Quotes About Restriction

DHL, the courier service, had already stopped delivering to the area, but would still drop off packages to war zones such as Afghanistan and Iraq.

What kind of a God makes bodies and forbids you to use them?

Only of course they bleeped out the good part because it's daytime TV, and we all know that no one in America swears.

Enframing describes our narrow, restricted understanding of ourselves and all things in existence in terms of 'resources' to be organized, enhanced and exploited efficiently.

I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.

The whole point of bureaucracy is to reduce the possibilities of your life to the greatest possible degree when it doesn't simply succeed in destroying them; from the bureaucratic point of view, a good citizen is a dead citizen.

To maintain order in your bureaucratic life, you more or less have to stay home; go away for any length of time and you're always likely to run afoul of some agency or other.

When you were a little kid, remember how hard it was to get a cookie? Way in the back, unless your mom was really mean: Then they'd be on top of the refrigerator. Nowhere, any place on a package of Oreos does it say, "Keep out of reach of small children." Where was the Liquid Drano? Under the sink, right next to the rest of the poisons.

IMPAIRMENT: Lacking part or all of…or having a defective limb, organism or mechanism of the body DISABILITY: The disadvantage or restriction of activity caused by a contemporary social organization which takes no or little account of people who have physical [and/or cognitive/developmental/mental] impairments and thus excludes them from the mainstream of society. ~

We still couldn't use "ass" any way we pleased. In one script, we had the phrase "up his ass"; Fox censors asked us to change it to "in his ass." That seemed worse, but we did as they asked.

No pasta. I'm serious. I will climb out of my coffin if anyone brings a baked ziti.

But on the political front, the Golden Straitjacket narrows the political and economic policy choices of those in power to relatively tight parameters. . . .

I]nfinity is not part of the real world.

You cannot define anything that is beyond your sight and imagination.

Dear Ms. Baird,   As of today, you do have a slave clause in your contract. It means you do everything I say. Under no circumstances are you to eat, sleep, take breaks, or check in to hotel rooms with men named Eggplant.   Sincerely, Gabriel

Dear Ms. Baird, As of today, you do have a slave clause in your contract. It means you do everything I say. Under no circumstances are you to eat, sleep, take breaks, or check in to hotel rooms with men named Eggplant. Sincerely, Gabriel

why should we acquiesce in letting philosophical naturalists prescribe the definition of science itself? The only reason for restricting science to methodological naturalism is if we assume from the outset that philosophical naturalism is true—that nature is a closed system of cause and effect. But if it is not true, then restricting science to naturalistic theories is not a good strategy for getting at the truth.47

There is no safety that does not also restrict us. And many needless restrictions feel safe and comfortable. It is so hard to know, at any moment, the distinction between being safe and being caged. It is hard to know when it is better to choose freedom and fear, and when it is simply foolhardy. I have often, I think, too often erred on the side of caution.

She wondered if she should have explained herself more clearly. She could not explain herself at all. There were no words, no permitted words, to explain anything that she wanted to say. All the words that could have communicated it had been banned, not only from her mouth but even from her mind. She was reduced to mere actions, which are both more and less than words.

Small places make for small lives

You can ask me for anything you like, except time

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.

I will take away your means of escape.

I did not have an unlimited library to choose from on Robben Island. We had access to many unremembered mysteries and detective novels and all the works of Daphne du Maurier, but little more.