Quotes About Restriction

These names of gentleman and lady had a meaning, in the past history of the world, and conferred privileges, desirable, or otherwise, on those entitled to bear them. In the present—and still more in the future condition of society—they imply, not privilege, but restriction.

Try to think like a human,' said Gant, lolling in one of the club chairs. 'Why should I restrict myself so severely?

Permission is the bloated corpse of freedom.

You were not given permission to have talent," the captain tells me.

All his life there was only one thing Lec was allowed to believe. It had surrounded him, cocooned him, constricted him with the same stifling softness as the layers of insulation around him now. For the first time in his life, Lev feels those bounds around his soul begin to loosen.

What men call love is a very small, restricted, feeble thing compared with this ineffable orgy, this divine prostitution of the soul giving itself entire, all its poetry and all its charity, to the unexpected as it comes along, to the stranger as he passes.

Everything else just kept picking and picking, hacking away. And nothing was interesting, nothing. The people were restrictive and careful, all alike. And I've got to live with these fuckers for the rest of my life, I thought.

complaint is often the result of an insufficient ability to live within the obvious restrictions of this god damned cage.

For Christ's sake, if they legalized pot half the people would stop smoking it. Prohibition created more drunks than grandmother's wart. It's only when you can't do that you want to do.

For the baby boomer generation, a home is now seen not as the cornerstone of advancement but a ball and chain, restricting their ability and their mobility to move and seek out a job at another location.

I've got 4,000 cell phone minutes, and I take it to the limit every month.

To get to the only club in my area you had to cross a really busy road and my mother forbade me from going there.

In Virginia, the printing press was deliberately restricted by the powers that be, to keep reading matter from the masses, while the aristocracy often had impressive libraries in their homes.396

We always want what we're not allowed.

People feel tremendous pressure to settle down in some sort of permanent space and fill it up with stuff, but deep inside they resent those structures, and they're scared to death of that stuff because they know it controls them and restricts their movements.

restriction upon autonomy and initiative.

Real dystopias are more like the old Soviet Union rather than Mad Max: They are stiflingly bureaucratic rather than lawless.

Banning the inevitable usually backfires. Prohibition is at best temporary, and in the long counterproductive. A

Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water." —W. C. FIELDS

I'm not allowed to walk topside, nor can I walk below deck. What could possibly be left for me to do? Oh, I know. Die from boredom! (Serenity)

We humans are confined to our brane.

South Dakota's new constitution forbade the appropriation of public money to provide relief.

By the way, remember that, all of you. On no account go up to the fourth floor.

exploitation of the Negro through economic restriction and segregation the present system is sound and will doubtless continue until this gives place to the saner policy of actual interracial cooperation--not the present farce of racial manipulation in which the Negro is a figurehead.