Quotes About Restriction

The first tugs towards prohibition were about power, and purity of belief. If you are going to have one God and one Church, you need to stop experiences that make people feel that they can approach God on their own.

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye.

I should get a few ribs taken out, because I'll be in a corset for the rest of my life.

Books, Manuals, Directives, Regulations. The geometries that circumscribe your working life draw norrower and norrower until nothing fits inside them anymore.

For one cause or another, it has become necessary to impose restrictions upon the use of many commodities, including not a few of the necessities of life.

Married life is an existence with bars around it.

Can you imagine founding a cuisine on blueberries? Everyone would be so sick of them within a week, they'd starve to death. The blueberry has no versatility. The country with a cuisine based on the blueberry would be a country of lunatics, turned mad by the unwavering sameness of their daily meals.

Oh, fence me out if you like! Fence me out as much as you like! But never in. Oh Harcourt, never in.

I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat people.

It was as if she had once been almost smothered and then allowed to live only if she limited her vocabulary and breathed hardly at all.

The Prisoner All right, Go ahead! What's in a name? I guess I'll be locked into As much as I'm locked out of!

A crowded society is a restrictive society; an overcrowded society becomes an authoritarian, repressive and murderous society.

Well, she got her daddy's carAnd she cruised through the hamburger stand nowSeems she forgot all about the libraryLike she told her old man nowAnd with the radio blasting goes cruisingJust as fast as she can nowAnd she'll have fun, fun, funTill her daddy takes the T-Bird away

English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation.

He would be relegated to a post best left fastened and buried.

He once said to me that it was like being in one of those Russian prisons where they lock you up without telling you the length of your sentence.

People know excessive consumption of anything is bad for health. By imposing a ban on something, we are, in a way, provoking them to do it.

If the Internet, ubiquitous as it now is, proves too dangerous in the hands of the psychologically fragile, perhaps access to it ought to be restricted. We ban drunks from driving because they're a danger to others. Isn't it time we did the same to trolls?

On behalf of the federal government, I wish now publicly to appeal to the provinces to lend their co-operation in furthering our country's war effort by effecting at as early a date as may be possible this much needed restriction.

My biggest thing is banana pudding, but it's the devil! So no one is allowed to bring it into my house. Because I can't control myself. So why put it in my domain?

No one should be allowed to purchase more than two firearms a month.

I'm not getting penalised for pushing, I'm penalised for going over the limit of what's legal and what's within the rules.

As long as I am forbidden to see the MSPAP, my children will be forbidden to take the MSPAP.