Quotes About Constraint

Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?

The real slavery of to-day is slavery to ideals of virtue.

Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.

The younger had always worn a yoke; but is there any yoked creature without its private opinions?

There was no delivering himself from his cage, however;

for it was nearly five o'clock; and if people are to quarrel often, it follows as a corollary that their quarrels cannot be protracted beyond certain limits.

You do what you can--can't do much more than that.

Freedom without limits is just a word.

My creativity thrives with limitations.

The entertainment business can't thrive without putting you in a box.

If you tie a man's hands there is nothing moral about his not committing murder.

A kite needs to be tied down in order to fly. I learned how important restrictions can sometimes be in order to experience freedom.

In TV writing, I felt like Gulliver being tied down by the Lilliputians. There's so much more freedom in fiction writing.

In our youths, many of us suspected that being tied down to a partner and family might constrain us. But after 40, even that landscape starts to shift. Many singletons turn inward and start longing for the things so many of us longed to be free of in our 20s.

Sometimes, the thing that ties you down sets you free.

We live in a world where the laws are getting so tight that management has changed to micro-management to quantum-management to paralysis.

So much of the work of oppression is policing the imagination.

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

I've made movies that cost less than one car chase.

La diferencia entre ponerse una máscara, que siempre es ocasión de libertad, y que le obliguen a uno a ponérsela, es la misma que hay entre refugio y cárcel.

The man of affectation may, perhaps, be reclaimed, by finding how little he is likely to gain by perpetual constraint and incessant vigilance, and how much more securely he might make his way to esteem, by cultivating real, than by displaying counter

In order to dismantle such a discourse we must begin with the realization that desire is never "outside all social constraint." Desire may be outside one set of constraints or another; but social constraints are what engender desire; and, one way or another, even at its most apparently catastrophic, they contour desire's expression.

I'll dabble here and there in different forms of the art, but the label has me locked down like a slave so, of course, I'll be doing albums during this time

Entire generations of Americans have come of age since the ancient time when the president's power was constrained by a duty of candor to the American people.