Quotes About Constraint

faith is a free work to which no one can be forced. Heresy is a spiritual matter and cannot be prevented by constraint. Force may avail either to strengthen alike faith and heresy, or to break down integrity and turn a heretic into a hypocrite who confesses with his lips what he does not believe in his heart. Better to let men err than to drive them to lie".

I think being famous is more of a hindrance, a constraint, than just letting yourself be free.

Desperate pieces of string that hold us up but at the same time keep us from being anything other than what we have always been.

I could feel formality wrapping around me, covering me like plastic wrap on leftover roast.

I do not see any beauty in self-restraint.

Between the poles of individualism and community, freedom and constraint, pragmatism emerged as a genuinely American philosophical outlook—and as a way of life.

Limited resources. Everything's a zero-sum game." "What

Limited resources. Everything's a zero-sum game.

Renunciation essentially means simplifying one's mind, one's words, and one's activities, by letting go of what obstructs inner freedom. Constraint creates frustration; renunciation produces a real sense of joy.

Alles Heilige ist ein Band, eine Fessel.

Everything sacred is a tie, a fetter.

Das Gefängnis betritt man gewöhnlich nicht freiwillig und bleibt auch selten freiwillig darin, sondern hegt das egoistische Verlangen nach Freiheit.

The man who is set free is nothing but a freed man, a libertinus, a dog dragging a piece of chain with him: he is an unfree man in the garment of freedom, like the ass in the lion's skin.

Birdcage is a shame!

Birds are not free since Men have invented cages.

He who believes in the fate accepts the collar in his neck!

It is difficult to think outside the box because the thinking IS the box.

The detective story is the sonnet. It is precise, neat, satisfyingly symmetrical, constrained, but sustained, by the nicety of its form… The thriller is the ode. It has no formal rules at all. It has no precise framework. It has no top and, Heaven knows, no bottom.

These rules meant that, unlike Britain, the United States was able to pursue its Cold War spending in Asia and elsewhere in the world without constraint, as well as social welfare spending at home. This was just the reverse of Britain's stop–go policies or the austerity programs that the IMF imposed on Third World debtors when their balance of payments fell into deficit.

People who think they're free in this world just haven't come to the end of their leash yet.

The quality of experience of people who play with and transform the opportunities in their surroundings, as Joe did, is clearly more developed as well as more enjoyable than that of people who resign themselves to live within the constraints of the barren reality they feel they cannot alter.

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

But on the political front, the Golden Straitjacket narrows the political and economic policy choices of those in power to relatively tight parameters. . . .

If I choose to live a modest life, I'm a free man. If I'm forced to live a modest life, I'm a slave.