Restriction Quotes - Page 7

• The people = government doctrine is equivalent to political infantilism -- an agreement to pretend that the citizen's wishes animate each restriction or exaction inflicted upon him.

  James Bovard

  Government, Agreement, People

  James Bovard (2015). “Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen”, p.111, Macmillan

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• I believe art prefers rules. For some artists, the worst thing you can do is say 'Do whatever you want.' Such permission can be terrifying. I know it is for me. Often it's better if you impose rules or restrictions on a project. Requirements can force you to be creative in unusual ways.

  Lisa Mangum

  Art, Believe, Creative

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• Antigun advocates have always faced an uphill battle in this country. Americans have, to begin with, a constitutional right to gun ownership. Today, half of American households exercise this right, owning a total of about 250 million guns; and over 99 percent of those households do so in a responsible manner. To fight for major restrictions on an item that plays such a valued part in the lives of so many people looks like a nearly impossible task. So if you're really committed to the effort, and you want to win, what do you do? Simple: You lie.

  Dave Kopel

  Country, Lying, Fighting

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• For God to be kept out of the classroom or out of America's public debate by nervous school administrators or overcautious politicians serves no one's interests. That restriction prevents people from drawing on this country's rich and diverse religious heritage for guidance, and it degrades the nation's moral discourse by placing a whole realm of theological reasoning out of bounds. The price of that sort of quarantine, at a time of moral dislocation, is - and has been - far too high.

  Nancy Gibbs

  Christian, Country, Religious

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• A society based on Christian principles provides for pluralism, but with enough restrictions to prevent civilization from degenerating into chaos.

  Benjamin Hart

  Christian, Religious, Civilization

  Benjamin Hart (1988). “Faith & Freedom: The Christian Roots of American Liberty”

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• Anarchists are extreme libertarian socialists , "libertarian" meaning the demand for freedom from prohibition, and "socialist" meaning the demand for social equality . ...Complete freedom implies equality, since if there are rich and poor, the poor cannot be permitted to take liberties with riches. Complete equality implies freedom, since those who suffer restrictions cannot be the equals of those who impose them.

  Donald Rooum

  Suffering, Liberty, Demand

  Donald Rooum (2016). “What is Anarchism?: An Introduction”, p.25, PM Press

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• Any restrictions to freedom of expression will always open the door to possible others, because analogical reasoning can mount arguments showing why this or that class of objects is closely similar to those for which exceptions have been made.

  Randal Marlin

  Doors, Expression, Class

  Randal Marlin (2002). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion”, p.230, Broadview Press

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• I don't know what it is about the shower that generates creative thoughts. Maybe it's the hot water. Maybe it's being unencumbered even by the restriction of clothing.

  Lyle Lovett

  Water, Creative, Hot

  "Lyle Lovett: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 23, 2012.

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• Every culture, if its natural development is not too much affected by political restrictions, experiences a perpetual renewal of the formative urge, and out of that comes an ever growing diversity of creative activity. Every successful piece of work stirs the desire for greater perfection and deeper inspiration; each new form becomes the herald of new possibilities of development.

  Rudolf Rocker

  Inspiration, Successful, Diversity

  Rudolf Rocker (2004). “Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice”, p.17, AK Press

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• It is the restrictions placed on vice by our social code which makes its pursuit so peculiarly agreeable.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Vices, Social, Pursuit

  Kenneth Grahame (2016). “Pagan Papers”, p.22, The Floating Press

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• Discretion, like the hole in a doughnut, does not exist except as an area left open by a surrounding belt of restriction. It is therefore a relative concept. It always makes sense to ask, "Discretion under which standards?" or "Discretion as to which authority?

  Ronald Dworkin

  Doe, Authority, Holes

  Ronald Dworkin (2013). “Taking Rights Seriously”, p.48, A&C Black

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• There's no way to avoid a burden on your freedom. The costs themselves are a burden on your freedom. The restrictions that are necessary in order to get rid of the terrorists are a burden to your freedom. So there's no way in the short run to avoid a restriction on your freedom.

  Milton Friedman

  Running, Order, Cost

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• There is no way the American public will sit still for the banning of or putting any significant restrictions on the kinds of guns they want.

  James Q. Wilson

  Gun, Want, Way

  "No Easy Answers: An Interview with James Q. Wilson". Interview with William D. Eggers and John O'Leary, reason.com. February 1995.

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• The Obama-Clinton energy restrictions are a massive tax on the poor that disproportionately impacts communities of color. I will lift these restrictions, creating millions of jobs.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, Impact, Color

  "Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Discuss Student Debt, Immigration, and More". Interview with Judith Ohikuare, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 11, 2016.

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• Building on the public's unwillingness to act on principle in support of market solutions to apparent problems, whether real or imagined, these interest groups secure arbitrary restrictions on voluntary exchanges and, in the process, secure rents for their members while reducing both the liberties and economic well being of other members of the economic nexus, both domestically and internationally.

  James M. Buchanan

  Philosophy, Real, Political

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• This is not only a matter of relations between Russia and the United States. In my view, any restrictions in the economic sphere that are dictated by considerations of political expediency are extremely harmful for the world economy as a whole. This destroys unity and the rules of the game.

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, Views, Games

  Source: www.rt.com

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• This was life! Ah, how he loved it! Civilization held nothing like this in its narrow and circumscribed sphere, hemmed in by restrictions and conventionalities. Even clothes were a hindrance and a nuisance. At last he was free. He had not realized what a prisoner he had been.

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

  Civilization, Clothes, Nuisance

  Edgar Rice Burroughs (2013). “Tarzan Books 1 through 5”, eStar Books

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• I resolve never to make any resolutions because all resolutions are restrictions for the future. All resolutions are imprisonments.

  Rajneesh

  Resolution, Resolve, Miscellaneous

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• Government is, at every level, a means to gather in the labor and wealth of the people, and then instruct the people about new restrictions or monitoring of their lives.

  Jeff Baxter

  Mean, Government, People

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• I think maybe there could be some restrictions that there had to be a certain amount of training taken.

  Ronald Reagan

  Taken, Gun, Thinking

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• I sympathize the first, the direct and single-minded attack [Red Revolution]. I believe it to have been necessary and inevitable in Russia. It may someday be inevitable in this country [United States of America]. I am not seriously alarmed by the sufferings of the creditor class, the troubles which the church is bound to encounter, the restrictions on certain kinds of freedom which must result, nor even by the bloodshed of the transition period. A better economic order is worth a little bloodshed.

  Stuart Chase

  Country, Communication, Believe

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• Emergency does not increase granted power or remove or diminish the restrictions imposed upon power granted or reserved. The Constitution was adopted in a period of grave emergency. Its grants of power to the federal government and its limitations of the power of the States were determined in the light of emergency, and they are not altered by emergency.

  Charles Evans Hughes

  Light, Government, Liberty

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• The more laws and restrictions there are,
  The poorer people become.
  The sharper men's weapons,
  The more trouble in the land.

  Laozi

  Law, People, Liberty

  "Tao te ching".

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• The function of the true state is to impose the minimum restrictions and safeguard the maximum liberties of the people, and it never regards the person as a thing.

  Immanuel Kant

  Government, People, Liberty

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• Winner take all does not exist in the Constitution. It's a restriction imposed on the electors by the states.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Doe, Constitution, Winner

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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