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Quotes About Restriction

Look at Snowden or Julian Assange. In their own way, they are free without restrictions. They are dropped in a place because of political reasons.
~ Amor Towles
Para não nos deixar aflitos, a natureza fez bem em restringir ao lado de fora a nossa ação de enxergar.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Of these, one and only one method has proven to extend the life span of animals, sometimes even doubling it. It is caloric restriction, or severely limiting the intake of calories in an animal's diet.
~ Michio Kaku
Beliefs are collars to which leashes can be attached
~ Mike Carey
I can't escape from here. Not because it's too high but because I've nowhere to go.
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
a person who thinks should not try to persuade others to his belief; that is what puts him on the road to a system; on the lamentable road of the man of conviction; politicians like to call themselves that; but what is a conviction? It is a thought that has come to a stop, that has congealed, and the man of conviction is a man restricted.
~ Milan Kundera
Every one of my novels could be entitled The Unbearable Lightness of Being or The Joke or Laughable Loves; the titles are interchangeable, they reflect the small number of themes that obsess me, define me, and unfortunately, restrict me. Beyond these themes, I have nothing else to say or write.
~ Milan Kundera
Although these examples only scratch the surface, they illustrate the fundamental proposition that freedom is one whole, that anything that reduces freedom in one part of our lives is likely to affect freedom in the other parts.
~ Milton Friedman
I think if you put something in a file that says "war poems" or "love poems" that you already restrict the way in which the poem might move.
~ Rita Dove
I'd love to be able to fit in a box. Like one of those people who fit into small boxes. I'd love it.
~ Robert Pattinson
When Im not training day in and day out I love to go out and dance, even though it is potentially in my contract that Im not allowed to do that.
~ Taylor Phinney
I love bacon, but I don't think we need it on everything.
~ Anthony Bourdain
Love's a dog in a manger.
~ D. H. Lawrence
And I try to teach my heart not to want nothing it can't have.
~ Alice Walker, The Color Purple
In no place save from the windows in the castle walls is there an available exit. The castle is a veritable prison, and I am a prisoner!
~ Bram Stoker
You may go anywhere you wish in the castle, except where the doors are locked
~ Bram Stoker
Government, if it has any purpose at all (and many libertarians doubt it does), should be restricted to the protection of its citizens' persons and property against direct violence and theft.
~ Brian Doherty
I have to lay off dairy though. That's what my doctor threw in. As I was leaving his office, Oh, and uh, leave off dairy. What kind of blanket sweep is that? And no more happiness! Away with you!
~ Brian Regan
Hey, lay off the dairy. And uh, no more happiness.
~ Brian Regan
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there
~ Bukowski C.
I thought we'd already determined that you haven't the right to order me about. That can only be purchased with a special license from the archbishop. He shook his head before saying softly, I'm afraid I can no longer afford to purchase such a license. Not when it could cost the both of us so dearly.
~ Teresa Medeiros
Our skills, you will find, could be our jailers.
~ Terry Pratchett
Journal paywalls are an example of something that works in the reverse direction, making communication less open and efficient.
~ Alexandra Elbakyan
There's no place to act in Kansas. You're supressed.
~ Shirley Knight