Quotes About Restriction

The restriction of knowledge to an elite group destroys the spirit of the society and leads to its intellectual impoverishment.

Ordinary society is like a paperweight on you: it won't allow you to fly.

It's very tough to get yourself around the idea that there could be a mechanism being used or abused to restrict and alter the society in which we live.

Society has taught us to suppress certain things and not do certain things.

Accidents have already become an important factor restricting the development of a harmonious economy and society, and have attracted the strong attention of the Chinese government and society

The restriction of knowledge to an elite group destroys the spirit of society and leads to its intellectual impoverishment.

To the puritan all things are impure

Family, monogamy, romance. Everywhere exclusiveness, a narrow channelling of impulse and energy.

The greatest care is taken to prevent you from loving anyone too much.

A human being in a highly technicized productive unit is simply not allowed to be spontaneous. It just interferes with the plan laid down in advance by the engineers and technicians who decide how he should word, and in this way he, the human being, is profoundly diminished, because he is not permitted to be spontaneous.

For unrestricted use the West has permitted only alcohol and tobacco. All the other chemical Doors in the Wall are labeled Dope, and their unauthorized takers are Fiends. We now spend a good deal more on drink and smoke than we spend on education. This, of course, is not surprising. The urge to escape from selfhood and the environment is in almost everyone almost all the time.

A human being in a highly technicized productive unit is simply not allowed to be spontaneous. It just interferes with the plan laid down in advance by the engineers and technicians who decide how he should work, and in this way he, the human being, is profoundly diminished, because he is not permitted to be spontaneous.

The word of sin is Restriction. O man! refuse not thy wife, if she will! O lover, if thou wilt, depart! There is no bond that can unite the divided but love: all else is a curse. Accursed! Accursed be it to the aeons! Hell.

We [of Thelema] are whole-hearted extroverts; the penalty of restricting one self is anything from neurosis to down right lunacy; in particular, melancholia.

Dar se putea si ca toata acea grija de a pune granite si restrictii sa fi ascuns in el o dorinta de a ajunge dincolo de orice regula, chiar si o singura data si cu orice pret – sa ajunga in fond la capatul unui anumit drum.

She decided to change the subject. Hooks were useful, but there was a limit to what one could say about them.

Tell him your parents have strictly forbidden you to play for anything but nuts.

Most Mistress no more free do what they want than I is or Pork is or ary colored.

No more Oreo's!

A quantity growing exponentially toward a constraint or limit reaches that limit in a surprisingly short time.

At any given time, the input that is most important to a system is the one that is most limiting.

So I hired consultants to block all communication off the island, from landlines, cells, or computers. Cells can't get voice, text, e-mail, or Internet.

And Internet is incoming only," continued Knight. "Brain Trust scientists, and others on this island, can enter terms into a Google search bar, but that's the only way they can interact with the outside world. The results of their searches can be opened and downloaded, but it's one-way traffic only." He smiled. "None of this was easy to do, but it is quite foolproof.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.