#strict

I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them. ↗

— Ma Jian

#being #believe #chinese #chinese people #controlled

The restriction of religion to private life therefore does not necessarily threaten the vital interests of the majority religion, if there is one, and it protects minority religions from tyranny of the majority. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

#interests #life #majority #minority #necessarily

I was a prosecutor in Brooklyn in the homicide division and then as a senior assistant district attorney. ↗

— Star Jones

#attorney #brooklyn #district #district attorney #division

My idea in terms of managing a narrative, or in thinking in my creative life, is that you could easily argue that the past, the present and the future all occur simultaneously, and if you can postulate that, then you're not strictly bound to a linear narrative. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#bound #could #creative #creative life #easily

More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#future #hold #more #must #officials

Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things. ↗

— Val Kilmer

#deadlines #i #just #other #preoccupied

Many times I've gone on tours with Paul Anka. He would have someone sitting behind him to keep people from even talking to him. You were almost in a little restricted area there. ↗

— Ben E. King

#area #behind #even #gone #him

That means following a very restrictive fiscal and monetary policy which will squeeze the monopolies and cut their subsidies. On the micro level we will allow other economic agents, both domestic and foreign, to compete with them. ↗

— Vaclav Klaus

#allow #both #compete #cut #domestic

The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#convictions #his #human #human being #independent

Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#nonsensical #poem #poetic #probably #science