Confinement Quotes

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As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison, we continue to… — Julian Assange
Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties. — W L George
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… — Billie Holiday
Every writer must acknowledge and be able to handle the unalterable fact that he has, in effect, given himself a life sentence in solitary confinement.… — Peter Straub
Sometimes animals may suffer more because of their more limited understanding. If, for instance, we are taking prisoners in wartime we can explain to them… — Peter Singer
It's strange when they near your cell. You lose all your strength and you are like this. You lose all your strength as if a… — Sakae Menda
What do the animals do in the zoo? That's the same thing that I do in my cell. I play with myself. I make little… — Charles Manson
I worked 12 hours a day, seven days a week for years. Being a comic book artist is like sentencing yourself to life imprisonment at… — Wally Wood
The refreshing pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinement of a sick-chamber, is above the conceptions, as… — Ann Radcliffe
In tennis you're on an island. Of all the games men and women play, tennis is the closest to solitary confinement, — Andre Agassi
Most people acquire most of their knowledge outside school, and in school only insofar as school, in a few rich countries, has become their place… — Ivan Illich
Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits. — Robert Smithson
The state is the most destructive institution human beings have ever devised - a fire that, at best, can be controlled for only a short… — Robert Higgs
All the asylum clothing is made by the patients, but sewing does not employ one's mind. After several months' confinement the thoughts of the busy… — Nellie Bly
Neurotic identity crises come when our defense mechanisms have been too successful and we're encapsulated in the fortress we have constructed with nothing to refresh… — Sam Keen
All humans are essentially wild creatures and hate confinement. We need what is wild, and we thrill to it, our wildness bubbling over with an… — Jay Griffiths
I see Edward Snowden as someone who has chosen, at best, exile from the country he loves-with a serious risk of his assassination by agents… — Daniel Ellsberg
I also request that, starting today, you refer to me by my new name and use the feminine pronoun (except in official mail to the… — Chelsea Manning
I found solitary confinement the most forbidding aspect of prison life. There is no end and no beginning; there is only one's mind, which can… — Nelson Mandela
...a common observation, that few are mended by imprisonment, and that he, whose crimes have made confinement necessary, seldom makes any other use of his… — Samuel Johnson

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