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Quotes About Restriction

My bans extended to meetings of all kinds, not only political ones. I could not, for example, attend my son's birthday party. I was prohibited from talking to more than one person at a time. This was part of a systematic effort by the government to silence, persecute and immobilize the leaders of those fighting apartheid and was the first of a series of bans on me that continued with brief intervals of freedom until the time I was deprived of all freedom some years later.
~ Nelson Mandela
El planeta ya no da para +
~ Nicanor Parra
But initially government regulation still prevented farmers from leaving their home villages, giving rise to the phrase "leaving the land without leaving the village" (?????
~ Unknown
Sometimes I feel like this whole city is one vast organism. It's like a human being that we're all part of. But we're restricted by the roads, by the waterways, by the tunnels, the trains. It's like our paths are all laid out for us, and there's no way of deviating from them. That's what makes that cat different from us.
~ Unknown
Of course, no antiwolf advocate points to the unrestricted slaughter and habitat reduction, not by wolves but by humans, that speeded the demise of those great herds of bison, deer, and elk reported by Lewis and Clark.
~ Unknown
Command isolated her more effectively than a deadly disease.
~ Nicola Griffith
the belief that the threat of rape is everywhere, that it can happen at any time, that it is the worst fate that can befall women, is enough to make us police ourselves and restrict our own mobility. But on the other hand, feminists also want to demystify rape, to begin to see it not as a unique and life-destroying form of violation from which one can never recover, but as (merely) another kind of violence against person.
~ Unknown
Prison is a process, a succession of imprisonments. At first it operates only on a physical level, restricting your movement. Later, it extends to the psychological plane, encompassing your very perception. You come to exclude all thoughts, all visions of the free world.
~ Unknown
Ole Massa always see that we get plenty to eat. O' course it was no fancy rations. Just corn bread, milk, fat meat, and 'lasses, but the Lord knows that was lots more than other poor niggers got. Some of them had such bad masters. Us poor niggers never allowed to learn anything. All the readin' they ever hear was when they was carried through the big Bible. The massa say that keep the slaves in they places.
~ Unknown
He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried.
~ Unknown
A long leash is still a leash.
~ Octavia E. Butler
My soul, sir? I haven't got one. The management doesn't allow them.
~ Olaf Stapledon
They pretend they're keeping everyone out, when in fact they're locked in.
~ Unknown
I'm only drinking white wine because I'm on a diet and I don't eat.
~ Oliver Reed
Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Warrior Diet is the only diet today that challenges all common dietary concepts and offers a real alternative—guidelines that are not based on superficial restrictions, but rather on true principles of human nutrition.
~ Ori Hofmekler
We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us.
~ Ovid
If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
bouncer inside. There was probably
~ Unknown
If creation was given no limit, ultimately everything would cease to exist.
~ Patricia Briggs
My world has always been so small, hidden behind walls.
~ Patrick Carman
Not surprisingly, nondemocratic regimes by their nature are built around the restriction of individual freedom.
~ Unknown
I hate being confined, especially when it's for my own good.
~ Patti Smith
The time is coming to an end when you can wander the roads of the world as free and easy as you like, and meet a stranger across firelight. They will fence in the world entire ere they are done, the clever men of this earth, and there will be no space left on it for vagabonds, and dreamers... and little lost girls running from their fate.
~ Paul Kearney