Restrictive Policies Quotes

The whole principle [of censorship] is wrong. It's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't have steak.

I think the Right has made a serious mistake in adopting a moral-values strategy, because they’re winning in the short run. But in the long run, they’re going to lose this debate because they won’t be able to restrict it to two issues (abortion & gay marriage). Once you open that door to a values conversation, it’s going to undercut a right-wing economic agenda, which values wealth over work and favors the rich over the poor, or resorts to war as the first resort and not the last.

I'm not a big believer in our copyright laws; I find them way too restrictive.

Making America great again, as if to keep the world out. The world and all its fresh ideas and everything that's new and exhilarating and the wind of change that should blow through the world - block it out, wall ourselves up. That for me goes with a small vocabulary. A narrow, confining vocabulary.

I see the FCC responding to an already repressive society and raw censorship is the result.

America is the most inventive country in the world. Why? Because everybody has access to information. In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them.

Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.

China and the U.S. are two societies with very different attitudes towards opinion and criticism. In China, I am constantly under surveillance. Even my slightest, most innocuous move can - and often is - censored by Chinese authorities.

Whenever regulation increases, personal freedom decreases.

Jews can build in New York, Moscow and Paris, but in our own land, we can't build? That's nuts.

Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.

China's censorship and propaganda systems may be complex and multilayered, but they are obviously not well coordinated.

The worst crime of any type of state is just that it always tries to force the rich diversity of social life into definite forms and adjust it to one particular form

It is a campaign not for abundance but for austerity. It is a campaign not for more freedom but for less. Strangest of all, it is a campaign not just against other people, but against ourselves.

There should be restriction on migration. Some people may criticize me for that. But the future generations will see the merit in my argument.

A closed country is a dying country.

Every system which endeavors, either, by extraordinary encouragements, to draw towards a particular species of industry a greater share of the capital of the society than what would naturally go to it; or, by extraordinary restraints, to force from a particular species of industry some share of the capital which would otherwise be employed in it; is in reality subversive of the great purpose which it means to promote.

If they let people go fight jiu-jitsu tournaments, they can't stop me going to fight a boxing fight.

If Singapore is a nanny state, then I am proud to have fostered one.

Many legitimate forms of ownership, mainly cooperative and communal, had not been used to any effective extent mainly because of the imposition of Stalinist restrictions.

If there's a party and they won't let my friends in, I'd leave. No question.

No Western nation has to build a wall round itself to keep its people in.

If you drive a car, I'll tax the street; if you try to sit, I'll tax your seat; if you get too cold, I'll tax the heat; if you take a walk, I'll tax your feet.

The NFL, and I've played a lot of years for them, and they have a lot of restrictions on their players, they have restrictions on their licensees, they have restrictions on everything.

Gandhi protested against restrictive policies. So did 'Guru.'