Straitjacket Quotes

You are taught you are wrong, that you are bad. So you don't do anything, and you wrap yourself in a little straitjacket, and you put yourself in your little room. 'Don't do it! Don't look at someone, don't touch them, don't kiss them, don't do anything!' Then maybe it's OK. I mean, sure, that plagued me all through childhood, you know, in so many ways, and that's stuff that's hard to get away from. But you have to, and eventually, you know, you do. - T R Knight

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 may well ask, will be the end of all of this? I would not know! But I would hope that our beloved country will drink deep from the chalice of courage. - Douglas MacArthur

The difficulty for the Government is there's this ideological straitjacket of the market will provide, let the market rip and everything will work out... It's back to trickle-down economics, which, it's plain to see, have not delivered. - Frances O'Grady

Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear. - Karl Kraus

My initial reaction was that choreographing in the code of points is painting by numbers with a straitjacket on. But I'm getting used to it. - Lori Nichol

I've never looked back in my life. I don't want to see that stuff. I had blanked out a lot of stuff ... putting my mother in a straitjacket, my father holding her down, screaming. - Quincy Jones

I've been in this for 25 years, and I've never been so confused in my life. These skaters are great skaters. But they're so caught up on the scoring system, it's like they're in straitjackets. They can't be themselves. The art and beauty are gone. They don't have the freedom to express themselves. - David Pelletier

It was at a particular moment in the history of my own rages that I saw the Western world conditioned by the images of Marx, Darwin and Freud; and Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western world. The simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence. - William G. Golding

I'm told I had to be put in a straitjacket for the first five days because I was so violent, which is a reflection of having really damaged your brain. - Dick Button

If Britain's railways are to play a future role in meeting our transport needs in the foreseeable future, they must be freed from their regulatory straitjacket. - Iain Murray