Caged Quotes
84 quotes by 75 authors
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Human relationships are patterned and cross-patterned and restricted and limited and delimited and caged and freed again by the elaborate conventions, rules and games which…
— Peter Greenaway
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As for politics, I’m an anarchist. I hate governments and rules and fetters. Can’t stand caged animals. People must be free.
— Charlie Chaplin
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Men may dam it and say that they have made a lake, but it will still be a river. It will keep its nature and…
— Wendell Berry
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The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weaknesses of human nature. Yet how can anyone speak of it…
— Emma Goldman
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The Gospel is like a caged lion. It does not need to be defended, it just needs to be let out of its cage.
— Charles Spurgeon
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The Gospel is like a caged lion; you don't have to defend it - just let it out of the cage.
— Charles Spurgeon
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It would be ugly to watch people poking sticks at a caged rat. It is uglier still to watch rats poking sticks at a caged…
— Jean Harris
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I have read in books that we are called 'caged birds'. I cannot speak for others, but I had so much in this cage of…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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The zoo is a prison for animals who have been sentenced without trial and I feel guilty because I do nothing about it. I wanted…
— Russell Hoban
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Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger,…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I have been called a Rogue Elephant, a Cannibal Shark, and a crocodile. I am none the worse. I remain a caged, and rather sardonic,…
— Wyndham Lewis
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In the invincible and indescribable squalor of Harlem ... I was tormented. I felt caged, like an animal. I wanted to escape. I felt if…
— James A. Baldwin
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I felt caged by my childhood.
— Christina Aguilera
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We live like caged beasts waiting for the day to let the rage free.
— Tupac Shakur
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The rise of computer crime and armed robbery has not eliminated the lure of caged cash.
— James Chiles
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Who can estimate the wealth of worth caged in a little child?
— Evangeline Booth
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Some of the snowballs have a kind of animal energy. Not just because of the materials inside them, but in the way that they appear…
— Andy Goldsworthy
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The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.
— Germaine Greer
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The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged…
— Angelina Jolie
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The caged bird sings with a fearful trill, of things unknown, but longed for still, and his tune is heard on the distant hill, for…
— Maya Angelou
Who Wrote These Caged Quotes
75 authors contributed a total of 84 Caged Quotes, led by these top contributors: