Quotes About Restraint

We tend to seek captivity because we are used to seeing freedom as something that has neither frontiers nor responsibilities.

Always late: thus I make you the prisoner of my freedom.

As I've said, freedom is really an illusion. Anytime we think we have a real choice, it just means we haven't seen the shotgun aimed at our navel.

Perhaps it was freedom itself that choked her.

For you who no longer possess it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.

Creator: A comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh.

The very freedom which the sinner supposedly exercises in his self-indulgence is only another proof that he is ruled by the tyrant.

I am chained to the earth to pay for the freedom of my eyes.

The higher your station, the less your liberty.

A well-governed appetite is a great part of liberty

External freedom has probably never existed, but neither have I ever known anyone who knew inner freedom.

To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half the house in order to water a single rose.

Actually, I am a coward. I say only what is safe to say, and I criticise only what is permissable to criticise.

I am not aspiring to be a senior bureaucrat. It would limit my freedom.

Freedom is when you are easy in the harness.

He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom

Tyranny of freedom is do what you like. There's a world gone crazy, cause it can't say no.

The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.

The only truth is that we cannot speak the truth . The only acceptable viewpoint is that we cannot express a viewpoint.

History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability, anarchy, and confusion. So there can be a moral counter-revolution.

The only freedom left is the freedom to starve.

Secret thoughts are only half free: they fly undisturbed in the skies of the inner freedom, but they can never leave them.

What we now have is the freedom which attends decadence, or the decadence which attends freedom.