Literary notes about restriction (AI summary)
The word "restriction" is deployed in literature to denote limitations ranging from practical legal constraints and economic impositions to internal, psychological, and philosophical boundaries. In some contexts it refers to governmental or statutory limits, as when immigration laws or market regulations are critiqued for their artificial barriers [1], [2]. Other writings use the term to describe self-imposed or socially constructed limits—such as the confinement of thought beyond observable phenomena or the personal chains that inhibit freedom, evoking comparisons to the physical discomfort of a tightening collar [3], [4]. At times, restriction emerges as a narrative device to set the stage for rebellion or transformation, whether in the form of dramatic legislative controls or subtle, individual defiance [5], [6]. Overall, authors use "restriction" to explore the tension between freedom and limitation, reflecting both the external impositions on society and the internal struggles of personal expression [7], [8].
- By early statute [55] restriction was placed on the importation of slaves, and from the first they began to be emancipated.
— from The Blue-Grass Region of Kentucky, and Other Kentucky Articles by James Lane Allen - Any further restriction I do not conceive to be, in principle, justifiable.
— from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill - Also, his love of freedom chafed against the restriction in much the same way his neck chafed against the starched fetter of a collar.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London - The restriction of thinking to what goes beyond direct observation Reflective thought aims, however, at belief II.
— from How We Think by John Dewey - That minister seemed to be possessed with something, hardly short Page 403 of a rage, for regulation and restriction.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke - But it is not difficult to account, either for this restriction on the general government, or for the manner in which the whole clause is expressed.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton and John Jay and James Madison - If, however, we neglect this restriction of the idea to a purely regulative influence, reason is betrayed into numerous errors.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant - Nobody but mere merchants could be admitted; a restriction which excluded all shop-keepers and retailers.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
