Straitjacket Quotes

24 quotes by 23 authors

For [Richard] Feynman, the essence of the scientific imagination was a powerful and almost painful rule. What scientists create must match reality. It must match… — James Gleick
Neo-Darwinian language and conceptual structure itself ensures scientific failure: Major questions posed by zoologists cannot be answered from inside the neo-Darwinian straitjacket. Such questions include,… — Lynn Margulis
I cannot agree with those who think of the Bill of Rights as an 18th century straitjacket, unsuited for this age...The evils it guards against… — Hugo Black
Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear. — Karl Kraus
Form is a straitjacket in the way that a straitjacket was a straitjacket for Houdini, — Paul Muldoon
The Constitution was not made to fit us like a straitjacket. In its elasticity lies its chief greatness. — Woodrow Wilson
Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware. — Arthur Koestler
Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of expression is dead… — Rudolf Rocker
Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of expression is dead… — Rudolf Rocker
We are bound no longer by the straitjacket of the past and nowhere is the change greater than in our profession of arms. What, you… — Douglas MacArthur
The other day, someone told me the difference between a democracy and a people's democracy. It's the same difference between a jacket and a straitjacket. — Ronald Reagan
Music is my therapy and my straitjacket. Music keeps me sane and keeps my mind on something. It's fragile up there. — will.i.am
Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a… — William Golding
Power has for so long been a male construct that it distorted the shape of the first women who tried it on, only to find… — Stacy Schiff
i never thought of it before, but with your height and build, you are going to look SO CUTE in your straitjacket. — Michele Jaffe
Bones glanced behind me, with just the barest inclination of his head. I walked away from him, muttering, "Don't worry, you don't need to have… — Jeaniene Frost
but all I could think was in New York that kid would have been stuck in a straitjacket practically from birth and dangled over a… — Meg Rosoff
The fundamentalists, by 'knowing' the answers before they start, and then forcing nature into the straitjacket of their discredited preconceptions, lie outside the domain of… — Stephen Jay Gould
Multiculturalism may well be our saviour, wresting us out from the straitjacket of our history, thrusting the old continent into an environment where other ethnicities,… — Loretta Napoleoni
The average human being spends three years of life going to the toilet, though the average human being with no physical toilet to go to… — Rose George

Who Wrote These Straitjacket Quotes

23 authors contributed a total of 24 Straitjacket Quotes as follows: