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  • It has become obligatory to fulfil a function which shall in some way be regarded as useful to the masses...Even an articulated mass always tends to become unspiritual and inhuman. It is life without existence, superstition without faith. It may stamp all flat; it is disinclined to tolerate independence and greatness, but prone to constrain people to become as automatic as ants.

  • When dams were erected on the Columbia, salmon battered themselves against the concrete, trying to return home. I expect no less from us. We too must hurl ourselves against and through the literal and metaphorical concrete that contains and constrains us, that keeps us from talking about what is most important to us, that keeps us from living the way our bones know we can, that bars us from our home. It only takes one person to bring down a dam.

    Derrick Jensen (2004). “A Language Older Than Words”, p.75, Chelsea Green Publishing
  • I didn't intend to write about totems or people searching. I tried not to constrain myself, and this is what I ended up with. There's this great Auden quote: "I look at what I write so I can see what I think."

    Interview with Joshua Wolf Shenk, www.motherjones.com. May 2005.
  • The photograph contains and constrains within its own boundaries, excluding all else, a microcosmic analogue of the framing of space which is knowledge. As such it becomes a metaphor of power, having the ability to appropriate and decontextualize time and space and those who exist within it.

  • There are two kinds of geniuses. The characteristic of the one is roaring, but the lightning is meagre and rarely strikes; the other kind is characterized by reflection by which it constrains itself or restrains the roaring. But the lightning is all the more intense; with the speed and sureness of lightning it hits the selected particular points - and is fatal.

  • There's nothing within science per se that says medical researchers must not experiment on human subjects; it is the imposition of ethical dogma that constrains the scientist.

    Medical   Dogma   Ethical  
    Jonah Goldberg (2012). “The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas”, p.63, Penguin
  • Were I to personify Justice, instead of presenting her blind, I would denominate her the goddess of fire. . . Of unbending integrity Justice should feel, hear and see; but truth alone should be the polar star by which she should shape her movements, and equity only should constrain her determinations.

    Judith Sargent Murray (1992). “The gleaner”, Syracuse Univ Pr
  • The moral sentiments that constrain economic life also promote it.

    "Doing Virtuous Business: The Remarkable Success of Spiritual Enterprise". Book by Ted Malloch, 2011.
  • If the authorities constrain banks and are aware of the activities of fringe banks and other financial institutions, they are in a better position to attenuate the disruptive expansionary tendencies of our economy.

  • To be human, at the most profound level, is to encounter honestly the inescapable circumstances that constrain us, yet muster the courage to struggle compassionately for our own unique individualities and for more democratic and free societies.

  • You can live constrained within the confines of a solely material perspective, or choose instead the infinite field of quantum possibility.

    FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Apr 09, 2013
  • Others may try to feed our ego, but it is up to us to constrain it.

    Life   Ego   Trying  
  • We need open minds and open hearts when we wrestle with the past and ask questions of it, and the answers it will provide are in nobody's pocket... We should let nobody tell us that they know all that it contains, or try to prescribe or constrain in advance what it has to tell us.

    Heart   Past   History  
    Eamon Duffy (2006). “Faith of Our Fathers”, p.186, A&C Black
  • Lord, how great is our dilemma! In Thy Presence silence best becomes us, yet love inflames our hearts and constrains us to speak.

    Heart   Silence   Speak  
    Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.9, Fig
  • It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade. The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future.

    "Taking Hard New Look at a Greenspan Legacy" by Peter S. Goodman, www.nytimes.com. October 8, 2008.
  • Keep in mind that imagination is at the heart of all innovation. Crush or constrain it and the fun will vanish.

    Crush   Fun   Heart  
    Albert-Laszlo Barabasi (2010). “Bursts: The Hidden Patterns Behind Everything We Do, from Your E-mail to Bloody Crusades”, p.21, Penguin
  • Nixon tried to wrap the Soviet Union into a web of agreements that would constrain its behavior. What happened is that many people lost faith in that approach, not the least because of how the Soviets handled it.

    Source: www.washingtonpost.com
  • Walking and overcoming by faith is not easy. For one thing, the dimension of time constantly constrains our perspective. Likewise, the world steadily tempts us. No wonder we are given instructive words from Jesus about the narrowness and the straightness of the only path available to return home: “I am the way, the truth, and the life” (John 14:6). And then he said, “No man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” Jesus laid down strict conditions.

    Jesus   Father   Home  
  • Contrary to popular belief, we do not face a choice between economy and ecology, It is often said that protecting the environment would constrain or even undermine economic growth. In fact, the opposite is true: unless we protect resources and the earth's natural capital, we shall not be able to sustain economic growth.

  • If I am to constrain you by any law, it must be one by which I am also bound.

    Law   Constrain   Ifs  
  • It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.

    Answers   Vex   Scripture  
  • But when you are embodied in a location, in a physical plant, in a set of people, and in a common history, that constrains your evolution and your ability to evolve in certain directions.

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

  • The love shown in Christ by our God to mankind should constrain all of us who are followers and disciples of Christ to do all in our power to see to it that the Message of Salvation is carried to those of our fellows for whom Christ Our Saviour was sacrificed but who have not had the benefit of hearing the good news.

    Hearing   Messages   News  
    Haile Selassie's Address to the World Evangelical Congress in Berlin, October 28, 1966.
  • We can be hindered in our development and our personal growth by political conditions. Outer circumstances can constrain us. Only when we are free to develop our innate abilities can we live as free beings. But we are just as much determined by inner potential and outer opportunities as the Stone Age boy on the Rhine, the lion in Africa, or the apple tree in the garden.

  • Neither fear nor self-interest can convert the soul. They may change the appearance, perhaps even the conduct, but never the object of supreme desire... Fear is the motive which constrains the slave; greed binds the selfish man, by which he is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed (James 1:14). But neither fear nor self-interest is undefiled, nor can they convert the soul. Only charity can convert the soul, freeing it from unworthy motives.

    Fear   Selfish   Men  
  • The delightful study of the Psalms has yielded me boundless profit and ever-growing pleasure; common gratitude constrains me to communicate to others a portion of the benefit, with the prayer that it may induce them to search further for themselves.

    Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1870). “The Treasury of David: Spurgeon's Classic Work on the Psalms”, p.12, Kregel Academic
  • There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

    Wall   Mind   Progress  
    United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”
  • The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.

    Couples ch. 5 (1968)
  • Soloing is the most beautiful way of climbing; no material constrains, just you and the rock, the sun, nature; a kind of school for courage, willpower and self-confidence.

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