Quotes About Constraint

Realpolitik for Bismarck depended on flexibility and on the ability to exploit every available option without the constraint of ideology.

He was not to blame for being born with an irrepressible charachter and a mind some how constrained.

There never has been and cannot be a good life without self-control. Apart from self-control no good life is imaginable.

Such is the inevitable fate of men of action, and the higher they stand in the social hierarchy the less are they free.

During all this early time they had a peculiarly vivid sense of tension, as it were, a tugging in opposite directions of the chain by which they were bound.

It's not a guideline—it's a deadline.

This Aristotle knew definitely: the truth has the power to force or constrain men, all men alike, whether it be the great Parmenides and the great Alexander or Parmenides' unknown slave and the least of Alexander's stable-men

Language makes infinite use of finite media.

Our alliances should be understood as a means to expand our influence, not as a constraint on our power. The expansion of democracy and freedom in the world should be a shared interest and value with all nations.

My mother was very, very beautiful, and I saw that the beautiful women around me were often constrained not only by their beauty but by the way that being an object of male desire frequently caused violence in their lives. And it caused them to be constrained in these terribly sad ways - their brilliance was not valued.

Even having to water flowers is too much constraint.

Our wisdom is slavish prejudice, our customs consist in control, constraint, compulsion. Civilised man is born and dies a slave. The infant is bound up in swaddling clothes, the corpse is nailed down in his coffin. All his life long man is imprisoned by our institutions.

L'homme est né libre, et partout il est dans les fers.

Perché l'impulso del solo appetito è schiavitù, e l'obbedienza alla legge che noi stessi ci siamo dati è libertà.

L'uomo è nato libero e ovunque si trova in catene

Every word I say has chains round its ankles; every thought I think is weighted with heavy weights. Since I was born, hasn't every word I've said, every thought I've thought, everything I've done, been tied up, weighted, chained? And mind you, I know that with all this I don't succeed. Or I succeed in flashes only too damned well. ...But think how hard I try and how seldom I dare. Think - and have a bit of pity. That is, if you ever think, you apes, which I doubt.

Nous ne commençons à prouver quelque chose qu'en persévérant jusque dans un âge où déjà nous sommes contraints à l'économie.

Perhaps it is true that the world is made new again every day but our minds are not. The clamp that holds me will not let me go.

MAN is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.

There is no subjection so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom.

Man is born free, but is everywhere in chains.

Man is born free but today everywhere he is in chains.

T]he mere impulse of appetite is slavery, while obedience to a law which we prescribe to ourselves is liberty.

Die Freiheit des Menschen liegt nicht darin, dass er tun kann, was er will, sondern dass er nicht tun muss, was er nicht will.