Quotes About Restriction

Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.

Well, when you think about it black American culture evolved over three and a half centuries. Every minute under which they lived under oppression and they adapted to dealing with the fact that those freedoms were going to be cut off. They had to somehow make a life within all of those restriction, and they did.

Partitions and cubicles can be oppressive. They are so boring.

Everywhere you go somebody is on a diet. Everywhere you go in L.A. there is a no-carb option.

I was ordered not to go out to Abu Ghraib after dark early on, because Abu Ghraib was extremely dangerous.

I was born in New Orleans, and I wasn't allowed to go to the movies.

There ought to be a law against necessity.

China's government has far more control over the country's economy than our government has over ours, and it is moving from export dependence to a model of growth driven by domestic demand. Any restriction on exports to the U.S. would simply accelerate a process already underway.

I have some flamboyant outfits. It wouldn't be me if I didn't. But I'm married now. I'm not allowed to wear those outfits.

My parents locked off most areas of expression. The only outlet left to me was the arts.

If you tell me I can't eat something, I'll obsess over it and end up overeating!

Rooms without a view are like prisons for the people who have to stay in them.

Prohibitions, trust me, only encourage bad behaviour.

Morality is not first and foremost about restriction and constraint. It's about human flourishing. It's also about the deepest sort of happiness. And it's about living a good life, which is, in fact, the best life. It's all about what you honor, cultivate, do, and become. It's common to think of any rules and structures

Ultimately, he decreed that anyone who published a book without prior approval would be excommunicated.

My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.

A yes doens't mean the same thing when it's the only answer you're allowed.

Matthew rolled up in the Kahns' dilapidated van. "Hey there, vagrants," he said. "Sorry, my mom says I'm not allowed to pick up hitchhikers.

WHOSE IDEA WAS IT TO LET YOU HAVE PAPER AND INK?

you can't own one. They are non-importable

The inhabitants of all those worlds are trapped in little bubbles where nothing they do can have more than a local effect. Naturally these societies degenerate into savagery.

The world is your oyster... ...too bad you're allergic to shellfish.

an ugly steel fence you might associate with a prison perimeter, twenty-five feet high, like nothing I had seen in any other country.

From now on the only times you will open your mouth here in the presence of a man will be to cry out or to caress." So