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Quotes About Cages

Hate cages all the good things about you.
~ Terri Guillemets
the lady is a wonder daughter of the thunder smashing cages legislating rages with the voice of ages singing us through.
~ James Baldwin
Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.
~ Spiro T. Agnew
The first time I saw adult chimpanzees in these five-by-five foot cages... tears began to trickle down under my mask, and [JoJo, a chimp,] just reached out this gentle finger and wiped them away... And then the veterinarian came. He knelt down beside me and put his arm around me. He said, I have to face this every day.
~ Jane Goodall
Cletus Busters, the custodian, trudged in, tugging behind him his cart full of brooms and mops and the bags of trash he had collected as he made his way from room to room. He parked the cart by the door and, with an air of innocence, wandered around the lab without any apparent objective in mind. "Hello, little rat," he whispered, brushing the front of one of the metal cages with his fingers.
~ Unknown
They'll reenter their lives' cages, where love's tiger sometimes rages, but the beast's too tame to bite.   We'll
~ Wis?awa Szymborska
While I was gone Hugh, Manuela, and Dario attended Franck's surprise fortieth-birthday party. One of the guests was a sophisticated mother of three who announced that she hated the zoo at the Jardin des Plantes because it was cruel to keep the animals in such small cages. She went on and on and then, at the end of the evening, she unlocked her car and released her golden retriever, who'd spent the last six hours in the trunk.
~ David Sedaris
I think that now that we are seeing multimedia types of productions with videos and pictures and human beings performing the acts that animals used to perform, such as in Cirque du Soleil and other traveling troops, there is no need to parade animals around anymore in cages for personal gratification.
~ Montel Williams
They're nice cages," I responded. "No space around them. Nothing alive. Places like this turn a man into a gerbil. He comes home and scurries inside. Then he stays there until he's forced to go back out to the job he has to work so that he can make the mortgage payments on this gerbil habitat.
~ Jim Butcher
The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
~ Virginia Woolf
The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
~ Virginia Woolf
In his eyes, as in the eyes of all Forsytes, the pleasure of seeing these beautiful creatures in a state of captivity far outweighed the inconvenience of imprisonment to beasts whom God had so improvidently placed in a state of freedom! It was for the animals' good, removing them at once from the countless dangers of open air and exercise. Indeed, it was doubtful what wild animals were made for but tobe shut up in cages! The Man of Property, p. 191
~ John Galsworthy
Being calm, no matter how complicated life may be, is a virtue and a wall that cages the monkey, many times hurt, scared, within us, inside.
~ Unknown
Ye have locked yerselves up in cages of fear and, behold, do ye now complain that ye lack FREEDOM!
~ Robert Anton Wilson
Humans are born free then put into cages, then convinced freedom is what being in a cage is, and what freedom is, is being in a cage.
~ Craig Stone
knew about chicken factories. I knew about the lightless cages, the clipped beaks, the overhead drizzle of shit, the poison-laced corn and soy shoved down their gullets, the farmers bullied into serfdom. I knew about growth hormones and preservatives and artificial flavors, the obscene categorization of body type by cooking method: fryer, broiler, roaster.
~ Unknown
It [marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Like cages full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit. Therefore they have become powerful and rich.
~ Jeremiah 5:27