Quotes About Confinement

We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom

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.

As wild as I was, when the cops show up, and suddenly you're being handcuffed, it's so deeply shocking and terrifying, the loss of freedom.

I should have known the power-hungry slave drivers at River's Edge would see my five days of freedom only as a challenge to be filled.

Secret thoughts are only half free: they fly undisturbed in the skies of the inner freedom, but they can never leave them.

The military world is characterized by the absence of freedom - in other words, a rigorous discipline-enforced inactivity, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery and drunkenness.

How can a bird that is born for joySit in a cage and sing?

My occupation now, I suppose, is jail inmate.

Be careful when building walls to protect yourself. Those same walls may cage you in.

E strâmt aici, dar ai unde s?-?i pierzi min?ile.

E strâmt aici, dar ai unde s?-?i pierzi min?ile.

E strâmt aici, dar ai unde s?-i pierzi min?ile. Nu e prea greu. - E chiar o nimica toat?.

Am închis citatul De câte ori închid citatul, Simt în mine Nu ?tiu ce secret? jubila?ie De poli?ist: L-am închis ?i pe-?sta, Mama lui de porc!

Hay muchas formas de morir. Vivir escondido es una de ellas.

The solid line throughout was my trying to make space to fly and forever smashing my wings against the bars of the cage. Granted, the cage grew bigger and very big, but I was always beyond the collective in my soul and always cut back by the collective in my body.

Lo que me pase a mí no me importa. ¿O usted cree que después de la vida que llevé me va a asustar estar en una cárcel, con otras infelices como yo?" Juana fue condenada a nueve años de prisión.

But what we find is that flight becomes captivity: once we begin to flee the things that threaten and burden us, there is no end to fleeing.

We are trapped in the jaws of something shaking the life out of us." With these words from his historical novel, Philadelphia Fire, John Edgar Wideman conveys a sense of what it means to be caught out on stage, vulnerable at the point of having one's life taken, shaken out, by what I have term "the theatrics of state terror." Wideman's

Michel Foucault reminds us that in societies that organize massively to incarcerate its citizens "there is no outside" for anyone.

Time's agency becomes most vicious when it is routinized for the practical effect of control. The routinizaton of time is a transformation cultivated by prison authorities and designed to make every day like every other. In this experience, paradoxically, time acts even to deaden one's sense of time. All the more true is this among the 80,000, likely more,[52] who are serving time in solitary confinement. Lisa

The shift of the mentally ill into prisons, from previous treatment in psychiatric institutions (already inadequate in many ways) is just one example of this social care through penal confinement at work in the U.S.A. today.

As UCLA historian Sarah Haley notes, in earlier periods when the numbers of the confined were "only" in the tens of thousands, the prisons still concentrated, "massified," the lives of targeted groups, particularly African Americans in post-slavery U.S.A.

The very concept of long-term confinement, a constitutive element of mass incarceration in the U.S., is made worse by overcrowded and inhumane conditions, and has been analyzed and criticized as torture.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also prison.