Quotes about Restriction

It is the fault of the orders, which are too rigid. There is no allowance for a change in circumstance.

Society has taught us to suppress certain things and not do certain things.

A human being in a highly technicized productive unit is simply not allowed to be spontaneous. It just interferes with the plan laid down in advance by the engineers and technicians who decide how he should word, and in this way he, the human being, is profoundly diminished, because he is not permitted to be spontaneous.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.

And I try to teach my heart not to want nothing it can't have.

Well, she got her daddy's carAnd she cruised through the hamburger stand nowSeems she forgot all about the libraryLike she told her old man nowAnd with the radio blasting goes cruisingJust as fast as she can nowAnd she'll have fun, fun, funTill her daddy takes the T-Bird away

Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed.

English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation.

Most discipline is hidden discipline, designed not to liberate but to limit. Do not ask Why? Be cautious with How? Why? leads inexorably to paradox. How? traps you in a universe of cause and effect. Both deny the infinite.

I believe that all people should be free to believe and worship as they please. I also believe that people should be free to act in ways that I consider ethically wrong. But there is at least one important restriction on this freedom that every just society must maintain. My religious and ethical freedom does not include the right to kill other people.

Man is not free unless government is limited.