#restrict

I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them. ↗

— Ma Jian

#being #believe #chinese #chinese people #controlled

The restriction of religion to private life therefore does not necessarily threaten the vital interests of the majority religion, if there is one, and it protects minority religions from tyranny of the majority. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

#interests #life #majority #minority #necessarily

That means following a very restrictive fiscal and monetary policy which will squeeze the monopolies and cut their subsidies. On the micro level we will allow other economic agents, both domestic and foreign, to compete with them. ↗

— Vaclav Klaus

#allow #both #compete #cut #domestic

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

#babies #canada #child #even #got

We like to think of film and music as art, but actually art is something that is not restricted. ↗

— Ahmed Best

#art #film #like #music #restricted

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

— David Blaine

#capacity #each #imposed #minds #only

Lovers and warriors are not bound by the rules of fair play. ↗

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

#love #lovers #restrictions #romance #rules

As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democracies and republics until the twentieth century. ↗

— Robert A. Dahl

#athens #century #democracies #just #later

Jerry often says that Slam Bradley was really the forerunner of Superman, because we turned it out with no restrictions, complete freedom to do what we wanted; the only problem was that we had a deadline. ↗

— Joe Shuster

#bradley #complete #complete freedom #deadline #forerunner

We shouldn't feel restricted by our sexuality, and our sexuality doesn't have to be a cultural choice. That's an amazing variety of music within those five main performers. ↗

— Neil Tennant

#choice #cultural #feel #five #main