Quotes About Constraint

Even the most miserable life is better than a sheltered existence in an organized society where everything is calculated and perfected.

We are all prisoners but some of us are in cells with windows and some without.

This concern with the basic condition of freedom — the absence of physical constraint — is unquestionably necessary, but is not all that is necessary. It is perfectly possible for a man to be out of prison and yet not free — to be under no physical constraint and yet to be a psychological captive, compelled to think, feel and act as the representatives of the national State, or of some private interest within the nation, want him to think, feel and act.

The nature of psychological compulsion is such that those who act under constraint remain under the impression that they are acting on their own initiative. The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free. That he is not free is apparent only to other people. His servitude is strictly objective.

Free as a bird', we say, and envy the winged creatures for their power of unrestricted movement in all three dimensions. But, alas, we forget the dodo. Any bird that has learned how to grub up a good living without being compelled to use its wings will soon renounce the privilege of flight and remain forever grounded.

Pero, aunque indispensable, la organización también puede ser fatal. La organización excesiva transforma a hombres y mujeres en autómatas, sofoca el espíritu creador y suprime la misma posibilidad de la libertad.

Un conto è non far niente. Un conto è non poter far niente-

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

For once again she sensed that our heart is not always able to say what it wants to say and frequently has to content itself with less.

She decided to change the subject. Hooks were useful, but there was a limit to what one could say about them.

Most Mistress no more free do what they want than I is or Pork is or ary colored.

In physical, exponentially growing systems, there must be at least one reinforcing loop driving the growth and at least one balancing loop constraining the growth, because no physical system can grow forever in a finite environment.

A quantity growing exponentially toward a constraint or limit reaches that limit in a surprisingly short time.

If we're to understand anything, we have to simplify, which means we have to make boundaries.

At any given time, the input that is most important to a system is the one that is most limiting.

How he loathed his life-long slavery to the clock, that pervasive intimate negative opposed to every spontaneous impulse. "It's the clock that is the nay-sayer to life," he thought

To a 2D being, there is no up and down, just side to side. No matter how hard they try, they can't pry their eyes or bodies from the page.

The easiest way for you to make sense of this is to imagine that you're a two-dimensional being. A being flatter than the flattest pancake, living on the surface of a giant, empty, plastic box. As a 2D being, you can only see the surface of the

It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off.

To bring the balloon of the mind that bellies and drags in the wind, as Yeats had so perfectly put it, into its narrow shed.

And the simple fact was that it might be possible to make oneself fall in love, but only when the heart was free. Amy was having to accept that her heart was not free.

Duress rarely calls out its name. Often it is a mute condition of constraint. Legally it does something else. To claim to be "under duress" in a court of law does not absolve one of a crime or exonerate the fact of one. On the contrary, it admits a culpability—a condition induced by illegitimate pressure. But it is productive, too, of a diminished, burned-out will not to succumb, when one is stripped of the wherewithal to have acted differently or better.

Whether you're beaten or pampered, fed the best foods or starved, kept in filth or kept clean, a cage is still a cage

But there is always a 'but' in this imperfect world.