There is about as much educational benefit to be gained in studying dolphins in captivity as there would be studying mankind by… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without charge, under torture, which is what solitary confinement is. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“I used to capture the vastness and the immensity of the world and confine it to the limited pages of the parchment.” — Hark Herald Sarmiento Copy Share Image
“Being locked up is one thing, but to have no concept of confinement, to be ignorant of its terms and never understand… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
There is an aura of changelessness to sport. There is the flux of competition, but it occurs within the ordering confinement of… — George Will Copy Share Image
Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set… — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
The writing life is essentially one of solitary confinement - if you can't deal with this, you needn't apply. — Will Self Copy Share Image
The Holy Spirit showed me that when I put up walls to keep others out I also wall myself into solitary place… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
What do the animals do in the zoo? That's the same thing that I do in my cell. I play with myself.… — Charles Manson Copy Share Image
As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison,… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
I have spent 11 horrific years in solitary confinement in a 6-square-meter dungeon three floors underground without sunlight or fresh air. But… — Samir Geagea Copy Share Image
...a common observation, that few are mended by imprisonment, and that he, whose crimes have made confinement necessary, seldom makes any other… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It's strange when they near your cell. You lose all your strength and you are like this. You lose all your strength… — Sakae Menda Copy Share Image
When Private Bradley [aka Chelsea] Manning put his conscience ahead of his personal well-being by allegedly releasing important information to the world's… — Ray McGovern Copy Share Image
Please let us not interfere with the other's work or play, nor let the world see our private joys or disagreements. In… — Amelia Earhart Copy Share Image
You start to forget about the world outside - it's not relevant or relatable anymore. The darkest part of solitary confinement is… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
“For animals, the confinement of the body is the confinement of the whole being, but a person can choose freedom even when… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
Silence comes in two varieties: One that nourishes and comforts; another that chokes, smothers, and isolates. Solitary confinement is the worst kind… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
I grow ominously tired of official confinement. Thirty years have I served the Philistines, and my neck is not subdued to the… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
“Peri went to the window, gesturing out at the dragons, perched and flying, everywhere. "Safe, true, but how boring! How confining! How… — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
From the moment we are born, the world tends to have a box already built for us to fit inside. Our umbilical… — Paige Bradley Copy Share Image
Neurotic identity crises come when our defense mechanisms have been too successful and we're encapsulated in the fortress we have constructed with… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
There's a big difference between being alone and being lonely. And I'm guessing that once you've discovered this distinction you can't go… — Tiffanie DeBartolo Copy Share Image
I found solitary confinement the most forbidding aspect of prison life. There is no end and no beginning; there is only one's… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Could we say that the short short is to other kinds of fiction somewhat as the lyric is to other kinds of… — Irving Howe Copy Share Image
In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. The essential… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The refreshing pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinement of a sick-chamber, is above… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
The sole relief I am asking for is to be released from military prison after serving six years of confinement as a… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is… — Billie Holiday Copy Share Image
External objects produce decided effects upon the brain. A man shut up between four walls soon loses the power to associate words… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
Animal abuse is rampant in the U.S., right under everyone's eyes, for the entertainment of the public. The brutal confinement and pain… — Tippi Hedren Copy Share Image
Slowly I began to realize that the bells and the confinement, the crazy sequences, the age-segregation, the lack of privacy, the constant… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
It’s important that someone celebrate our existence," she objected amiably. "People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
The secret to responsible trust is acceptance. Acceptance is taking from God's hand absolutely anything He gives, looking into His face in… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
Every year, about 10 billion farm animals go through America's horrific factory farm system: cows, pigs, chickens, sheep, lamb. There, they are… — Jane Velez-Mitchell Copy Share Image
Most of them were murderers. But when I went there to talk, they were the nicest people. I did a reading. I… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
I worked 12 hours a day, seven days a week for years. Being a comic book artist is like sentencing yourself to… — Wally Wood Copy Share Image
Solitary confinement is too terrible a punishment to inflict on any human being, no matter what his crime. Hardened criminals in the… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
The state is the most destructive institution human beings have ever devised - a fire that, at best, can be controlled for… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image