Quotes for All
Anarchists generally make use if the word State to mean all the collection of institutions, political, legislative, judicial, military, financial, etc., by means of which management of their own affairs, the guidance of their personal conduct, and the care of ensuring their own safety are taken from the people and confided to certain individuals, and … Read more
The photograph contains and constrains within its own boundaries, excluding all else, a microcosmic analogue of the framing of space which is knowledge. As such it becomes a metaphor of power, having the ability to appropriate and decontextualize time and space and those who exist within it. Elizabeth Edwards
We need open minds and open hearts when we wrestle with the past and ask questions of it, and the answers it will provide are in nobody’s pocket… We should let nobody tell us that they know all that it contains, or try to prescribe or constrain in advance what it has to tell us. … Read more
A sublime soul can rise to all kinds of greatness, but by an effort; it can tear itself from all bondage, to all that limits and constrains it, but only by strength of will. Consequently the sublime soul is only free by broken efforts. Friedrich Schiller
An obligation is something which constrains or induces us to act. Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey
God says This is what I would love you to be, but I am not going to constrain you. I want it to be your choice. And it is a fantastic thing because even at the moment when I am making the choice to reject God, I would depend from moment to moment, you know … Read more
When dams were erected on the Columbia, salmon battered themselves against the concrete, trying to return home. I expect no less from us. We too must hurl ourselves against and through the literal and metaphorical concrete that contains and constrains us, that keeps us from talking about what is most important to us, that keeps … Read more
Nixon tried to wrap the Soviet Union into a web of agreements that would constrain its behavior. What happened is that many people lost faith in that approach, not the least because of how the Soviets handled it. David Hoffman
Attachment constrains our vision so that we are not able to see things from a wider perspective. Dalai Lama
To be human, at the most profound level, is to encounter honestly the inescapable circumstances that constrain us, yet muster the courage to struggle compassionately for our own unique individualities and for more democratic and free societies. Cornel West