Quotes About Restriction

We are not omniscient or all-powerful. Even enhanced by technology, our physical and mental powers are limited.

Everything that isn't permitted by The Law is forbidden.

The laws say that men may not write unless the Council of Vocations bid them so. May we be forgiven!

Manufacturers these days have peculiar problems: a package may recommend the virtues of its product by voice only, for it is not allowed to grab the customer by the sleeve or collar.

There are many methods of trance induction, but all seem to function on one or more of four related principles: relaxation, sensory restriction, rhythm, and boredom.

A critical fact in the world of 1801 was that nothing moved faster than the speed of a horse. No human being, no manufactured item, no bushel of wheat, no side of beef (or any beef on the hoof, for that matter), no letter, no information, no idea, order, or instruction of any kind moved faster.

It wasn't until 1911 that California joined forty-five other states in restricting recreational cocaine

the powers that be have a way of outlawing many beautiful things made by ordinary people. I don't know why that should be, I only know it is.

Conformity is a cage that confines our ability to think. It is a cage that hinders growth and deters individualism

Everything has a limit.

The cheese board is my big treat at Christmas that I have to deny myself during the rest of year.

You cut yourself off from all sorts of experience because you tell yourself you re not 'that sort of person

You see the fence as something keeping the zoms out. I don't. I see it as the thing that pens us in. We're trapped here. Trapped isn't "alive." Trapped isn't "safe." And it isn't "free.

You see the fence as something keeping the zoms out. I don't. I see it as the thing that pens us in. We're trapped here. Trapped isn't 'alive.' Trapped isn't 'safe.' And it isn't 'free.

For 100 years, governments of every colour were committed to enlarging the language of citizenship. Now Mrs. Thatcher's government is committed to closing it.

Some things a man simply cannot do.

Indulgence makes a child fat. Restriction makes a child fat and unhappy.

This is why I can't be with you

Red tape has killed more people than bullets...

It's a curse to have a mind if it is illegal to use it. It's a curse to have intelligence if you are forced to cloak it in a lifetime of wilful stupidity.

and in fact lacked the authority to do so,

which restricts the flow of credit, which makes the downturn deeper and more protracted.

but made clear it would not grant further extensions.

Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it's hurtful.