Quotes about Restriction

What numbers us imprisons us.

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

Imagine going to book a flight and the agent politely pauses, looks up at you, and says that you are blacklisted. Your "social credit" score shows that you have been doing some things that don't sit well with the government. You are being punished, and part of the punishment is that you can't travel out of the country to visit relatives in America. You're shocked. You haven't even gotten a traffic ticket before. "There must be some mistake,

Skewered through and through with office pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.

When Jesus came preaching the kingdom of God, He came preaching God's right to rule over the minds and hearts of all people. But that is precisely what the people involved did not want. Adam did not want it. He had great freedom, but he was offended by God's unreasonable and arbitrary (so he judged) restriction in the case of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

The work under our labour grows, luxurious by restraint.

Language fits over experience like a straight jacket.

Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black.

Oamenii isi pot cumpara masini de orice culoare poftesc, numai sa fie neagra!

I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.

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.

Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like the one which is about to take place here are sublime, but suicide is restricted, and does not allow of extension; and so soon as it affects your neighbors, suicide becomes murder.