Quotes About Constraint

What is voluntary comes from the will; what is forced comes to the will from outside and prevents it from doing what it will.

the mere necessity brings with it a dispensation, since necessity knows no law. . . .

Of course I am happy here! It's wonderful! Especially when I have no choice!

The truth is rarely as liberating as people would have us believe; it often binds more than it frees.

We made it up and then we were stuck with what we made up.

Everything dictated silence and self-control but I couldn't restrain myself and spoke my mind.

Inhibition doesn't grow on trees, you know—takes patience, takes concentration, takes a dedicated and self-sacrificing parent and a hard-working attentive little child to create in only a few years' time a really constrained and tight-ass human being.

Trump broke free of this constraint, and it is safe to say that political correctness will never have the stranglehold on public discourse that it once did.

Appropriate. The word is a well-dressed cage, used to capture the truth and hang it in a room that no one ventures into.

only carry about a hundred

Time, time, time . . . Roger muttered. Ask me for anything but time.

If you went to a home, kicked down the front door, chased the people who lived there out into the street and said, "Go! You are free! Free as a bird! Go! Go!"—do you think they would shout and dance for joy? They wouldn't. Birds are not free. The people you've

White free speech and white creative freedom have been founded on the constraint of others, and are not natural rights.

but that coldness stopped up the sentence in my mouth. "What

My folks were raised pure prohibitionist. They were very good people, with high moral standards - but very repressed. There was no hugging and kissing in my home.

one has control only until he's forced to exercise it.

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Restraint. The original purpose of cultivating restraint is so that eventually one will not need to have restraint.

My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes strength. The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self of the chains that shackle the spirit.

Zoos are full, prisons are overflowing. Ah, my. How the world still dearly loves a cage.

The only kind of questions he could answer were those that took "yes" or "no" for an answer — by shaking his head up and down or from side to side — and that limited them to about one out of every ten that they wanted to put to him. I saw red when I saw how helpless he was.

no choice was wrong except the one that was imposed on us.

People had no more choice than animals about the burdens they carried.

I don't necessarily think that having more money helps make you make a better film. Sometimes having less money is better. You're forced into being more original; you're forced into hearing something versus seeing it.