Quotes About Confinement

bodies becoming like prisons with the person stuck inside. Screaming, or not screaming, but staring at you like you should do something.

We are all in lockdown, all the time. We just don't know it, that's all.

Sitting there, watching the shades of evening settle slowly on the drab little town, it seemed to me that nothing but blind blundering vengeance, howsoever camouflaged, awaits all those who dare to step out of its stifling confines. It is a confrontation whose outcome is as certain as the end of solitary boats beating against a maelstrom.

That was one of the things that always happened to me after long periods of solitary confinement: i would forget how to talk.

One of the worst cases is that of ASSATA SHAKUR, who spent over twenty months in solitary confinement in two separate men's prisons subject to conditions totally unbefitting any prisoner.

After ten days, i was discharged from the hospital over the objections of my doctor, brought to the middlesex county jail for men, and kept in solitary confinement from February 1974 until May 1974.

They lock you in the hole and they don't let you out until you consent to be searched internally.

The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it.

The prison was very important - as everywhere on earth. Everywhere the building of a prison is the first step in the organization of a civilized state.

We shan't ever be free again

We're rapidly approaching a world comprised entirely of jail and shopping.

When I was in New York it was like a maze, a rat maze, going from one little box to another little box and passing through passageways to get from one safe haven to another.

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.

If the Court were to extend its reach to the base, judges could begin managing conditions of confinement, interrogation methods, and the use of information.

I realised that I couldn't live in a box. It was not for me.

The day-to-day discomforts of prison life, combined with the big-picture realities of mass incarceration, do not add up to a party.

In reality, however, the poet has given concrete form to a very general psychological theme, namely, that there will always be more things in a closed, than in an open, box. To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.

I'm sick and tired of having a forest and a torture chamber in my house... I want to have a nice quiet flat with ordinary doors and windows and a wife inside it, like anybody else!

Most people don't want what they want: people love to be prevented, restricted. The hamster not only loves his cage, he'd be lost without it.

Aos amantes apresento esta questão: quem o mais desditoso, Arcita ou Palamon? Este avistava a amada todo dia, mas não podia abandonar o cárcere; aquele tinha toda a liberdade, mas nunca mais veria o seu amor.

The one who merely flees is not yet free. In fleeing he is still conditioned by that from which he flees.

The younger had always worn a yoke; but is there any yoked creature without its private opinions?

There was no delivering himself from his cage, however;

Me naiset emme voi lähteä seikkailemaan - etsimään luoteisväylää tai Niilin lähteitä, tai itään metsästämään tiikereitä. Meidän täytyy pysyä siellä missä kasvamme, tai minne puutarhurit meidät haluavat siirtää. Meidät kasvatetaan kuin kukat: näytämme niin sieviltä kuin voimme, emmekä valita, vaikka pitkästyisimme. (Daniel Deronda s. 152-153)