#inhibit

Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

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When I do comedy, I lose all inhibition and introspection. I no longer care. ↗

— Jessica Alba

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Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be. ↗

— John Fowles

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Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions. ↗

— David Bailey

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The only principle that does not inhibit progress is: anything goes. ↗

— Paul Feyerabend

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Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature. ↗

— Adrian Cronauer

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I have no inhibitions about smoking or drinking, but I think too much of my voice to place it in jeopardy. I have spent many good years in training and cultivating it, and I would be foolish to do anything which might impair or ruin it. ↗

— Jeanette MacDonald

#anything #cultivating #drinking #foolish #good

I made, over the years in Cambridge, several very good American friends, and America appeared to me, a land of promise in every sense of that word, a land of freedom from the inhibitions and restrictions that I felt in England. ↗

— Peter Shaffer

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No evil can result from its inhibition more pernicious than its toleration. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

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Press conference [on the movie Carrington] yielded the usual crop of daftness. I've been asked if I related personally to Carrington's tortured relationship with sex and replied that no, not really, I'd had a very pleasant time since I was fifteen. This elicited very disapproving copy from the Brits ... No wonder people think we don't have sex in England. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#dora-carrington #expectations #identification #inhibitions #morality