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Quotes about Restriction

To the size of the state there is a limit, as there is to plants, animals and implements, for none of these retain their facility when they are too large.
— Aristotle
The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.
— Edith Wharton
he wonders whether young women raised under such restrictive conditions can ever overcome the disadvantage of deliberately engineered lacunae in their mental, moral, and emotional development. The
— Edith Wharton
By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right implies also a duty one must not conceal any part of what on has recognized to be true. It is evident that any restriction on academic freedom acts in such a way as to hamper the dissemination of knowledge among the people and thereby impedes national judgment and action.
— Albert Einstein
I know that some believe that voluntary prayer in schools should be restricted to a moment of silence. We already have the right to remain silent - we can take our Fifth Amendment.
— Ronald Reagan
I'm kosher except for times where I eat pork and shellfish.
— Roseanne Barr
I wasn't allowed to go to movies when I was kid my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it.
— Denzel Washington
On prohibiting anybody from learning anything: Why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.
— Will Rogers
Propertied persons typically have large estates and freedom of movement through the society. At the same time, the property of the rich has the effect of crowding and confining the less propertied. The very poor are typically restricted to narrow geographical limits and are regarded as aliens outside them.
— James Carse
There are two basic restrictions on marriage in the Bible: Number one, she should marry a man. Number two, he should be a Christian.
— John Piper
Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
— Erica Jong
Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.
— Will Rogers