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Quotes About Constraint

Once upon a time, Freedom and Necessity were identical; but now what is understood by freedom is in fact indiscipline.
~ Oswald Spengler
One day I got out "on the loose," as your slang phrases it; a reprehensible practice, no doubt, but one dear to dogs as to men, for better is a bare bone in the gutter, with the sweetness of free-will, than are fatted meats eaten within the curb and the gall of a chain.
~ Ouida
Los libros se hacen con lo que se tiene y no necesariamente con lo que se quiere.
~ Paco Ignacio Taibo II
The multinational corporations now developing budgets often bigger than medium-sized countries — these live in a global space which is largely unregulated, not subject to the rule of law, and in which people may act free of constraint.
~ Paddy Ashdown
Chains are chains even if made of gold, they just tie you.
~ Unknown
Es herrschte Lichtzwang
~ Paul Celan
Take eloquence and wring its neck.
~ Paul Verlaine
There are things in your life that you don't want to do that you will have to do. You cannot always do and go what and where you please. That is not how life works. This is one of those times when you must do and go what and where you do not want to do or go.
~ Peter Cameron
Man is born free and is everywhere in chains
~ Peter Carey