Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Rules should not be barriers; they should be guides.

Very few things are off-limits for me.

Don't have rules, taboos, or limits.

Nature is what you may do. There is much you may not do.

For some reason, my whole life has been, 'You can't do this, you can't do that.'

The important thing for me when I look at characters is to consider the kind of constraints placed upon them. Now, me personally, I don't like to have a lot of constraints placed upon me.

Limits are very important.

When I was on the radio, I used to be able to go a lot farther than I can now. You don't really remember until you're on the radio again, sometimes in your old radio station and sitting with the guys you used to work with and you go, 'Oh yeah, I can't say these things anymore. I'm handcuffed.'

I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.

No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.

A lot of great creativity comes from restrictions.

A kite needs to be tied down in order to fly. I learned how important restrictions can sometimes be in order to experience freedom.

We hear many persuasive voices demanding freedom from restrictions, particularly from moral restraints. However, we learn from the history of the earth that any successful society has had boundaries.

I'm not allowed to be as liberal as I would like to be, you know? I'd do a lot more damage if I could!

In the end, I think you really only get as far as you're allowed to get.

Liberty is the absence of impediments—barriers.

Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.

My creativity thrives with limitations.

Any business situation is restrictive.

More than ambition, more than ability, it is rules that limit contribution; rules are the lowest common denominator of human behavior. They are a substitute for rational thought.

I think constraints are very important. They're positive, because they allow you to work off something.

Fences are made for those who cannot fly.

I think maybe there could be some restrictions that there had to be a certain amount of training taken.

More and more I'm aware that the permutations are not unlimited.

We all move uneasily within our restraints.