People accept their limitations so as to prevent themselves from wanting anything they might get. - Celia Green

It is actually a principle of modern paternalism that if you want something you should be stopped from having it[…] Most foods are harmful to some people if taken in excess, and I expect the only reason that carrots are still available without a prescription is that no one has got very excited about them, or claimed that they might cure cancer.

The remarkable thing about the human mind is its range of limitations.

In an autocracy, one person has his way; in an aristocracy a few people have their way; in a democracy, no one has his way.