Straitjacket Quotes
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The other day, someone told me the difference between a democracy and a people's democracy. It's the same difference between a jacket and a straitjacket.
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More Straitjacket Quotes
Science is a method for testing claims about the natural world, not an immutable compendium of absolute truths. The fundamentalists, by "knowing" the answers before they start, and then forcing nature into the straitjacket of their discredited preconceptions, lie outside the domain of science or of any honest intellectual inquiry.
stephen jay gould— "An Essay on a Pig Roast," p.437
Form is a straitjacket in the way that a straitjacket was a straitjacket for Houdini.
paul muldoon— The Irish Times, April 19, 2003.
"The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior. . . we shall not really succeed in discarding the straitjacket of our cultural beliefs about sexual choice if we fail to come to terms with the well-documented, normal human capacity to love members of both sexes."
Margaret Mead— Margaret Mead, Redbook (1975)
