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 mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.
Quotes about straitjacket (10 Quotes)
The fundamentalists, by 'knowing' the answers before they start (examining evolution), and then forcing nature into the straitjacket of their discredited preconceptions, lie outside the domain of science-or of any honest intellectual inquiry.
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.
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.
Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.
Economic and fiscal decisions should be for the benefit of the country, and not simply determined by some bureaucrat in Brussels. The parameters we operate in shouldnt be a straitjacket we need room to manoeuvre for today and tomorrow.
Everyone I've talked to involved in any form of state, county or local government is opposed because they know this would put a straitjacket on government.
Hasty Pudding is no small potatoes (sorry to mix the food references), known for its famous alumni and much-hyped annual awards ceremonies. One year Mel Gibson recited Hamlet and escaped from a straitjacket. Tom Cruise has strutted in a bra and stilettos. This year Sarah Jessica Parker gets the prize. A recent ... episode was about money woes. I wonder if there will be any jokes about dough this time
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.
I think if we're to re-establish (the Congress') constitutional role, to control the purse strings, we've got to say that when it comes to local control versus a Washington straitjacket, the people of the United States want the education decisions made in the local school districts, not in the White House.