Quotes About Restriction

To use infinite agency to close a gap is to rob it of its infinite character.

essentially limited. In the long term, if you deny

A prison does not only lock its inmates inside, it keeps all others out. Her strongest prison is of her own construction.

Money does talk, but it has a limited vocabulary.

I have a fork and a spoon, but never a knife… as if I'm lacking manual skills or teeth. I have both, however. That's why I'm not allowed a knife.

There were swings in one of the parks, but because of our skirts, which might be blown up by the wind and then looked into, we were not to think of taking such a liberty as a swing. Only boys could taste that freedom; only they could swoop and soar; only they could be airborne. I have still never been on a swing. It remains one of my wishes.

Our curiosity is supposed to have limits, though these have never been defined exactly.

Those walls and bars are there for a reason,' said Crake. ' Not to keep us out, but to keep them in. Mankind needs barriers in both cases

It was true she had never specifically forbidden us to do anything - that would be too crude a violation of her law of nuance - but this only makes me feel I am actually forbidden to do everything.

In the desert there is no sign that says, 'Thou shalt not eat stones.

Romania, for instance, had anticipated Gilead in the eighties by banning all forms of birth control, imposing compulsory pregnancy tests on the female population, and linking promotion and wage increases to fertility.

There were swings in one of the parks, but because of our skirts, which might be blow up by the wind and then looked into, we were not to think of taking such a liberty as a swing. Only boys could taste that freedom; only they could swoop and soar; only they could be airborne.

Why should it be that just when technology is most encouraging of creativity, the law should be most restrictive?

Now is not the time to open the border to receive Canadian beef down to the United States.

One time my mom tried to ground me, but that lasted 15 minutes.

We seem to spend a lot of our time in very small spaces spouting a lot of dialogue very quickly.

I, on the other hand, believe that books, maps, scissors, and Scotch tape dispensers are all unreliable vagrants, likely to take off for parts unknown unless strictly confined to quarters.

Of course, we can't ever look out the window or go outside. And we have to be quiet so the people downstairs can't hear us.

I don't dare do anything anymore, 'cause I'm afraid it's not allowed.

Ya no me atrevo a hacer nada, porque tengo miedo de que esté prohibido".

don't dare do anything anymore, 'cause I'm afraid it's not allowed.

I don't dare do anything anymore, cause Tm afraid it's not allowed.

Ab Mai 1940 ging es bergab mit den guten Zeiten:...,und dann das Elend fur uns Juden begann. Judengesetz folgte auf Judengesetz, und unsere Freiheit wurde sehr beschrankt. Judden mussen einen Judenstern tragen; Juden mussen ihre Fahrrader abgeben;...Jacque sagt immer zu mir: ,,Ich traue mich nichts mehr zu machen, ich habe Angst, dass es nicht erlaubt ist.

And you were ready to silence a Harper, and that is a greater wrong, for when speech is restricted, all men suffer, not just I.