Quotes About Confinement

I enjoy room service.

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!

I can paint in jail.

I hate nothing more than having my nails painted. I feel like I'm in time out.

It is important to always remember that at any time you think of it there are people being kept in buildings when they want to go outside.

There is now, in my mouth, this sharp chain. And it never comes out.

The mind was a trap--it was a cage that slammed down over you.

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our one duty is to furnish it well.

But then I remembered: the universe was closed, and so very small. There was really nowhere else to go.

Don't feel too bad. Everyone's in chains here. Eriophora's a slave ship. We cavemen are shackled by our need for air and food and water, by the disorienting discontinuity of lives cut into slices spread centuries apart. The Chimp is shackled by its own stupidity, And you, well...

His clothes fit him so ill, and constrain him so much, that he seems rather their prisoner than their proprietor.

Hon är själv fånge i sitt eget fängelse.

How foolishly we all bound ourselves into the very chains that could destroy us.

On a ship, everything is enclosed: the people are right on top of each other and can't get up and walk away.

they saw how well behaved I was, and decided it meant I could only behave well in the environment of a psychiatric hospital and it proved I was mad." I

Tony said just being here can be enough to turn someone crazy.

him under house arrest was in his head. Hearing

Find a printer paper and imagine a full-grown bird shaped something like a football with legs standing on it. Imagine 33,000 of these rectangles in a grid. (Broilers are never in cages, and never on multiple levels.) Now enclose the grid with windowless walls and put a ceiling on top. Run in automated (drug-laced) feed, water, heating, and ventilation systems. This is a farm.

She felt as if she were brimming, always producing and hoarding more love inside her. But there was no release.

La gabbia standard per ovaiole concede a ogni gallina una superficie di 4,32 decimetri quadrati, grande come questo rettangolo. Quasi tutte quelle non allevate in gabbia hanno a disposizione all'incirca la stessa superficie

Those who defend pig factory farms argue that the farrowing crate is necessary because sows can sometimes accidentally crush their piglets. In the same way that the risk of a forest fire can be reduced by preemptively clearing the forest of all its trees, there is a cockeyed logic to this claim. The farrowing crate, like the gestation crate, confines the mother in a space so small she cannot turn around. Sometimes she will also be strapped to the floor.

I likewise felt several slender ligatures across my body, from my arm-pits to my thighs. I could only look upwards; the sun began to grow hot, and the light offended my eyes. I heard a confused noise about me; but in the posture I lay, could see nothing except the sky.

The emperor of Lilliput, attended by several of the nobility, comes to see the author in his confinement. The emperor's person and habit described. Learned men appointed to teach the author their language. He gains favour by his mild disposition. His pockets are searched, and his sword and pistols taken from him.

The chains that held my left leg were about two yards long, and gave me not only the liberty of walking backwards and forwards in a semicircle, but, being fixed within four inches of the gate, allowed me to creep in, and lie at my full length in the temple.