Constrain Quotes

• Anarchists generally make use if the word "State" to mean all the collection of institutions, political, legislative, judicial, military, financial, etc., by means of which management of their own affairs, the guidance of their personal conduct, and the care of ensuring their own safety are taken from the people and confided to certain individuals, and these, whether by usurpation or delegation, are invested with the right to make laws over and for all, and to constrain the public to respect them, making use of the collective force of the community to this end.

  Errico Malatesta

  Military, Taken, Mean

  "Anarchy". Pamphlet by Errico Malatesta, www.marxists.org. 1891.

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• It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.

  Galileo Galilei

  Answers, Vex, Scripture

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• There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

  Ronald Reagan

  Wall, Mind, Progress

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• I see myself as someone who makes things. Definitions have never done anything but constrain.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Done, Definitions

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• War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

  George Washington

  War, 4th Of July, Enemy

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• Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity.

  Robert Evans

  Depressing, Creativity, Principles

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• Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dirty, Men, Atheism

  'Walden' (1854) 'The Village'

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• If your souls were not immortal, and you in danger of losing them, I would not thus speak unto you; but the love of your souls constrains me to speak: methinks this would constrain me to speak unto you forever.

  George Whitefield

  Forever, Soul, Losing

  George Whitefield, G. B. (1829). “The Revived Puritan. Select Works of ... G. W., ... Containing a Memoir of His Life, Etc. [Edited by G. B.]”, p.227

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• Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.

  Confucius

  Revenge, Blessing, Boredom

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• Profound commitment to a dream does not confine or constrain: it liberates.
  Even a difficult, winding path can lead to your goal if you follow it to the end.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Commitment, Profound

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• The moral sentiments that constrain economic life also promote it.

  Ted Malloch

  Moral, Economic, Sentiments

  "Doing Virtuous Business: The Remarkable Success of Spiritual Enterprise". Book by Ted Malloch, 2011.

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• The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one

  Igor Stravinsky

  Freedom, Precision, Constraints

  Igor Stravinsky (1970). “Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons”, p.65, Harvard University Press

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• If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters.

  Brigham Young

  Education, Daughter, Mother

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• The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Self, Execution, Precision

  Igor Stravinsky (1970). “Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons”, p.65, Harvard University Press

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• The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.

  John Updike

  Firsts, Adultery, Constraints

  Couples ch. 5 (1968)

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• People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.

  Raoul Vaneigem

  Love, Positive, Struggle

  Guy Debord, Ivan Chtcheglov, Asger Jorn, Raoul Vaneigem, Mustapha Khayati (2014). “Situationism: A Compendium”, p.102, Bread and Circuses Publishing

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• Necessities can be many, but the one that is stronger is that which constrains you to win or to die.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Winning

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• We know God easily, if we do not constrain ourselves to define him.

  Joseph Joubert

  God, Knows, Ifs

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• Attachment constrains our vision so that we are not able to see things from a wider perspective.

  Dalai Lama

  Attachment, Perspective, Vision

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• You can live constrained within the confines of a solely material perspective, or choose instead the infinite field of quantum possibility.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Perspective, Fields

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Apr 09, 2013

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• The love shown in Christ by our God to mankind should constrain all of us who are followers and disciples of Christ to do all in our power to see to it that the Message of Salvation is carried to those of our fellows for whom Christ Our Saviour was sacrificed but who have not had the benefit of hearing the good news.

  Haile Selassie

  Hearing, Messages, News

  Haile Selassie's Address to the World Evangelical Congress in Berlin, October 28, 1966.

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• People define gay cinema solely by content: if there are gay characters in it, it’s a gay film... Heterosexuality to me is a structure as much as it is a content. It is an imposed structure that goes along with the patriarchal, dominant structure that constrains and defines society. If homosexuality is the opposite or the counter-sexual activity to that, then what kind of a structure would it be?

  Todd Haynes

  Character, Gay, Thinking

  "What’s Happening to ‘Queer’ Cinema in the LGBT Film Boom?" by E. Alex Jung, www.vulture.com. May 16, 2018.

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• To be human, at the most profound level, is to encounter honestly the inescapable circumstances that constrain us, yet muster the courage to struggle compassionately for our own unique individualities and for more democratic and free societies.

  Cornel West

  Struggle, Unique, Profound

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• Through developing trusting and respectful relationships with the boys in our lives, we can help boys to value and acknowledge their relational capabilities, which they may otherwise learn to discount or overlook. We can also offer and model for them definitions of maturity, masculinity, health and success that will enable them to remain grounded in their self-knowledge (e.g. as they encounter societal pressures to conform to group and cultural norms), and to form relationships that will sustain rather than constrain them.

  Judy Chu

  Maturity, Boys, Self

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• Fortitude. ... It means fixity of purpose. It means endurance. It means having the strength to live with what constrains you.

  Hilary Mantel

  Mean, Endurance, Purpose

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