically failed Cold War mindset by reimposing restrictions on those activities.
~ Ben Rhodes
It's quite obvious that the 'Dark Souls' franchise is reaching a turning point, and I'm happy that I have a greater budget for the third game, as well as the creative freedom to make my own decisions. But if there were some restrictions about what I was creating, I definitely wouldn't want to work on it.
~ Hidetaka Miyazaki
Everything related to the NFL, we're banned from. Whether it be Media Day, whether it be even doing negotiations for TV shows, everybody's afraid of the NFL in their relation to us because they know they don't like us.
~ Dave Portnoy
If I can make an economic deal with Amazon that works for them and works for me, OK - I'll make it available. But I don't want to be part of restrictions that make life difficult for my guests.
~ Gerry Lopez
Government restrictions are attractive to people who want to impose their pet notions without having to count the costs.
~ Thomas Sowell
Qmail out of the box works fine, so people will want to use it regardless of licensing restrictions, even when the software does not ship with their system software.
~ Wietse Venema
There is no way the American public will sit still for the banning of or putting any significant restrictions on the kinds of guns they want.
~ James Q. Wilson
I had sort of given up on conventional journalism. I found it far too restrictive.
~ Molly Ivins
Android phones in China are more 'Android open source' rather than Android in the way we are all used to here. So a lot of phones don't have Google Play, etc.
~ Sundar Pichai
Effectively, there is no democracy without such an unconditional symmetry in the rights to express yourself, and the gravest threat is the slippery slope in the attempts to limit speech on grounds that some of it may hurt some people's feelings. Such restrictions do not necessarily come from the state itself, rather from the forceful establishment of an intellectual monoculture by an overactive thought police in the media and cultural life.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Some professions, such as dentists, consultants, or massage professionals, cannot be scaled: there is a cap on the number of patients or clients you can see in a given period of time.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
so users were severely constrained by time.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Mom removed all games that remotely suggest violence and death-but Cody's doing a good job of making harmless cartoon characters suffer in fresh and inventive ways.
~ Neal Shusterman
it's when you're on the row that you notice that everything is owned and that there are locks on everything.
~ Charles Bukowski
I tried to minimize exposure to technology before two. After that, I've taught the kids to use devices in moderation. It's important for them to learn how to control their behaviour themselves. Simply restricting access makes them want it more.
~ Anne Wojcicki
Oh, never trust a country That won't permit live poultry to ride on the bus.
~ Tom Robbins
they were increasingly perceived as restrictions upon the self-expression and freedom of the individual.
~ Tony Judt
Society has taught us to suppress certain things and not do certain things.
~ Kesha
Some have accepted the Faustian bargain of maximizing today's earnings per share while operating under restrictions that jeopardize their future competitiveness. But that doesn't mean they're happy about it.
~ Kishore Mahbubani