#Constraint Quotes

“We are the prisoners of ideas.”

“I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.”

“Such expression is impossible in a cramped atmosphere. As I have no desire to offer civil disobedience I cannot write freely. As the author of satyagraha I cannot, consistently with my profession, suppress the vital part of myself for the sake of being able to write on permissible subjects. ... It would be like dealing with the trunk without the head.”

“I have on my table a violin string. It is free to move in any direction I like. If I twist one end, it responds; it is free. But it is not free to sing. So I take it and fix it into my violin. I bind it and when it is bound, it is free for the first time to sing.”

“It is an unfortunate discovery certainly, that of a law which binds us where we did not know before that we were bound.”

“A wise man does nothing by constraint.”

“These four, however, seek the freedom of their will at the very point where they are most securely chained. It is as if the silkworm sought freedom of will in spinning. What is the reason?”

“What do you fear, lady?' he asked. 'A cage,' she said.”

“My feelings, gratitude, for instance, are denied me simply because of my social position.”

“I don't want to be a prisoner in a palace, living in such a constricted way - too tight!”