Restriction Quotes

“Restriction generates yearning. You want what you cannot have.”
― Portia de Rossi, Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain

“Most of us are naturally inclined to struggle against the restrictions our friends and family impose upon us, but if we are so unfortunate as to lose a loved one, what a difference then! Then the restriction becomes a sacred trust.”
― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

“We have learned to see the world in gasps.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“Fate, fortune, chance: all snares of life. You want to be, eh? There’s this catch: in abstract, you cannot just be. The being must be trapped in a form, and for some time it has to stay in it, here or there, this way or that. And everything, as long as it lasts, bears the penalty of its form, the penalty of being this way and no longer being able to be otherwise.”
― Luigi Pirandello, One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand

“Rebels revel in rewriting reality's restrictions.”
― Ryan Lilly

“Love without conditions, restrictions, or the expectation of being loved in return.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Shameful confession, one of my own Chelas (or so it is rather incredibly reported to me) said recently: "Self-discipline is a form of Restriction." (That, you remember, is "The word of Sin.") Of all the utter rubbish! (Anyhow, he was a "centre of pestilence" for discussing the Book at all.) About 90 percent of Thelema, at a guess, is nothing but self-discipline. One is only allowed to do anything and everything so as to have more scope for exercising that virtue.

Concentrate on "Thou hast no right but to do thy will." The point is that any possible act is to be performed if it is a necessary factor in that Equation of your Will. Any act that is not such a factor, however harmless, noble, virtuous or what not, is at the best a waste of energy. But there are no artificial barriers on any type of act in general. The standard of conduct has one single touchstone. There may be—there will be—every kind of difficulty in determining whether, by this standard, any given act is 'right' or 'wrong'; but there should be no confusion. No act is righteous in itself, but only in reference to the True Will of the person who proposes to perform it. This is the Doctrine of Relativity applied to the moral sphere.”
― Aleister Crowley, Magick Without Tears

“Being vegan isn't about restricting oneself in any way, it's simply about ceasing to take things which clearly are not ours.”
― Mango Wodzak, The Eden Fruitarian Guidebook

“Reading and writing dangerous books lets me be who I can't be and say what I can't say in everyday life.”
― Carla H. Krueger

“Often we don't notice the stringent rules to which our culture subjects us.”
― Sara Sheridan

“You start getting satisfied you stop getting better.”
― Sachin Kumar Puli

“To restrict oneself and somewhat settle under a particular sexual essence is to limit our expression and individual progress.”
― Nityananda Das, Divine Union

“I can't imagine why a media company views a law preventing the commission of hate speech as a restriction on media freedom, but it is probably similar to how some religious folk view hate speech as being essential to religious freedom.”
― Christina Engela, The Time Saving Agency

“Women the world over suffer restrictions.”
― Sara Sheridan, The Secret Mandarin

“Despite the restrictions, we are safe within (the Box). But – and here is the problem – once we identify something more, that awareness irrevocably changes our perceptions of the Box.”
― Heidi Reagan

“Islam doesn't ask you to cover your eyes, but to guard them.”
― Junaid Raza

“Diminishing returns is the outcome of restriction”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Or, to choose another example, we feel that freedom of speech is the last step in the march of victory of freedom. We forget that, although freedom of speech constitutes an important victory in the battle against old restraints, modern man is in a position where much of what "he" thinks and says are the things that everybody else thinks and says; that he has not acquired the ability to think originally—that is, for himself—which alone gives meaning to his claim that nobody can interfere with the expression of his thoughts. Again, we are proud that in his conduct of life man has become free from external authorities, which tell him what to do and what not to do. We neglect the role of the anonymous authorities like public opinion and "common sense," which are so powerful because of our profound readiness to conform to the expectations everybody has about ourselves and our equally profound fear of being different. In other words, we are fascinated by the growth of freedom from powers outside of ourselves and are blinded to the fact of inner restraints, compulsions, and fears, which tend to undermine the meaning of the victories freedom has won against its traditional enemies. We therefore are prone to think that the problem of freedom is exclusively that of gaining still more freedom of the kind we have gained in the course of modern history, and to believe that the defense of freedom against such powers that deny such freedom is all that is necessary. We forget that, although each of the liberties which have been won must be defended with utmost vigor, the problem of freedom is not only a quantitative one, but a qualitative one; that we not only have to preserve and increase the traditional freedom, but that we have to gain a new kind of freedom, one which enables us to realize our own individual self, to have faith in this self and in life.”
― Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom

“No one can restrict and stop another one that stays wasting its time for nothing, realizing that impossible matters remain consequently impossible.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“I switched from the surgical masks to the KN95 masks and found that I had an irritated and sore throat. I have stopped wearing them and have gone back to the surgical masks. I think the KN95 cause too much restriction in air flow and may damage the respiratory system with long term use.”
― Steven Magee

“The unjust, unfair, and illegitimate restriction is a track of victimization.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“You can restrict and prevent me, not history.”
― Ehsan Sehgal