Quotes About Restriction

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.

My parents always used to complain about my eating habits. I was different. I was wrong. Everything had to be plain or boiled. I was 14 before I ate pasta with tomato sauce. My dad would take me to the best restaurants, and all I would eat was rice with olive oil.

The only place we were really told to tone it down - where other people would use the word censorship, but I wouldn't - was when we did MTV right after the Beavis and Butt-head thing.

I do like going to the movies, but I like eating tons of sweets and ice cream, so I can't go to the movies anymore.

Yeah, the first contract I signed, that was the first time I realized, Oh man, never mind, I don't want to do this anymore, but it was too late. I realized it was a bad thing because I wanted to try out for 'American Idol' and all these different things couldn't do that because I was in this contract.

Everything in Formula 1 has been sterilised now, the whole thing is controlled too much.

When I first started, you couldn't mention divorce or death. You couldn't show smelly socks. You couldn't show a snake. They took a skunk out of my strip one time.

To be clear, all white nationalists/anti-Semites are banned from Proud Boys even if they never bring up said topics.

A lot of people think a high armhole is restrictive, but it gives you total movement because it's cut right up to your arm.

After two days, Gilsa allowed her to rise awhile and follow her around the yard, though she was not to lift so much as a chicken's egg. When Ani shadowed Gilsa into the coop anyway, Gilsa slapped her hands away from the task and then asked her what the chickens were saying. "'People are here to take the eggs' and so on. Chickens aren't the best conversationalists." "I'm glad," said Gilsa. "Makes me feel better about eating them.

Jealousy over some big, dumb bear flew out the window as he stared at Ronnie. "You…you were banned from Norway? The country?

For a long time, censors have been cutting my works. This makes me so sad, because many times they will tell me, 'Television won't like, so we have to cut, cut, cut!'

Credit 47 Barbed-wire fences and guards prevented anyone from leaving the ghetto.

I think perhaps a syllable maximum should be set for some people and, I'm sorry, but rather a low one.

Henry deeply felt the misfortune of being debarred from a liberal education.

The number of countries that censor the internet has grown steadily, and now stands at more than forty.

The laws say that men may not write unless the Council of Vocations bid them so.

He had to choke the knowledge. He had to kill the vision. He had to obey and draw the lines as instructed.

She could not attend her university, which was closed; she could not earn money, because public work for women, save a few specialized jobs, was forbidden; she couldn't even go on a walk through the neighborhood and watch the finches dart from tree to tree.

Adesso che non potevo più pensare a me come a un'insegnante, una scrittrice, che non potevo più indossare quello che volevo, né camminare per strada al mio passo, gridare se mi andava di farlo o dare una pacca sulla spalla a un collega maschio, adesso che tutto ciò era diventato illegale, mi sentivo evanescente, artificiale, un personaggio immaginario scaturito dalla matita di un disegnatore che una gomma qualsiasi sarebbe bastata a cancellare

You know the rules, he said. Unaccompanied women cannot sit in this section.

accepting limiting beliefs is like wearing a straightjacket all of your life.

But if unrestricted freedom can impede the individual's pursuit of what he or she values most, then it may be that some restrictions make everyone better off. And if "constraint" sometimes affords a kind of liberation while "freedom" affords a kind of enslavement, then people would be wise to seek out some measure of appropriate constraint.