Restrictions Quotes

• Abortion restrictions 'reduce pregnant women to no more than fetal containers.'

  

  Dawn Johnsen
  • Abortion
  • Pregnant
  • Containers

• When I'm making an American film, it's more safe because there are so many people on the set to watch me. Whatever I do, they say, 'What are you doing!? Tell me first!' There are so many restrictions.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • People
  • Film
  • Safe

• The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization, though then, it is true, it had for the most part no value, since the individual was scarcely in a position to defend it. The development of civilization imposes restrictions on it, and justice demands that no one shall escape those restrictions.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Civilization
  • Restrictions
  • Jstice

• 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
  • Function
  • Restrictions
  • True State

• Civilization has imposed countless restrictions and conventions on each of us, with the result that the subconscious in the majority of us has become a storage room without a key. We are forced to suppress or forget so many events and ideas and thoughts that those to which we should have access are lost in the welter. However, there are people who seem capable of unlocking this part of their minds and extracting relevant information.

  

  Margaret Millar
  • People
  • Lost
  • Thoughts

• I believe in the power of great art to transcend geographical boundaries, political differences and even the restrictions of time.

  

  Armand Hammer
  • Time
  • Great
  • Believe

• I think men have always been afraid of women's sexuality, and the restrictions they put on women testify to that.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Men
  • Women
  • Sexuality

• Dining and marriage restrictions stunt Hindu society.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Society
  • Marriage
  • Restrictions

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

  

  Norbert Wiener
  • Progress
  • Possibilities
  • Restrictions

• In this instance of the fire-arms, the Asiatic has been most improperly bracketed with the native. The British Indian does not need any such restrictions as are imposed by the Bill on the natives regarding the carrying of fire-arms. The prominent race can remain so by preventing the native from arming himself. Is there a slightest vestige of justification for so preventing the British Indian?

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Arms
  • Justification
  • British Indian

• It is a tragedy that religion for us means, today, nothing more than restrictions on food and drink, nothing more than adherence to absence of superiority and inferiority.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Religion
  • Tragedy
  • Restrictions

• I had a very free childhood and ranged around on my bicycle the way boys do. I had few restrictions.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • Free
  • Childhood
  • Bicycle

• Imprudent restrictions often force youth farther than enticement would carry them; and careless limitation is frequently worse than no injunction.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Limitation
  • Restrictions
  • Injunction

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

  

  Lao Tzu
  • People
  • Weapons
  • Restrictions

• Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. And yet, we have imposed upon people restrictions on what they can say, on what they can think. And the media is the largest proponent of this, crucifying people who say things really quite innocently.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Media
  • Pillars
  • Freedom Of Speech

• The EU will be able to carry out the whole range of (these) tasks by 2003, albeit with possible restrictions in terms of scale and deployment time and perhaps a higher level of risk.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Risk
  • Tasks
  • Carry Out

• In the late '80s, the U.S.S.R. loosened its restrictions on immigration. When the government was like, 'Y'all wanna bounce?' my family, along with tens of thousands of other Jews ran for the door in an attempt to make a better life in America.

  

  Milana Vayntrub
  • Attempt
  • Thousands
  • Bounce

• Moral restrictions tend to become lax in a foreign country, since the fear of social opinion disappears.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Fear
  • Restrictions
  • Social Opinion

• A cartoonist's style is created by weaknesses and personal restrictions as much as strengths.

  

  Barry Blitt
  • Weaknesses
  • Restrictions
  • Cartoonist

• Me, personally, I don’t want any restrictions. But I’m not a doctor or a trainer, so I’ve just got to listen to them.

  

  Zion Williamson
  • Listen
  • Restrictions
  • Trainer

• You can't live your life to suit other people. The harder you try, the more restrictions they'll put on you just for the fun of seeing you jump through their hoops.

  

  Judith McNaught
  • Try
  • Suit
  • Restrictions

• I've always been making up my own restrictions for myself, from day one, and it's compelling, because it forces me to think. That's always been a driving force for me.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Force
  • Restrictions
  • Thinkk

• Qmail out of the box works fine, so people will want to use it regardless of licensing restrictions, even when the software does not ship with their system software.

  

  Wietse Venema
  • People
  • System
  • Software

• The purity of Jewish upbringing - the restrictions that one carries through life being a 'nice Jewish girl' - what a burden.

  

  Lauren Bacall
  • Burden
  • Jewish
  • Restrictions

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