Quotes About Confinement

February 19, 1942, is the year in which Executive Order 9066 was signed, and this was the order that called for the exclusion and internment of all Japanese Americans living on the west coast during World War II.

I've always been interested in invisible worlds, and I like to visit digital worlds, you know, any world that's imposed on us.

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it's the worst kind of hell for those who love you.

Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without charge, under torture, which is what solitary confinement is.

Airports and 'leg room' on planes are a form of medieval torture.

Unfunny people should be locked up, the key tossed into a smelter.

but creatures so long kennelled and confined find freedom and release very problematic attainments

Prison was better organised than a supermarket, with a larger selection of items and more customer-friendly opening hours. Including Sundays and public holidays

my mother put me in the box and made it very clear that her love was conditional upon my remaining in the box.

Fucked Up Set up Faced up Jacked up Sitting there in chokey 14 years old No lock on the door But no way out No joking No hoping No nothing Pinned Down.

Why did everyone else seem fine but I felt as if I were living in a cage I'd outgrown two shoe sizes ago?

I'd thought I wanted to live free of my mundane little cage, but the world outside was feeling more and more hazardous.

Felix can't act his way out of a box." "Boxes are tricky," Felix said, frowning. "And sometimes they're taped shut.

A person isn't a bird. You can't cage a person.

I don't know if you have ever experienced the suffocating confinement of others' expectations on your life, but it is a very difficult burden to bear.

She couldn't get past him. After another minute, she screamed, "You'll never take me alive! I'll never let you get me to a secondary location!

Childhood is the one prison from which there's no escape, the one sentence from which there's no appeal. We all serve our time.

Time is a measure of space, just as a range-finder is a measure of space, but measuring locks us into the place we measure.

There are too many years around this table, too much time confined in one place.

Most people spend less time outside than prisoners.

Like the archangel who aspired to omnipotence, I am chained in an eternal hell.

Factory farming isn't just killing: It is a negation, a complete denial of the animal as a living being with his or her own needs and nature ... It confronts us with the animal equivalent of Abraham Lincoln's condemnation of human slavery: 'If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.

If this animal is to be protected, why not that identical one, too? If it is cruelty to confine or mistreat a dog, a cat, or even a pet lamb or pig, why is it not cruelty to confine and mistreat millions of equally sensitive animals at Smithfield, IBP, ConAngra, and other such places? When we speak of the unavoidable severity of livestock production or laboratory experiments or trapping, and so on, just how rigorously are we defining unavoidable?