Careless Quote by Norm MacDonald

the most important thing one can do for children is not accept the limitations they are so willing to impose on themselves.

— Ruth Simmons

It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.

— Seneca the Younger

All limitations are self-imposed.

— Ernest Holmes

Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit.

— Frank Herbert

The joy of youth is to disobey; but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.

— Jean Cocteau

I have never believed that my limitations were in any sense punishments or accidents. If I had held such a view, I could never…

— Helen Keller

Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.

— Thomas Szasz

The only limitations are those which we impose upon ourselves.

— Jacque Fresco

Parents must not only have certain ways of guiding by prohibition and permission, they must also be able to represent to the child a…

— Erik Erikson

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

— Joseph Addison

Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish

— Thomas Fuller

Forcing yourself to use restricted means is the sort of restraint that liberates invention. It obliges you to make a kind of progress that…

— Pablo Picasso