Quotes About Constraint

Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal.

Most men are prisoners at best, Who some strong habit every drag about Like chain and ball.

The bachelors admired freedom is often a yoke, for the freer a man is to himself the greater slave he often is to the whims of others.

How rarely I meet with a man who can be free, even in thought! We all live according to rule. Some men are bedridden; all world-ridden.

Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society.

Man is everywhere still in chains.

As pessoas não percebem o quanto não são livres lá onde mais livres se sentem, porque a regra de tal ausência de liberdade foi abstraída delas.

To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.

I had written in another draft a completely different kind of fight, but they said they couldn't afford to shoot it. They needed a fight scene, though, so I was told to put a fight scene in, but not the one I had written.

The negative side is that sometimes it is beyond control.

It's just that sometimes, our future is dictated by what we are, as opposed to what we want.

They weren't happy. The otters knew they weren't living in a real river. It wasn't the life that they were meant to live, or even wanted to live, but there was nothing they could do to change it.

The social system is taking on a form in which finding out what you want to do is less and less of an option because your life is too structured, organised, controlled and disciplined.

It means that students, if they don't come from very wealthy families, they're going to leave college with big debts. And if you have a big debt, you're trapped. I mean, maybe you wanted to become a public interest lawyer, but you're going to have to go into a corporate law firm to pay off those debts. And by the time you're part of the culture, you're not going to get out of it again.

You have to unhook your seat belt. That's not true. I'm afraid it's difficult to walk on the beach if you're strapped to a car seat.

She held herself rigid in his grasp, but he

Perhaps life itself occurred as a sort of prison she felt compelled to escape.

Weren't allowed to carry blasters.

The fruit of too much liberty is slavery.

During the course of an ordinary day, we are constrained by a kind of natural caution, an anticipation of possible difficulties and problems, which tint our consciousness a shade of grey. Talking and thinking about peak experiences makes us realize how lucky we are, and that we can dispense with the caution and constraint. It is like realizing that you have more money in the bank than you thought.

To forbid the thought of escape, even that slightest butterfly thought of escape, was to murder one's humanity.

The thing about the Occupation is that it never let you decide. It took away your ability for choice. Banish it and choice would appear.

could barely contain his

We can't all do everything.