Quotes About Restriction

Each forbidden cigarette, each safety belt fastened, each crash helmet worn, each blasphemy law enacted, is a landmark on the road to Dystopia.

I think when you're learning an instrument, you are restricted because much of it is the noise of individual theory and your ability to play the instrument.

We need a constitutional amendment to make the federal government obey the Constitution.

Japan was a closed book. Western ignorance of Japan was not the fault of the westerners but the design of the Japanese. For two hundred years, Japan had been shut tight. By national law, a Japanese could not leave Japan and no outsider was allowed in. Death sentences were meted out to any who gave foreigners information about the land of the gods. Almost no maps and no books existed in the English-speaking world describing the closed land.

The ban on "usury" was a signal example of the Church's resistance to commercial innovation. Banking and credit were crucial to the development of larger-scale commercial enterprises. By restricting the availability of credit, the Church retarded growth.

when you were barely five years old you begged me to let you read that Stephen King novel and I made you stick to Judy Blume.

I want steak," he said, stopping to look at her. "And shrimp. And lobster. And pancakes. And a candy bar". "I'm sorry, you'll have to settle for a couple of sandwiches". Thomas sighed."Figures".

She quoted a dead playwright and called me a bullet with nothing but a future. She understood my lack of self-pity. She knew why I despised everything that might restrict my forward momentum. She knew that bullets have no conscience. They speed past things and miss their marks as often as they hit them.

Propertied persons typically have large estates and freedom of movement through the society. At the same time, the property of the rich has the effect of crowding and confining the less propertied. The very poor are typically restricted to narrow geographical limits and are regarded as aliens outside them.

Power will always be restricted to a relatively small number of selected persons. Anyone can be strong. Strength is paradoxical. I am not strong because I can force others to do what I wish as a result of my play with them, but because I can allow them to do what they wish in the course of my play with them.

Would their relocation be a lifelong prison sentence?

He cannot speak clearly if his words must be strained through a Congressional gag.

Trapped like a trap in a trap

My capacity for happiness, he added, you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first

Fun fact: The United Nations building in New York City is the only place in all of North America where smoking is still permitted indoors.

The trouble is that practically everything one does nowadays is illegal," said Giles gloomily. "That's why one has a permanent feeling of guilt.

All this red tape and form-filling. That's what comes of a bureaucratic state. Can't go where you like and do as you please anymore! Somebody's always asking questions.

As a child, we lived in flats, and I was never allowed pets.

As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon.

I saw that e-mail was insidiously invading Phones 4u, so I banned it immediately.

I was a very good student. But I didn't have the latitude to study more. I was never allowed to do anything cross-disciplinary. Why can't an engineering student learn physics?

When I was young, my mother would not let me get my ears pierced because I used to get into too many fights.

We must have the courage to restrict legal immigration instead of expanding it, even if we sometimes have to build a wall.

I couldn't go anywhere unless there was a security guard with me. That spoiled my life. It was like being in captivity. Those days are gone, and I don't ever want to see that happen to me again. Now I can wander around the streets of Los Angeles on my own. I like it that way.