Unnecessary Restrictions Quotes

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.

This modern mania for interfering in other's lives, usually under the guise of health and safety concerns, is highly irritating and counterproductive. Down with the nanny state.

The least practicable measure of government must be the best. Anything beyond the minimum must be oppression.

Men should not be forced to wear pants when it's not cold.

Sometimes I think people live in a parallel universe when they say all we need are a few more regulations.

What most surprises me about Brazil is the extent of the difficulties that we create for ourselves. We create a lot of legislation to control the Brazilian state itself, that this ends up meaning that things don't go with the speed any head of government would like.

There are enough high hurdles to climb, as one travels through life, without having to scale artificial barriers created by law or silly regulations.

It's so tedious that everyone must be defined.

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

When those of us in the words-making world use the term 'overregulation,' we are mostly putting a name to a concept we rarely experience consciously.

Who indeed, after pulling off the coloured glasses of prejudice and thrusting out of sight his pet projects, can help seeing the folly of these endeavours to protect men against themselves? A sad population of imbeciles would our schemers fill the world with, could their plans last.

Over time, we amass limiting beliefs about how life supposedly is - beliefs that are not valid. Then we allow these limiting beliefs to stop us from fully living our happiest lives.