Quotes about Confinement

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

There was no freedom in life, and certainly there was none in death.

A secret in his mouth, is like a wild bird put into a cage; whose door no sooner opens, but 'tis out.

he wonders whether young women raised under such restrictive conditions can ever overcome the disadvantage of deliberately engineered lacunae in their mental, moral, and emotional development. The

Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

Intelligence in chains loses in lucidity what it gains in intensity.

If you give a poor man an acre of land around his house, he will be pleased and stay there for life. Build a wall around that acre, however, and all he will want is to escape.

Be thine own palace or the world's thy jail.

The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But a tyrant spell has bound me, And I cannot, cannot go.

The Holy Spirit showed me that when I put up walls to keep others out I also wall myself into solitary place of confinement.

Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the poet to become tender and imaginitive in the loneliness of confinement. He banquets upon the honey of his own thoughts, and, like the captive bird, pours forth his soul in melody.

Propertied persons typically have large estates and freedom of movement through the society. At the same time, the property of the rich has the effect of crowding and confining the less propertied. The very poor are typically restricted to narrow geographical limits and are regarded as aliens outside them.