Quotes About Restriction

These decrees of yours are no different from spiders' webs. They'll restrain anyone weak and insignificant who gets caught in them, but they'll be torn to shreds by people with power and wealth.

Of all human troubles the most hateful is to feel that you have the capacity of power and yet you have no field to excercise it.

The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.

Scientists rightly resist invoking the supernatural in scientific explanations for fear of committing a god-of-the-gaps fallacy (the fallacy of using God as a stop-gap for ignorance). Yet without some restriction on the use of chance, scientists are in danger of committing a logically equivalent fallacy-one we may call the "chance-of-the-gaps fallacy." Chance, like God, can become a stop-gap for ignorance.

First, If the command of Christ to teach all nations be restricted to the apostles, or those under the immediate inspiration of the Holy Ghost, then that of baptizing should be so too; and every denomination of Christians, except the Quakers, do wrong in baptizing with water at all.

Freedom to do as we're told under the law!

Pouring out liquor is like burning books.

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.

it smelled like jail...sore knees and loose assholes.

Prison for the crime of puberty -- that was how secondary school had seemed.

She was artificially narrowing herself, amputating every humane and tender piece that didn't fit into a rigid frame.

Many activities were forbidden on the Sabbath: work, play, and unnecessary travel. Even minor instances of Sabbath-breaking were punished with much severity. The Essex County Court indicted a man for carrying a burden on the Sabbath, and punished a woman for brewing on the Lord's Day. When Ebenezer Taylor of Yarmouth, Massachusetts, fell into a forty-foot well, his rescuers stopped digging on Saturday afternoon while they debated whether it was lawful to rescue him on the Sabbath. Other

The law always limits every power it gives.

The good thing about a jail show is nobody gets up and walks out.

I don't know if I can live on my income or not - the government won't let me try it.

If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.

To the size of the state there is a limit, as there is to plants, animals and implements, for none of these retain their facility when they are too large.

The more heavily the government regulates the market, the more competition is impeded.

The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.

You call it a 'loophole' when the government still allows you some freedom.

My quarrel is not with the legitimate role of government but with the unlimited role of government.

I can imagine [the government] trying to tell Steven Spielberg 'We need 50 different cuts of your movie for each state.' It will screw us up in a real way.

Governments everywhere, including here in the Unites States, have created ever-expanding bureaucracies that regulate nearly every aspect of our lives.

Inability is often the mother of restriction, and restriction is the great mother of inventive performance.