Quotes About Restriction

for when speech is restricted, all men suffer

You should make sure that the quotable lines of dialogue in your book never exceed a hundred and forty characters!" seemed

Yeah, well. They're more like 'Keep Out' signs, or 'Keep In,' I guess—as in keeping you guys in your place. The world goes on for a whole lot farther, trust me. This is just a trick to keep you from knowing it.

So you guys fought some Daimons, huh? Wish I could. Wulf goes nuts if I even pick up a butter knife. (Chris)

I did have a very restricted, regimented life. There was a kind of happiness there, a contentment, but it was a small happiness within very clear and delineated borders.

Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit

It is indeed the boundary of life, beyond which we are not to pass; which the law of nature has pitched for a limit not to be exceeded.

Nothing moves at the Hotel New Hampshire! We're screwed down here-for life!

Conformity is that jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. [Address before the United Nations, September 25 1961]

He's never coming out except nailed in a box or in an ash can," he said. "He is not stepping out.

The 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act went further, barring the immigration of all Chinese laborers.

Hay muchas formas de tener a una persona encerrada. Piénsalo. Pero la mejor no tiene nada que ver con fármacos o cerrojos: aquí casi nadie tiene adónde ir. Si no tienes eso, no te vas. Es así de simple.

As I said previously do not eat the scavengers of the sea such as oysters, crabs, clams, snails, shrimp, eels, or catfish.

Do not eat field peas, black-eyed peas, speckled peas, red peas or brown peas. Do not eat lima beans, or baby limas. Do not eat any bean but the small navy bean -- the little brown pink ones, and the white ones.

Miss Mitford talks of coming to town for a day, and of bringing Flush with her, as soon as the weather settles, and to-day looks so like it that I have mused this morning on the possibility of breaking my prison doors and getting into the next room. Only there is a forbidding north wind, they say.

The list of what the world would not allow was long for mourning over.

Where they were concerned, the ban, the check, the caution as to all spending and most of all the expenditure of feeling restricted them. Wariness had driven away poetry: from hesitating to feel came the moment you no longer could.

What she wanted was a kind of greatness that women were not allowed ...

My whole childhood was a lockdown. I never saw anyone or went anywhere.

Sedition Act," a rider to the Espionage Act. The Sedition Act, which Wilson signed on May 16, 1918, made it illegal to speak, print, write, or publish any "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language" about the government, the Constitution, the military, or the flag—certainly the single most restrictive gag on free speech and freedom of the press in U.S. history.

Some states banned the teaching of German in private and public schools alike.

Spartan citizens were not allowed to use money, practice a trade, make a statue, or write a poem.

Mijn stelling is dat alle vooruitgang voortkomt uit beperking.