Unjustified Restrictions Quotes

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

It would be as wise to set up an accomplished lawyer to saw wood as a business as to condemn an educated and sensible woman to spend all her time boiling potatoes and patching old garments. Yet this is the lot of many, a one who incessantly stitches and boils and bakes, compelled to thrust back out of sight the aspirations which fill her soul.

The big print giveth, and the fine print taketh away.

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.

A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection.

The World Is Too Much Governed

There is no such thing as wise regulation of a generally acknowledged evil.

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws

But there is no obvious reason for holding that some normal adults are entitled to make choices for other normal adults, as paternalists of both left and right believe.

I'm not for censorship without reason.

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.

Over-commercialization and its resulting restrictions and limitations can be very damaging and distorting to the inherent nature of the individual. I did not deliberately abandon my fans, nor did I deliberately abandon any responsibilities.

The patent office decided that genes can be patented. This is a fundamental error that looks more and more absurd over time…. Gene patenting is completely contrary to the public interest.

Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.

Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money.

Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.