Constraints Quotes

They won't let me ... I can't be ... good!

[Rose from "Fences"] couldn't just jump out there. Not just because of economic reasons but because how she was looked at in society at the time. There were a lot of factors that made you stay I guess.

From the first day I joined that family, nothing could be done naturally any more.

Tie two birds together. They will not be able to fly, even though they now have four wings.

Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist while still achieving milestones and outcomes as required by certain funders and policy-makers.

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.

Given that some social processes must convey inherent constraints, the choice is among various mixtures of persuasion, force, and cultural inducement. The less of one, the more of theothers. The degree of freedom that is possible is therefore tied to the extent to which people respond to persuasion or inducement.

I may have had many projects, but I never was free to carry out any of them.

Birds never sing in caves.

I am free to make anything I want as long as I think it will sell.

If you cannot be free be as free as you can.

The demands of unbounded individualism need to be weighed in the light of inherent social constraints which can only change their form but cannot be eliminated without eliminating civilization.

The most basic inherent constraint is that neither time nor wisdom are free goods available in unlimited quantity. This means that in social processes, as in economic processes, it is not only impossible to attain perfection but irrational to seek perfection- or even to seek the best possible result in each separate instance.