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Quotes About Restrictions

If we let everyone decide for themselves how they were best fit to benefit humanity, with no restrictions at all, how could they possibly end up with a distribution of labor more inefficient than the one we already have?
~ David Graeber
Complaint is often the result of an insufficient ability to live within the obvious restrictions of this god damned cage.
~ Charles Bukowski
The function of the true state is to impose the minimum restrictions and safeguard the maximum liberties of the people, and it never regards the person as a thing.
~ Immanuel Kant
As restrictions and prohibitions are multiplied the people grow poorer and poorer. When they are subjected to overmuch government, the land is thrown into confusion.
~ Laozi
Government is, at every level, a means to gather in the labor and wealth of the people, and then instruct the people about new restrictions or monitoring of their lives.
~ Jeff Baxter
The more laws and restrictions there are, The poorer people become....The more rules and regulations, The more thieves and robbers.
~ Lao Tzu
There is no better example of the overreach of government than in environmental law.
~ Chris Stewart
The more laws that governments pass, the less individual freedom there is. Any student of history will tell you that. Totalitarian countries ban pretty much everything.
~ Bill O'Reilly
The City Surveyor had never before heard of disabled people wanting to cross the city as far as Marks & Spencer to buy their own underwear, so he failed to see the need for such an expedition – as if disabled people and their families had no right to venture that far. Injustice spurred us into action. Why should Stephen have to suffer restraints on his lifestyle other than those inflicted by an unkind Nature?
~ Jane Hawking
Cine nu mediteaz? temeinic la problema interdic?iilor ?i a obliga?iilor, atunci când acestea sunt mai pu?ine, nu va face fa??, se va sim?i pierdut, când vor fi multe.
~ Janusz Korczak
Have you heard about those companies whose benefits include game-console rooms, cereal snack bars, top-chef lunches and dinners, nap rooms, laundry service, and free beer on Fridays? It seems so generous, but there's also a catch: You can't leave the office.
~ Jason Fried
She paused before him with a smile which seemed at once designed to admit him to her familiarity, and to remind him of the restrictions it imposed.
~ Edith Wharton
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
~ Albert Einstein
Estos últimos eran el tipo del hombre parásito en política, que vive siempre al arrimo de la autoridad y no profesa más credo político que su conveniencia particular y una ciega adhesión a la gran palabra Orden, realizada en sus más restrictivas consecuencias.
~ Alberto Blest Gana
Parisians were starting to chafe against rationing and other restrictions despite their occupiers going to extraordinary lengths to foster good relations. German soldiers were not allowed to smoke or loosen their ties in public, buy cocaine in bars, go swimming in the Seine, sing or dance in the street
~ Alex Kershaw
In Haiti, it - people seemed - in my experience in Haiti, people are so open to photographs and journalism. And there doesn't seem to be the same sort of restrictions or wariness about the press that you would experience in Washington, for instance, on many levels.
~ Carol Guzy
Coming from a conservative family from Mangalore, I had hardly watched any movies or television during my student days.
~ Anushka Shetty
The bottom line is that we cannot sit idle as unparalleled rules and regulations significantly restrict our rights and ability to care for our families.
~ Alan Wilson
We see an entire planet which has many limitations.
~ Ralph Merkle
Outside the U.S., most data plans have a data limit.
~ Sebastian Thrun
Laws and regulations are supposed to restrict the kind of surveillance governments do. In fact, the U.S. government is quite restricted in what kind of surveillance they can do on U.S. citizens. The problem is that 96 percent of the planet is not U.S. citizens.
~ Mikko Hypponen
Pakistan has accepted some security training from the CIA, but U.S. export restrictions and Pakistani suspicions have prevented the two countries from sharing the most sophisticated technology for safeguarding nuclear components.
~ Barton Gellman
I lived with a 60-year-old chaperone, and drinking, swearing and smoking were absolutely forbidden - even in the house.
~ Shanna Moakler
You can't just slander someone, defame them, lie about them. You can't incite people to crime. There's all sorts of reasonable restrictions on free speech that are already codified in the British common-law system.
~ Jordan Peterson