Quotes about Restriction

This room is not well adapted as a cell, and Mr. Patrick Cairns occupies too large a portion of our carpet.

The laws say that men may not write unless the Council of Vocations bid them so. May we be forgiven!

I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible.

Monasticism was represented as an individual achievement which the mass of the laity could not be expected to emulate. By thus limiting the application of the commandments of Jesus to a restricted group of specialists.

It's pretty physically unsettling, living life on a visa.

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.

I've never had to make weight for any sport before. Because, get this, I was not allowed to do any sports in school because I was a professional athlete. I was doing wrestling at the age of 15, so the school districts and the board of directors said that because I was a professional athlete that I couldn't do anything.

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.