Quotes About Constraint

Man is to be held only by the slightest chains; with the idea that he can break them at pleasure, he submits to them in sport.

It was kind of boring for me to have to eat. I would know that I had to, and I would.

Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Freedom to do what one likes is really bondage, while being free to do what one must, what is right, is real freedom.

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

The implication of game theory, which is also the implication of the third image, is, however, that the freedom of choice of any one state is limited by the actions of the others.

What is freedom? There is no such thing as absolute freedom!

That there is also freedom in captivity, only a prisoner can claim. Coming from a prison guard, this statement would be blasphemy.

Freedom is the dream you dream While putting thought in chains again --

Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

Creativity needs discipline and freedom.

Happy slaves are the bitterest enemies of freedom.

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Every step into freedom contains within it the potential for greater bondage.

The misconception of totalitarianism is that freedom can be imprisoned. This is not the case. When you constrain freedom, freedom will take flight and land on a windowsill.

Choice depends on the freedom to choose and if you are shackled with debt you don't have the freedom to choose.

Limitation of means is a precondition of excellence. Creative freedom chooses its limitations. Destructive freedom rejects them heedlessly.

Always late: thus I make you the prisoner of my freedom.

Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice.

Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, which is to be what one is and no other.

My freedom consists in my moving about within the narrow frame that I have assigned myself for each one of my undertakings.

The difference between freedom and slavery is one thin line

Freedom is not having a big budget.