Restriction Quotes

• If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.

  Emma Goldman

  Love, Stress, Giving

  Emma Goldman, Candace Falk (2008). “Emma Goldman”, p.184, University of Illinois Press

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• In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds.

  David Blaine

  Mind, Capacity

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The word of Sin is Restriction

  Aleister Crowley

  Sin

  Aleister Crowley “The Equinox Vol. 3. No. 1.”, Lulu.com

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• Restriction generates yearning. You want what you cannot have.

  Portia de Rossi

  Want, Yearning

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• The universe has no restrictions. You place restrictions on the universe with your expectations.

  Deepak Chopra

  Inspirational, Life, Expectations

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• A lot of great creativity comes from restrictions.

  Giles Duley

  Creativity

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• Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.

  William O. Douglas

  Teaching, Rights In America, Political Revolution

  "The One Un-American Act". William O. Douglas' speech to the Author's Guild Council in New York on receiving the 1951 Lauterbach Award, December 3, 1952.

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• The restriction of knowledge to an elite group destroys the spirit of the society and leads to its intellectual impoverishment.

  Albert Einstein

  Intellectual, Groups, Spirit

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• Thoughts, words, ideas and information, free from any bonds or restrictions, is the very concrete which pours out a foundation strong enough that upon which a house, stable and lasting, of true freedom and liberty may be built.

  Derek R. Audette

  Strong, Ideas, House

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• Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom.

  Wayne Thiebaud

  Discipline, Aids

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• The more restrictions you have, the easier anything is to write.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Writing, Easier

  "Maestro of Broadway". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. July 05, 2005.

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• The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.

  Willa Cather

  Art, Freedom, Matter

  Willa Cather (1988). “Willa Cather on Writing: Critical Studies on Writing as an Art”, p.26, U of Nebraska Press

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• Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.

  Norbert Wiener

  Future, Math, Progress

  Norbert Wiener (1988). “The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society”, p.46, Da Capo Press

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• Working against a restriction - for me - often produces greater things than getting rid of all boundaries.

  Jon Lord

  Boundaries, Produce, Greater Things

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• A person who doesn't breathe deeply reduces the life of his body. If he doesn't move freely, he restricts the life of his body. If he doesn't feel fully, he narrows the life of his body. And if his self-expression is constricted, he limits the life of his body.

  Alexander Lowen

  Life, Freedom, Moving

  Alexander Lowen (1994). “Bioenergetics”, Penguin Group USA

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• Can one talk about the ocean to a frog in a well or about the divine to people who are restricted by their concepts?

  Anthony de Mello

  Spiritual, Religious, Ocean

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.105, Image

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• Beware thoughts that come in the night.

  William Least Heat-Moon

  Night

  William Least Heat-Moon (2014). “Writing BLUE HIGHWAYS: The Story of How a Book Happened”, p.30, University of Missouri Press

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• In the absence of sound oversight,responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions on activities that might harm the environment, or take advantage of middle-class families, or threaten to bring down the entire financial system.

  Barack Obama

  Responsible Business, Class, Environmental

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• Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.

  Val Kilmer

  Deadline

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• Poverty is restriction and as such, it is the greatest injustice you can perpetrate upon yourself.

  Stuart Wilde

  Spiritual, Poverty, Injustice

  Stuart Wilde (1998). “The Trick to Money is Having Some”, p.1, Hay House, Inc

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• If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift.

  Seneca the Younger

  Wisdom, Should, Communicate

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• The whole basis of the Constitution was a restriction of power, and the whole basis of the federalist system was that there was not one sovereign centralized power from which all authority flows.

  Roy Moore

  Flow, Sovereign, Constitution

  "Defender of the Decalogue". Interview with Thomas R. Eddlem, www.thenewamerican.com. December 16, 2002.

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• Licences to have babies incidentally is something that I got in trouble for some years ago for suggesting even in Canada that this might be necessary at some point, at least some restriction on the right to have a child.

  Maurice Strong

  Baby, Children, Years

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• Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Men, World

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Sane Society Ils 252”, p.64, Routledge

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• The intoxication of power rapidly sobers off in the knowledge of its restrictions and under the prompt reminder of an ever-present and not always considerate press, as well as the kindly suggestions that not infrequently come from Congress.

  William Howard Taft

  Presidential, Suggestions, Congress

  Speech to the Lotus Club, November 16, 1912.

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