Confinement Quote by Robert A. Heinlein Download Open image “Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life.” — Robert A. Heinlein ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Confinement Life Men Prison Prisoner Solitary Solitary confinement
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
Every man is a prisoner, and the greatest irony of all is to be the prisoner of another man. — Sidney Sheldon Copy Share Image
You are all in jail. Each alone, solitary, with a heap of what he owns. You live in prison, die in prison. It is… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Freedom is an elusive concept. Some men hold themselves prisoner even when they have the power to do as they please and go where… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Only the individual who is solitary is like a thing placed under profound laws, and when he goes out into the morning that is just beginning, or looks out into the evening that is full of happening, and if he feels what is going on there, then all status drops from him as from a dead man, though he stands… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share
What sort of space is that which separates a man from his fellows and makes him solitary? — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Each man reserves to himself alone the right of being tedious. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one if I… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
If we blow ourselves up we will do it by misapplication of science; if we manage to keep from blowing ourselves up, it will… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Some people are ants by nature; they have to work, even when it’s useless. Few people have a talent for constructive laziness.” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from it. Anything that conflicts with the survival instinct acts sooner or later to eliminate the individual and thereby fails to show up in future generations. . . . A scientifically verifiable theory of morals must be rooted in the individual's instinct to survive--and nowhere… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share
“I tried to dig out of the computer a call directory for Luna. But it was still sulking. I could not get it to list its own directory. So I tried some test problems on it. It insisted that 2 + 2 = 3.99999999999999999999999… When I tried to get it to admit that 4 = 2 + 2, it became angry and claimed that 4 = 3.141592653589793238462643383279... So I gave up.” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
The novel is the dream release, the suspension of reality that history needs to escape its own brutal confinements. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Something in our nature cries out to be loved by another. Isolation is devastating to the human psyche. That is why solitary confinement is… — Gary Chapman 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 our own… — Paul Stanley 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
The secret to responsible trust is acceptance. Acceptance is taking from God's hand absolutely anything He gives, looking into His face in trust and… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
During this period (of technological confinement / [and language]) the human mind has been placed in its narrowest confines it has experienced since consciousness emerged from its Paleolithic phase. Even the most primitive tribes have a larger vision of the universe, of our place and functioning within it, a vision that extends to celestial regions of space and to interior… — Thomas Berry Copy Share
As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison, we continue… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
Needle and thread flesh and bone Spit and sinew, heartbreak is home. Your suture lines, they sparkle like diamonds Bright stars to light my… — Gayle Forman 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
Even painless research is fascism, supremacism, because the act of confinement is traumatizing in itself. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
In relating the circumstances which have led to my confinement within this refuge for the demented, I am aware that my present position will… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
