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Quotes about Restriction

a person who thinks should not try to persuade others to his belief; that is what puts him on the road to a system; on the lamentable road of the man of conviction; politicians like to call themselves that; but what is a conviction? It is a thought that has come to a stop, that has congealed, and the man of conviction is a man restricted.
- Milan Kundera
You're going to turn it into a fascist corporate theme park where the few people who can still afford the price of admission no longer have an ounce of freedom.
- Ernest Cline
The weapon had a built-in timer that would prevent it from firing for another twelve hours (a "cooling-off period") (...).
- Ernest Cline
Totalitarianism always starts with restrictions on the rights of others. We must avoid this at all costs. George Washington even said, "If the freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
- Ben Carson
Sometimes regulations hinder and need to be broken or ignored.
- Ben Carson
When you begin to feel lifeless in Him, look for the tourniquet that's cutting off the life flow. Most often we'll find it in earthly ties that are cinched too tightly.
- Beth Moore
What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
- Henry David Thoreau
The masses will reject any theory, however reasonable it may be, if it lays a restriction upon the appetite.
- Ellen White
To use infinite agency to close a gap is to rob it of its infinite character.
- Rowan Williams
Those walls and bars are there for a reason,' said Crake. ' Not to keep us out, but to keep them in. Mankind needs barriers in both cases
- Margaret Atwood
don't dare do anything anymore, 'cause I'm afraid it's not allowed.
- Anne Frank
Conformity is that jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
- John F. Kennedy