Quotes About Constraint

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

All our wisdom consists in servile prejudices. All our practices are only subjection, impediment, and constraint. Civil man is born, lives, and dies in slavery. At his birth he is sewed in swaddling clothes; at his death he is nailed in a coffin. So long as he keeps his human shape, he is enchained by our institutions.

l'impulsion du seul appétit est esclavage, et l'obéissance à la loi qu'on s'est prescrite est liberté.

no puede liberarse cuando el resorte civil se ha gastado.

Güç maddesel bir ÅŸeydir. Bundan nas?l bir ahlak ç?kabilir, bilmem. Güce boyun eÄŸmek, bir istem iÅŸi deÄŸil, bir zorunluluk; olsa olsa bir sak?nt? iÅŸidir. Ne bak?mdan ödev olabilir bu?

Nikdy jsem nemyslil, že svoboda ?lovÄ›ka by záležela v tom, aby dÄ›lal, co chce, nýbrž spíÅ¡, aby nikdy nedÄ›lal, co nechce, a to je svoboda, jíž jsem se vždy dovolával, ?asto ji zachovával a pro kterou jsem byl nejvíce svým vrstevník?m k pohorÅ¡ení

There are in all ages men born to be in bondage to the opinions of the society in which they live.

they dam up the future. As long as you stay between these walls, whatever happens must happen to the right or the left of the stove...Thus these objects serve at least to fix the limits of probability.

Il y a quelque chose de coincé dans le mécanisme

Self-censorship, whether known or unknown, is an unwelcome brake on creativity; it stifles self-expression and hence prevents a work from reaching the heights of great art.

You have to work with what you are given, even in Shakespeare. we have our form and it is important that we free ourselves through it.

The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.

It seems to me the structure of the Quartets is too imposed.

You can't write much quality, original music on a concertina.

The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.

There ought to be a law against necessity.

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

Fisher's fundamental theorem: "The more highly adapted an organism becomes, the less adaptable it is to any new change." Fisher's example was the giraffe. It is highly adapted to food found up among the tree branches, but so unadaptable to a new situation that it can not even pick up a peanut from the ground at the zoo. The more optimized an organism (organization) is, the more likely that the slack necessary to help it become more effective has been eliminated.

Morality is not first and foremost about restriction and constraint. It's about human flourishing. It's also about the deepest sort of happiness. And it's about living a good life, which is, in fact, the best life. It's all about what you honor, cultivate, do, and become. It's common to think of any rules and structures

Above all, the thrall in which an ideology holds a people is best measured by their collective inability to imagine alternatives.

any strength overused ultimately becomes a liability.

A yes doens't mean the same thing when it's the only answer you're allowed.

Foucault recognised that the most important aspect of power lay in social relations. Individuals might have power in the form of domination and constraint; but more important, power was also involved in the production and use of knowledge.