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«People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.»
Author: Raoul Vaneigem
| Keywords:
class struggle, constraints, corpse, everyday life, explicitly, referring, refusal, subversive
«There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.»
Author: Ronald Reagan
(President)
| Keywords:
barriers, constraints, erect, erecting, erects, human mind, progress, walls
«If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters.»
Author: Brigham Young
(President)
| About:
Education,
Mothers
| Keywords:
constraints, daughters, educate, educating, My Sons, sons
«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 the others. The degree of freedom that is possible is therefore tied to the extent to which people respond to persuasion or inducement.»
Author: Thomas Sowell
(Economist, Writer)
| Keywords:
constraints, cultural, degrees of freedom, degree of freedom, Freedom of Choice, inducement, inducements, mixtures, One The, processes, social process, tied
«The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed: / Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind; / Neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being ensamples to the flock.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
constraint, constraints, elder, exhort, exhorted, exhorting, filthy, lords, lucre, Old Glory, oversight, partaker, sufferings
«In America a woman loses her independence for ever in the bonds of matrimony. While there is less constraint on girls there than anywhere else, a wife submits to stricter obligations. For the former, her father's house is a home of freedom and pleasure; for the latter, her husband's is almost a cloister.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
cloister, cloistered, constraint, constraints, obligations, stricter, submits
«Democracy is less a system of government than it is a system to keep government limited, unintrusive; a system of constraints on power to keep politics and government secondary to the important things in life, the true sources of value found only in»
Author: Ronald Reagan
(President)
| About:
Democracy
| Keywords:
constraints, of value, power politics, secondary, sources, system of government, unintrusive
«The man of affectation may, perhaps, be reclaimed, by finding how little he is likely to gain by perpetual constraint and incessant vigilance, and how much more securely he might make his way to esteem, by cultivating real, than by displaying counter»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
affectation, constraint, constraints, displaying, reclaim, reclaimed, reclaiming, reclaims, securely
«Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.»
«All constraint, / Except what wisdom lays on evil men, / Is evil.»
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