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#1

“یحدث أحیاناً أن نلتقي بأشخاص نجھلھم تمام الجھل ومع ذلك نشعر باھتمام بھم وبدافع یقربنا منھم قبل أن نبادلھم كلمھ واحدة”
― فيودور دوستويفسكي

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#2

“The AIDS pandemic forced humans to cover their genitals with condoms. The COVID-19 pandemic is forcing them to put on masks. It is as if many people weren’t already going through life putting on a million masks and changing them based on convenience and self-interest. It is as if countless humans on this planet weren’t already forced to keep their mouths shut and endure the misfortunes imposed on them by the ‘fortunate’ few. I wonder which body part we will be forced to cover next. I wonder if, in the first place, all of this is happening because our eyes were covered all along. Are we heading to a time when staying safe becomes akin to a death sentence with stay of execution?”
― Louis Yako

tags: aids, covid-19, curfew, human-condition, pandemic, quarantine, restrictions, suffering

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#3

“The reserves of emotion pent up during those many months when for everybody the flame of life burned low were being recklessly squandered to celebrate this, the red-letter day of their survival. Tomorrow real life would begin again, with its restrictions. But for the moment people in very different walks of life were rubbing shoulders, fraternizing. The leveling-out that death’s imminence had failed in practice to accomplish was realized at last, for a few gay hours, in the rapture of escape.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague

tags: celebration, covid, pandemic, plague, restrictions

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#4

“the given language is power because it compels me to use already formulated stereotypes, including words themselves, and that it is structured so fatally that, slaves inside it, we cannot free ourselves outside it, because outside the given language there is nothing.

How can we escape what Barthes calls, Sartre-like, this huis clos? By cheating. You can cheat the given language. This dishonest and healthy and liberating trick is called literature.”
― Umberto Eco, Travels in Hyperreality

tags: imprisonment, language, literature, power, restrictions, systems

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#5

“In a world of infinite choices, choosing one thing is the revolutionary act. Imposing that restriction is actually liberating.”
― Priya Parker, The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters

tags: choice, freedom, gathering, restrictions

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#6

“Can we BAN rapes & killings Like ECIGARETTES”
― Talees Rizvi, 21 Day Target and Achievement Planner

tags: killing, rape, restrictions

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#7

“It is the restrictions that decides what can be tolerated and it is the tolerance that decides what can be strict”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

tags: restrictions, tolerance, tolerance-level, tolerance-quotes

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#8

“The OCSD has been chipping away at our freedoms for most of our lives, all in the name of safety. But over-controlling something doesn't necessarily make it safer or better, even though people don't realize it. They believe the OCSD protects them and has their best interests at heart, but most of the OCSD's policies do more harm than good.”
― Tracy Lawson, Counteract

tags: dystopia, nanny-state, police-state, restrictions, terrorist-attacks

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#9

“The ritual of rules and restrictions is just being yourself, forsooth in the zestful way possible”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

tags: being-yourself, being-yourself-quotes, restrictions, ritual, rules-for-life

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#10

“I don't want them to think that we dress like savages,' she replied, with a scorn that Pocahontas might have resented; and he was struck again by the religious reverence of even the most unworldly American women for the social advantages of dress.

'It's their armour,' he thought, 'their defence against the unknown, and their defiance of it.' And he understood for the first time the earnestness with which May, who was incapable of tying a ribbon in her hair to charm him, had gone through the solemn rite of selecting and ordering her extensive wardrobe.”
― Edith Wharton

tags: armor, attire, clothing, dress, expectations, inequality, restrictions, society, style, women

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#11

“That we may accept a limitation on our actions but never, under no circumstances, must we accept restriction on our thinking.”
― Chinua Achebe, Anthills of the Savannah

tags: actions, limitations, restrictions, thinking

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#12

“Our wings were clipped, our restrictions were made, our boundaries were tested but now we are free, aren’t we?
We look above in the sky at the birds and hope to be free. But the birds make their nests in the trees high above, to protect themselves from predators. Free birds must keep looking over their shoulders the same way all of us have to”
― Jennifer Gilmour, Clipped Wings: Hear some stories of survival

tags: artistic, birds, domestic-abuse, domestic-violence, free, freedom, metaphor, restrictions, sky

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#13

“What we define ourselves us can sometimes bring forth the best images of ourselves--or vice versa, will create some of the worst restrictions we place on our lives.”
― Andrew Kendall, The Dark Dictionary: A Guide to Help Eradicate Your Darkness, Restore Your Light, and Redefine Your Life.

tags: best, create, creation, define, definition, identity, life, ourselves, restrictions, the-dark-dictionary, vice-versa, what, worst

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#14

“I'm not sure how much easier it is for a mother to balance her life now - have we simply swapped one set of restrictions for another?”
― Sara Sheridan

tags: balance, feminism, life, mothers, restrictions, time

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