Quotes About Constraint

As he later remarked, sometimes freedom can become as repressive as direct repression.

Mari remembered what she had read in the young girl's eyes the moment she had come into the refectory: fear. Fear. Veronika might feel insecurity, shyness, shame, constraint, but why fear? That was only justifiable when confronted by a real threat: ferocious animals, armed attackers, earthquakes, but not a group of people gathered together in a refectory. But human beings are like that,' she thought. 'We've replaced nearly all our emotions with fear.

To those who think that the law of gravity interferes with their freedom, there is nothing to say.

Art chooses its constraints.

Count art by gold, and it fetters the feet it once winged.

Art is fast, but with art you're tied down. That's too negative. What I mean is, you have a business and a place that you go every day. I guess some artists do move around.

Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.

Alas! in nature, as in art, we gain only according to our capacity. You cannot put an ocean in a pint pot.

The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.

A painter must compensate the natural deficiencies of his art. He has but one sentence to utter, but one moment to exhibit. He cannot, like the poet or historian, expatiate, and impress the mind.

Judging art is like caging a bird. Instead of seeing it soar, you can only watch it flutter.

An artist that makes art merely to meet a demand is a slave to what his patrons wants to see, or, hear.

Okay, I sighed. I don't like it, but my hands are tied. I just want you to know this: if I ever get the chance to betray you, I will. If the opportunity arises to pay you back, I'll take it. You'll never be able to trust me. Fair enough, he said.

Responsibility was our cruel mooring....

There are no choices without personal freedom…We say that one cannot be human without freedom…Your freedom is the freedom from, no one tells your precious individual USA selves what they must do. It is this meaning only, this freedom from constraint, and forced duress. But what of the freedom to? Not just free from. Not all compulsion comes from the without…how for the person to freely choose?

You might consider how to escape from a cage must surely require, foremost, awareness of the fact of the cage.

I had as lief have the foppery of freedom as the morality of imprisonment.

Ale mo?e raczej nale?a?oby powiedzie?, ?e naczeln?, podstawow? m?k? jest nie co innego, tylko cierpienie, zrodzone z ograniczenia drugim cz?owiekiem, z tego, ?e si? dusimy i d?awimy w ciasnym, w?skim, sztywnym wyobra?eniu o nas drugiego cz?owieka.

I have nothing to say of my working life, only that a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he's not careful.

I have nothing to say of my working life, only that a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he's not careful.

a tie is a noose

The queen of the Fells is both the most powerful and the least free person in the entire queendom.She is a slave to duty once she comes of age.

The gag stifles all screams and eliminates all but the most violent moans, while allowing tears to flow without constraint. There was no question of using it that night. On the contrary, they wanted to hear her scream." She'd

Mis previsiones me cerraban el mundo.