Quotes About Constraint

O! how short a time does it take to put an end to a woman's liberty!

The more security we have, the less freedom there is; more freedom means less security. You can hardly enough of both at the same time.

La libertad está estrechamente ligada a la coerción, es decir a aquello que la niega o limita.

As for the life of money-making, it is one of constraint, and wealth manifestly is not the good we are seeking, because it is for use, that is, for the sake of something further:

The thought of a ring around my finger always made me feel tied tight, because rings had no openings to get out of.

There's a limit to everything; even chicken soup with kreplach can get to be too much.

It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built up upon a renunciation of instinct....

seperate morality from its effects, and you will see that everyone regards ias a nuisance, an annoying brake on their freedom of action.

Les coutures, les modes sont souvent apliquées à couper les corps féminin de a transcendance: la Chinoise aux pieds bandés peut à peine marcher, les griffes vernies de la star d'Hollywood la privent de ses mains, les hauts talons, les corsets, les paniers, les vertugadins, les crinolines étaient destinés moins à accentuer la combrure du corps féminin qu'à en augmenter l'impotence.

Era, por tanto, libre como una alondra -es decir, todo lo libre que se puede ser con un ingreso diario de once chelines y medio-.

...suffering and freedom have their limits...those limits are very near together.

A prisoner should know that there are thousands of imprisoned freemen living in this world…jailed in their own society, handcuffed by duties..

Physics is imagination in a straight jacket.

If our moral principles always existed in a vivid and healthy state, there might be little need for the slow retrogressive process of induction in ethics; but as these instincts are peculiarly liable to be enfeebled, curtailed, and perverted by individual neglect, as well as social constraint, the corrective and cathartic process by induction on a more extended basis becomes necessary for the worst men, and not without utility for the best.

All errors which he is likely to commit against advice and warning, are far outweighed by the evil of allowing others to constrain him to what they deem his good.

Never overdo anything, always have a limit and do keep to it. For, that's just what it means to be self-controlled. ~Emeasoba George

Never overdo anything, have a limit and keep to it.

Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty.

Una poesía digna de ese nombre comienza por la experiencia de la fatalidad. Sólo los malos poetas son libres.

have a ball and chain strapped around his ankle.

Buying jeans is a trivial matter, but it suggests a much larger theme we will pursue throughout this book, which is this: When people have no choice, life is almost unbearable.

I find the older I get, the more I realize that time is really an illusion. Its like something we created, a constraint that we created so that we feel like we have control of something we have absolutely no control of.

I was not cut out to be a rebel.

Freedom is the recognition of necessity.