Quotes About Confinement

Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty.

Todos nosotros —prosiguió el Interventor, meditabundo— vivimos en el interior de un frasco. Mas para los Alfas, los frascos, relativamente hablando, son enormes. Nosotros sufriríamos horriblemente si fuésemos confinados en un espacio más estrecho. No se puede verter sucedáneo de champaña de las clases altas en los frascos de las castas bajas.

He's right: They have to put madmen with madmen.

She would not trade one set of walls for another.

How boring these emotions are that we're caught in and can't get free of, no matter how much we want to...

If these walls started talking, the entire Island would be put under quarantine while the government moved in an army of psychiatrists.

My capacity for happiness ... you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first.

There are prisons within prisons, and skins within skins. You can't always see who someone is just by looking in his eyes. Sometimes, others are there.

The easiest way for you to make sense of this is to imagine that you're a two-dimensional being. A being flatter than the flattest pancake, living on the surface of a giant, empty, plastic box. As a 2D being, you can only see the surface of the

Well, you know what they say: everything seems to take longer when you're crammed inside a footlocker.

have to say, I was a little pissed off that you escaped from the Codon." Desh kept his face passive and didn't respond. "You know you cost

holding cell Brad and Tessa were in,

3 Una mente "aprisionada" no es libre porque está poseída, o refrenada, por sí misma.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all.

The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.

You don't care if I'm guilty or not. You gonna make sure I go to jail for life.

Honest men in prison know that there is no such thing as "brainwashing" or "breaking." These expressions of self-delusion never find use behind bars. They are just unfortunate metaphors that allow people outside prison to be less uncomfortable in discussing human limitations.

Insulated from natural contacts with earth, air and sunlight, by corsets pressing on the solar plexus, by voluminous petticoats, cotton stockings and kid boots, the drowsy well-fed girls lounging in the shade were no more a part of their environment than figures in a photograph album, arbitrarily posed against a backcloth of cork rocks and cardboard trees.

Maybe she feared there were different ways of being trapped than the ones she already knew.

When life is a cell, there is nothing more liberating than captivity.

From the time she was born, she had been hemmed into an ever-narrowing space, until now she was very nearly walled in and the wall had been built up brick by brick by eager white hands.

Some people hate the smell of hospitals. I hate the smell of jails and prisons, all the same: stale cigarette smoke, Pine-Sol, urine, sweat, and dust.