Social Constraint Quotes

To say that a thing has never yet been done among men is to erect a barrier stronger than reason, stronger than discussion.

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

Humans were free before the word freedom became necessary.

But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.

There are no woman composers, never have been and possibly never will be.

I feel like guys don't want to stop me no more.

Women have no wilderness in them They are provident instead Content in the tight hot cell of their hearts To eat dusty bread.

Feminism has exceeded its proper mission of seeking political equality for women and has ended by rejecting contingency, that is, human limitation by nature or fate.

In the 1970s, girls didn't do anything. It wasn't their fault. For me and the other working-class girls I hung around with, our route was plotted - you were a secretary and a wife. I wanted to hitchhike around the world, go on motorbikes, be in bands.

Because I don't believe music can be free unless it has something to be free from.

Where I grew up - we started out in Oklahoma and then moved to Missouri - it was considered hubris to talk about yourself. And the downside of that was that ideas rarely got exchanged, or true feelings.

You can't always be friendly. It's impossible, there isn't the time.

I still have this image: I can't be controversial, I can't say things.

Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom.

While you are alone you are entirely your own master and if you have one companion you are but half your own, and the less so in proportion to the indiscretion of his behavior.

Your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom.

We had an ancient Russian acting coach at my drama school who said the worst offense you could commit was to let your subtext show. That is the point of acting, is to be saying one thing and not be allowed by society or your predicament to show what you're really feeling. In a way, I think that's why the therapy generation has killed script writing, because all you ever get is people going, "Hi, I'm feeling really angry right now."

...much of what was said did not matter, and that much of what mattered could not be said.

Where is the society that does not struggle along under the dead weight of tradition and law inherited from its grandfathers.

Religion stands, the Church blocking the sun.

One cannot live in society and be free from society.

I must not say what I truly think, or you will tell me I flatter you-but I can only speak what I feel-and very often I cannot even do that when the feeling is very deep.

[Finishing schools] are nicely adapted machines for experimenting on the question, "Into how little space a human being can be crushed?" I have seen some souls so compressed that they would have fitted into a small thimble, and found room to move . . .

Today, I see that many of our citizens are not free. They are dependent.

Marriage is a plastic flower - marriage is an institution. And who wants to live in an institution?