Quotes About Restriction

You wanted to look at life for yourself - but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish. You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.

My life is too tight, he wanted to say. My skin is too tight. The walls are too tight.

If you chose to serve in Congress or on a congressional staff, you should be barred for life from working for any company, organization, or association which lobbies the federal government.

Life is like a speed limit, our lives have limit.

My feet, " said Montag. "I can't move them. I feel so damn silly. My feet won't

Physics is imagination in a straight jacket.

The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.

aim, therefore, of patriots, was to set limits to the power which the ruler should be suffered to exercise over the community; and this limitation was what they meant by liberty.

It is absurd and anti-life to be part of a system that compels you to sit in confinement with people of exactly the same age and social class. That system effectively cuts you off from the immense diversity of life and the synergy of variety; indeed, it cuts you off from your own past and future, sealing you in a continuous present much the same way television does.

Trapped children, like trapped rats, need close management.

I always wanted to be a juvenile delinquent but my parents wouldn't let me.

That looks so delicious. My people would never let me have something like that. But maybe you will!

Space has failed us, and we must be unmeaningly brief.

It seems at first sight strange that any man of genius should have patiently submitted to rules which, from the point of view of art, were perfectly arbitrary.

Civilization is come. It has shut up a million of men within an area of four square leagues; it has stalled them in streets, houses, apartments, rooms, and chambers eight feet square; after a time it will make them shut up one upon another like the tubes of a telescope.

Girls brought up as you were, in a very strait-laced and puritan fashion, always pant for liberty and happiness, and the happiness they have never comes up to what they imagined.

Reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.

Now I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, "How in a free country such as this, can we ban video games and golf, yet continue to permit stamp collecting?"

Nothing forbids man to enjoy himself, save grim and gloomy superstition

They asked me to go on 'Hell's Kitchen' but I'm banned from reality TV by my wife. She's not up for that kind of tomfoolery.

It would be ideal if we could have an uncontrolled flow of information. But we realized you can't do that.

With corsets, it's interesting when you put them on, realizing that's what women actually wore. They're just so constricting.

We blocked them inside the city. Their rear is blocked.

I hate diets. Restriction makes me feel rebellious. I find that I look my best when I feel my best, whatever that takes. For me, above all else, it means being around the people I want to be with.