Quotes about Inhibition

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane. Respect rather than fear. There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions, who will do anything. Of course we make him pay afterward for his moment of superiority, his moment of impressiveness.

But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires.

This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

We've reached a point where people are actually afraid to talk about what they want to say, because somebody might be offended. We've got to get over this sensitivity and it keeps people from saying what they really believe.

Most people stop learning out of fear. They are afraid they cannot learn.

I went for years not finishing anything because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged.

I wonder what kind of person would come out if I ever did erase all my inhibitions at once, what kind of being is bottled up inside me now.

The mask was a thing on it's own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.

The fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) has censored far more good ideas than bad ones.