Even painless research is fascism, supremacism, because the act of confinement is traumatizing in itself. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Research and writing are lonely occupations. It is easy to become discouraged in solitary confinement. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
How many persons condemned to the horrors of solitary confinement have gone mad - simply because the thinking faculties have lain dormant! — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
I breathed the air of deliverance through books, and through books I leapt over the walls of confinement.. — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
People aren't wired to be alone. Even in the stressful population of prison, solitary confinement is still considered a cruel punishment. — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
To some extent, all authors are a little schizophrenic. We lead most of our lives in solitary confinement, living and breathing the… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
If the Court were to extend its reach to the base, judges could begin managing conditions of confinement, interrogation methods, and the… — John Yoo Copy Share Image
We're all mad, the whole damned race. We're wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we're all mad and… — William Golding 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Shouldn't the American leadership be addressing what is happening in America, with its domestic policies on racism, discrimination, illegal monitoring, solitary confinement,… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
I was having an epiphany. A moment of supreme clarity, leading to what I dubbed a “realization of solitude” that goes like… — Tiffanie DeBartolo Copy Share Image
During this period (of technological confinement / [and language]) the human mind has been placed in its narrowest confines it has experienced… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
Some people may argue that if the animals are treated humanely prior to being slaughtered, this justifies their confinement and slaughter. Is… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
For while we are enclosed in these confinements of the body, we perform as a kind of duty the heavy task of… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Solitary confinement has been used extensively, it always has. I was in prison for 44 years; it was a normal part of… — Wilbert Rideau Copy Share Image
And I, who timidly hate life, fear death with fascination. I fear this nothingness that could be something else, and I fear… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Sometimes animals may suffer more because of their more limited understanding. If, for instance, we are taking prisoners in wartime we can… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
I also request that, starting today, you refer to me by my new name and use the feminine pronoun (except in official… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
Through pop music ideas, energies and resources can emerge that can help the audience release themselves from the unrelieving confinements of environment. — Paul Morley Copy Share Image
In tennis you're on an island. Of all the games men and women play, tennis is the closest to solitary confinement, — Andre Agassi Copy Share Image
It's a kind of liberation to break free in language, if you can break free, but it's also a confinement, because form… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
But man as a person, the same man, gains mastery over egocentric self-confinement by disclosing a universe in himself...Personality is a universe,… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
“Never say "I don't care"! We are all looking up to you. Dare to break the fence that confines you! Make it… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Realism is to fiction what gravity is to walking: a confinement that allows dancing under the right circumstances. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
He could have had his choice of any woman in the district. And he chose solitude. Not solitude – that sounds too… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“Break away from the box confining you. Positive dreamers do not follow the status quo. They keep raising the standard of the… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
The ramparts of Vienna are crumbling into the sand; no one wants to live so confined, however, the entire country is already… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
The premise of Kiss has always been to not live within the confinements and boundaries other people set for themselves. We set… — Paul Stanley Copy Share Image
We would consider it cruel to confine a dog permanently in a kennel. Yet we visit zoos where hundreds of wild animals… — Virginia McKenna Copy Share Image
Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties. — W. L. George Copy Share Image
If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope. — Florence King Copy Share Image
“The [human] animal cannot cope with [dense confinement]; indeed, it is programmed to resist it. It must resist it, in the interest… — John Livingston, from "Rogue Primate: An Investigation Into Human Domestication Copy Share Image
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